- March 09,2023
Grapefruit is useful. Chinese medicine believes that grapefruit is sweet, sour, and cold in nature. Modern medical research has shown that pomelo meat is rich in vitamin C and insulin-like ingredients, so it lowers blood sugar, blood lipids, reduces weight, and improves skin. Regular use has an auxiliary therapeutic effect in diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and atherosclerosis, and has function of strengthening body and beauty in obese people. Grapefruit also has a strengthening effect on stomach, nourishes lungs, nourishes blood, cleanses intestines and facilitates defecation, can promote wound healing and has a good auxiliary effect in sepsis. In addition, grapefruit contains physiologically active substance dermoside, which can reduce blood viscosity and reduce thrombosis, so it also has a good preventive effect in cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and stroke. Fresh pomelo meat is an ideal food for diabetics as it contains insulin-like ingredients. Therefore, eating more grapefruit has many benefits.
Grapefruit Practice Ingredients
Get all materials ready
First, rinse peel of pomelo with water, rub it with salt, rinse, and then use a knife to remove skin from grapefruit. It should be thinner, only yellow layer is needed, because white part will be a little bitter.
Scrub grapefruit peel with salt, then rinse with clean water. Then soak in salt water for more than an hour, you can soak for a longer time, (I soaked for one night)
Take it out and rinse with clean water. After rinsing, you can rub it hard, then soak it in salt water for more than ten minutes, and then rinse. This step can be repeated several times because it can remove sourness of grapefruit
Take out soaked pomelo skin, put it in a saucepan and boil in salt water for ten minutes, then take it out and rinse with clean water;
Cut washed grapefruit peel into small pieces, about 1 cm in size
Soak in water for ten minutes or more;
Remove and drain
Tear apart flesh of grapefruit and set aside
Place chopped pomelo skin and pureed pulp in a clean, oil-free saucepan, add a small bowl of water and rock sugar, and cook for 1-2 hours over medium-low heat until mixture thickens and pomelo skin thickens. golden and translucent. Remember to stir frequently while boiling to avoid sticking to pot.
After cooking and gluing, pour and let cool
After cooling, add honey and mix well to make a honey citron tea. Place it in an airtight container and refrigerate to cool. It can be eaten within a week. With honey impregnation, the taste will become sweeter and sweeter
