Bananas are nutrient-rich tropical fruits, with a sweet taste and cool nature, and have the effect of moistening the intestines and clearing heat. Every summer is its ripening season.
1. Pineapple: Issue - Some people may experience nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, numbness of the lips, and skin itching after eating pineapple. This is due to the presence of bio-glycosides and bromelain in pineapples. To prevent allergic reactions, pineapple should be soaked in light salt water for more than ten minutes to destroy the bromelain before eating.
Nutritionist: Pineapple belongs to tropical fruits and contains rich dietary fiber and bromelain, which are very beneficial for preventing constipation and indigestion, making it a good choice for summer fruits. As the weather gradually warms up, we will see vendors selling pineapples gradually disappear. Many merchants use fiberglass filled with salt water to soak pineapples, and each piece of pineapple has a chopstick inserted. Here's a reminder: consider how long the saltwater in the fiberglass hasn't been changed? Are the chopsticks new? This not only fails hygiene standards but also causes secondary pollution.
2. Banana: Issue - In order to make the banana peel look tender and yellow, some unscrupulous vendors use excessive sulfur dioxide to ripen them, but the fruit still feels hard and not sweet at all. Sulfur dioxide is harmful to the human body.
Solution: The correct method should be heating and fumigation.
Nutritionist: Bananas are nutrient-rich tropical fruits, with a sweet taste and cool nature, and have the effect of moistening the intestines and clearing heat. Every summer is its ripening season.
3. Grape: Issue - Some unscrupulous vendors and farmers dilute the ripening agent ethylene with water, then immerse the unripe green grapes into the diluted solution. After one or two days, the green grapes turn into purple grapes.
Nutritionist: Every August and September is the grape ripening season. Grapes have a sweet and slightly sour taste, neutral nature, and possess the effects of replenishing blood and qi, strengthening tendons and bones, and promoting urination. Its sugar content is relatively high, so diabetics should remember to eat sparingly.
4. Strawberry: Benefit - According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, strawberries have the effects of reducing internal heat, relieving summer heat, and clearing heat. In spring, people often have strong liver fire, eating strawberries can play an inhibitory role. Additionally, strawberries are best eaten after meals because they contain large amounts of pectin and fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, improve constipation, and prevent hemorrhoids and colon cancer.
Issue - Strawberries that are hollow in the middle, irregular in shape, and overly large, apart from a few being high-yield new varieties, are generally caused by excessive hormone use. After using ripening agents or other hormonal drugs, the growth cycle of strawberries shortens, their color becomes more vivid, but the inherent aroma of strawberries is diluted, and they lack fresh flavor when eaten.
Nutritionist: Strawberries are very attractive fruits with a very high vitamin C content. Eating fresh strawberries is a good choice. The natural maturity period of strawberries is late May every year.
5. Sugarcane: Issue - Most sugarcane in spring are leftovers from autumn. After being stored for a whole winter, it easily deteriorates, and white fluffy or hairy substances appear at the end of the sugarcane. After cutting open, there will be red thread-like substances on the cross-section.
Harm - Some people do not carefully select sugarcane when buying, and upon cutting it open, seeing the red thread-like substance, they assume it's normal and end up consuming it, leading to sugarcane poisoning.
Nutritionist: Sugarcane is an excellent "fire-reducing" food, with a sweet taste and cool nature, having the effects of clearing heat, generating body fluid, lowering qi, moisturizing dryness, harmonizing stomach, and reversing qi. The mature season of sugarcane is in November. Due to improper storage, sugarcane can mold, and immature sugarcane can also mold after being cut down.
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