What is yellow fruit

I believe everyone is familiar with kumquat. Kumquat is a very common fruit. Kumquat is rich in nutrients. Kumquat contains rich vitamins and a variety of trace elements needed by the human body. Eating kumquat often can also have good health effects and health benefits. Kumquat is not only edible but also medicinal, so kumquat is a fruit that can be used as both medicine and food.

Eating kumquat regularly can bring us a healthy body. Kumquat has the benefits of helping digestion and strengthening the stomach. Eating kumquat regularly can also help promote qi and relieve pain. Eating kumquat in summer can help relieve heat.

Kumquat, also known as: yellow bullet, yellow peel, yellow loquat, yellow bullet, and king tan. Latin name: Clausena lansium (Lour.) Skeels. It is a plant of the Rutaceae family and the genus Xanthoceras. The fruit is golden in color, shiny and bright. According to its nature and flavor, it can be divided into sweet and sour systems. Some varieties are sweet and sour, juicy and fragrant. It is a fruit with excellent color, fragrance and taste, and can be called as lychee. The leaves, root bark and fruit core are all used for medicinal purposes. A folk proverb says: "Eat lychees when you are hungry and eat tangerine peel when you are full", which means that tangerine peel can help digestion.

Kumquat also has high medicinal value. Its leaves, fruits and seeds can be used as medicine. It has the effects of helping food and strengthening the stomach, regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, promoting qi and relieving pain. There is a saying that "eat lychees when you are hungry and eat kumquat when you are full". The peel can eliminate edema and malnutrition; the seeds can treat hernia, centipede bites and head sores in children.

The seeds of the kumquat are rich in oil, with an oil yield of up to 42%, making them an excellent lubricant. As a high-quality fruit, the kumquat can be eaten fresh, processed into jelly, jam, candied fruit, fruit cake, and refreshing drinks, or salted or candied. Therefore, kumquat is known as the "treasure among fruits" among the people.

When eating kumquats in summer, you can chew the flesh, peel and core in your mouth and swallow them together with the residue and juice. Although it tastes a bit bitter, it can reduce heat, treat indigestion and stomach bloating.

When traveling to the suburbs in summer, the heat is oppressive. It is best to bring some kumquats with you, especially the bitter ones. When you are thirsty or feel uncomfortable with the heat in your head, chew a few kumquats. It can not only promote salivation and quench thirst, but also prevent heatstroke.

Fruit flavor: sweet, sour, warm, slightly bitter and spicy. It is rich in vitamin C, sugar, organic acid and pectin; the peel and leaves contain volatile oils, and the leaves contain phenols, flavonoids and amino acids; the bark contains berberine, phellodendron alkali, terpenoid alkali and other biological alkaloids, sterols, mucilage and phenolic components. The fruit has the effects of digesting food, resolving phlegm and regulating qi. It is used to treat symptoms such as indigestion, chest fullness and pain, phlegm and cough, and can relieve depression and heat, and regulate hernia pain. The leaves are pungent and cool in nature, and have the effects of dispersing wind and relieving exterior symptoms, removing phlegm and promoting qi circulation. It is used to prevent and treat influenza, fever due to febrile diseases, cough and asthma, abdominal pain due to water swelling, malaria, difficulty urinating, heat toxins, scabies and other symptoms; the roots can treat gas pain and hernia pain.

Above we introduced what kumquat is. We know that kumquat is a common fruit. Kumquat is rich in nutrients. Eating kumquat often can bring us health and wellness benefits. Kumquat is not only edible but also medicinal. The above article introduces in detail the medicinal value and edible value of kumquat.