In the golden autumn, hawthorns ripen. Eating some sour and sweet hawthorns not only supplements nutrition but also aids digestion and strengthens the stomach. Hawthorns are rich in vitamins and minerals, especially lipase which can promote the digestion of fatty foods. According to traditional Chinese medicine, hawthorn has the effects of eliminating food accumulation, stopping dysentery, and activating blood circulation to remove blood stasis. Hawthorn is sour in taste, so it takes some knowledge to buy sweeter ones. To choose delicious hawthorns, you can consider five aspects: shape, spots on the skin, origin, flesh color, and flesh texture. When selecting, any one of these five methods will suffice. The taste of hawthorn is sour, so people with excessive gastric acid and the elderly should drink hawthorn-infused water or cook porridge with hawthorn instead of eating it directly. Hawthorn brown sugar water and hawthorn wolfberry porridge not only offset the sourness but also aid digestion and strengthen the stomach, achieving both nutrition and taste. Related thematic articles: Eating too many wild vegetables may harm health: water shield and locust flowers may cause allergies; Acupuncture for weight loss - what are the effects and principles? Weight loss and old TCM health preservation website.