Introduction: A year's plan starts with spring, and so does skincare. If you want to stay young and vibrant in the new year, you need to strengthen your body's care in the warm spring. By eating the right seasonal beauty foods, you can nourish your body and achieve beauty imperceptibly.
Spring is the season of renewal, and various fruits exclusive to this season are also beginning to appear on the market. These fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, and antioxidants, which can nourish the body, promote metabolism, increase the body's resistance and immunity, and have the effects of health preservation, nourishment, and disease prevention.
So, in spring, what fruits are your best choice for both beauty and health?
Starfruit
Brightening & Lightening Spots + Hydration
Starfruit contains a lot of fruit acid. The fruit acid it contains can inhibit the cohesion of keratinocytes and melanin deposition, effectively removing or lightening dark spots. Moreover, fruit acid can further soften the stratum corneum, promote skin metabolism, accelerate the skin renewal process, make the newly generated cells in the deeper layer more active, and effectively reduce wrinkles and fine lines.
Starfruit also has an unexpected moisturizing effect, which can prevent the loss of moisture in facial skin, making the skin moist and shiny, restoring a youthful and beautiful appearance.
The abundant juice and fiber in starfruit can promote salivation to quench thirst, quickly replenish the body's fluids, and help expel internal heat or alcohol toxins from the body through urine, which is beneficial for clearing dryness and moistening the intestines, eliminating fatigue. The large amount of oxalic acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., in starfruit juice can increase the acidity of gastric juice and help promote food digestion.
Starfruit Orange Juice
Cherry
Qi Nourishing & Beauty Enhancing
Cherry, also known as Ying Tao, Han Tao, or Jing Tao, is the earliest fruit to hit the market, known as the "first branch of spring fruits." Cherries are brightly colored, thick-fleshed, delicious, and juicy. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cherries are warm in nature, slightly sweet and sour in taste, and all parts of the plant can be used as medicine. The fresh fruit has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, regulating Qi and enhancing complexion, strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach.
Cherries are rich in nutrients, and their iron content is particularly outstanding, far exceeding that of citrus, pears, and apples, ranking first among fruits. Because cherries are extremely rich in iron, eating them often can supplement the body's need for iron, help promote the regeneration of hemoglobin, and make the skin ruddy, tender, and white, reduce wrinkles and spots, and maintain beauty. Therefore, cherries have been called "beauty fruits" since ancient times.
Apple
Top Choice for Beauty
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that abnormal facial complexion is an external manifestation of the body's imbalance of Qi, blood, Yin, and Yang. For example: the heart "its glory is on the face," and if heart Qi is deficient, the complexion is pale and lusterless. Apples have the effect of tonifying the heart and Qi, and can "beautify the face" and "enhance complexion." Apples can also expression lines, helping women achieve a beauty and skincare effect, making the skin more moist and beautiful.
Apples contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, fats, sugars, and other essential nutrients for the human body, which can help eliminate harmful lead and mercury elements from the body. The fresh fragrance of apples can also help people refresh their minds and relieve tension. Therefore, it is a good idea to eat more apples in spring.
Apples are also known as "the first medicine of doctors." This is because apples are sweet and cool in nature, entering the lung and spleen meridians, and have health-preserving effects such as tonifying the spleen Qi, nourishing the stomach Yin, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, nourishing the heart and moistening the lungs, and sobering up and calming the liver. Eating more apples can improve the function of the respiratory system and lungs, and also has a good health-care effect on the cardiovascular system. Spring is prone to colds, and red apples can help the body resist cold viruses and accelerate recovery from illness.
Cherry Jam
Cashew
Aging Prevention & Anti-aging
As one of the four major nuts, cashews are not only delicious but also have the effects of preventing and treating diseases and delaying aging. Cashews are rich in B vitamins, which have a good therapeutic effect on loss of appetite, heart failure, lower limb edema, and various inflammation that occur in spring. Cashews are also rich in vitamin A, which can prevent night blindness, xerophthalmia, and skin keratosis, and can also enhance the body's disease resistance and prevent cancer.
Cashews also contain linoleic acid, which can prevent heart disease, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, it can be said that cashews are a rare longevity food.
Strawberry
Aging Prevention & Anti-cancer
Strawberries are often called "love fruits" because their shape resembles a heart and they are bright red. Because they are fresh, tender, red, skinless, seedless, soft, juicy, sweet and sour with a rich aroma, they are a rare fruit that excels in color, aroma, and taste, so people also praise them as the "queen of fruits."
A cup of strawberries can provide 130% of the daily required vitamin C. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can promote the generation of collagen fibers, keeping the skin smooth and firm. The more vitamin C, the fewer fine lines: women with insufficient vitamin C intake are more likely to have dry, wrinkled skin. Ellagic acid, which is abundant in strawberries, can also protect the skin's elastic fibers and prevent skin sagging.
Strawberries contain various fruit acids, which can whiten and increase skin elasticity, making the skin moist and hydrated, and are more suitable for oily skin.
Regular consumption of strawberries has health benefits for both hair and skin. Moreover, strawberries are low in sugar and calories, which helps with weight loss, making them an excellent beauty fruit. The nutrients in strawberries are easily digested and absorbed by the body, and eating more will not cause coldness or internal heat, making them a healthy food suitable for all ages.
Cashew Four Treasures Vegetable
Chestnut
Nourishing the Stomach & Spleen
Chestnut, also known as Chinese chestnut, is known as the "king of dried fruits." This is because chestnuts are not only fragrant and delicious but also rich in protein, fat, B vitamins, and other nutrients, and have been regarded as a precious fruit since ancient times. At the same time, chestnuts also have high medicinal value. Its nourishing function for the human body can be compared with ginseng, astragalus, and angelica.
Regular consumption of chestnuts can nourish the blood and beautify the complexion, restoring a ruddy complexion. Moreover, the unsaturated fatty acids and various vitamins in chestnuts have the effect of preventing and treating hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. Chestnuts are delicious and nourishing, but you should not eat too much at once, otherwise it will be difficult to digest and may block the intestines and stomach.
Pineapple
Blood Pressure Reduction & Weight Loss
Pineapple, also known as Ananas, has a lot of juice and a delicious, unique flavor, enjoying the reputation of "king of canned food." Pineapple is neutral in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and rich in carbohydrates, fats, proteins, as well as carotene, niacin, ascorbic acid, and dietary fiber. Pineapple also contains almost all the vitamins the human body needs, as well as more than ten kinds of natural minerals, making it extremely nutritious.
The protease in pineapple can effectively break down protein in food, increase gastrointestinal motility, increase appetite, and help digestion and absorption. Pineapple can help with weight loss because it is rich in juice, which can effectively break down fat. The rich vitamin B in pineapple can effectively nourish the skin, prevent dryness and chapping, and moisten the hair; drinking fresh pineapple juice often can eliminate age spots and reduce the rate of their formation, which is beneficial for beauty.
The circulation-promoting enzymes in pineapple can lower blood pressure, dilute blood lipids, and prevent fat deposition.
Pineapple Fried Rice
Loquat
Clearing the Lungs & Harmonizing the Stomach
Loquat, also known as Lu Ju, Jin Wan, or Pipa Guo, is a famous traditional fruit in China, named after its leaves, which resemble the traditional Chinese instrument, the pipa. Loquats are fragrant, fresh, sweet, slightly sour, with soft flesh and an excellent flavor, known as the "three friends" along with cherries and plums, with the "three pools" in Anhui being the most famous.
Loquat is slightly cool in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and contains various nutrients needed by the human body such as protein, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, etc., making it extremely nutritious. Loquat contains a large amount of carotene, which can protect vision and the skin. The fruit acid and citric acid in loquats can stimulate the secretion of digestive glands, promote appetite, and help digestion and absorption.
Loquat also contains polyphenols with antioxidant effects, which can prevent cancer and delay aging. The unique component amygdalin in loquat can moisten the lungs, relieve coughs, and reduce phlegm, treating various types of coughs.
Because of its high sugar content, diabetics should avoid eating loquat. Eating too much loquat can easily promote dampness and produce phlegm, leading to subsequent phlegm-heat, so it should not be consumed in excess; those with spleen deficiency and diarrhea should avoid it. Loquat kernels are toxic and should not be eaten.
Goji Berry
Blood Pressure Reduction & Liver Tonification
Goji berry is the mature fruit of a small shrub in the Solanaceae family, Lycium barbarum. It can be eaten as a nut and is also a highly effective traditional Chinese medicine. In spring, the young stems and leaves of goji, commonly known as goji shoots, are a very nutritious vegetable and can also be eaten as a health supplement.
Goji berries contain more than ten kinds of amino acids, as well as special nutrients such as zeaxanthin, physalien, and betaine, making them a top-grade nourishing food. Goji berries are rich in carotene, vitamin A, B1, B2, C, and calcium, iron, and other nutrients essential for eye health, so they have the effect of improving eyesight.
Goji berries also have the effect of improving the body's immunity, can tonify Qi and strengthen essence, nourish the liver and kidneys, quench thirst, warm the body, and anti-aging. Regular consumption of goji berries in spring can also lower blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar, prevent atherosclerosis, protect the liver, and promote liver cell regeneration.
Goji berries are relatively mild in nature and can be eaten by most people without any problem, but not excessively. Generally, goji berries should not be eaten with too many warm-natured tonics such as longan and red dates.
Loquat Jam
The cashew bouquet
Cream jam
Cherry jam
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