Homemade hawthorn candied fruit

Effect of hawthorn

Hawthorn can prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. It has the effects of dilating blood vessels, strengthening the heart, increasing coronary blood flow, improving heart vitality, exciting the central nervous system, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels, diuretic and sedation; preventing and treating arteriosclerosis, preventing aging, and anti-cancer.
Hawthorn acid also has heart-strengthening effects and is also beneficial to elderly heart disease. It can appetize and digest food, especially for eliminating the stagnation of meat. Hawthorn is used in many medicines to aid digestion.
Hawthorn has the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, helps relieve local congestion, and has an auxiliary effect on traumatic injuries.
Hawthorn has a contracting effect on the uterus, has a stimulating effect when pregnant women are in labor, and can promote postpartum uterine recovery.
The flavonoids, vitamin C, carotene and other substances contained in hawthorn can block and reduce the production of free radicals, enhance the body's immunity, and have anti-aging and anti-cancer effects. Hawthorn has ingredients to relieve asthma and phlegm, inhibit bacteria, and treat abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Suitable crowd:
Suitable for all ages. Do not eat on an empty stomach if you secrete too much gastric acid. There is no limit to others.

Note: fasting in pregnant women may easily promote uterine contractions and induce miscarriage

Hawthorn cannot be eaten on an empty stomach:
Hawthorn contains a large amount of organic acids, fruit acids, hawthorn acid, citric acid, etc. When eaten on an empty stomach, it will cause a surge in gastric acid, cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa, make the stomach bloated and pantothenic acid. If eaten on an empty stomach, it will enhance hunger. Feeling and exacerbating the original stomach pain.

Eat less raw hawthorn
The tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn combines with gastric acid to easily form gastrolith, which is difficult to digest. If beastles cannot be digested for a long time, they can cause gastric ulcers, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation. Therefore, you should try to eat less raw hawthorn, especially people with weak gastrointestinal function should be more cautious. Doctors suggest that it is best to cook the hawthorn before eating it.

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Do not take it in patients with hyperacidity, peptic ulcers and dental caries, indigestion, cardiovascular disease patients, cancer patients, enteritis patients, and during taking tonic drugs. Take it carefully for those with weak spleen and stomach.

Food is opposed
Hawthorn should not be eaten together with seafood, ginseng and lemon.

Hawthorn purchasing principles

1. Fruit shape. Hawthorn is oblate and sour, but is almost round and sweet. 2. Fruit points. There is a little more on the hawthorn skin. Fruit spots are dense and rough and sour, small and smooth and sweet.
3. Origin. Sour from Shandong and Northeast China; sweet and sour from Hebei and Henan are moderate.
4. The color of the flesh. The flesh is white, yellow or red sweet; green and sour.
5. The texture of the flesh. Soft but sweet; hard but dense and sour. When selecting, you can choose one of the five methods.