Can green dates be cooked and eaten?

You should often use red dates to soak in water or stew soup, because red dates themselves have a very high blood-replenishing effect, so they have a good tonic effect on some women who suffer from anemia for a long time. As the predecessor of red dates, green dates also have high nutritional and medicinal value. However, green dates are usually eaten raw as fruit. So can they be cooked?

Introduction of Green Dates

1. Introduction

Green jujube is an excellent rare tropical and subtropical fruit. Taiwan green dates are rich in nutrients, crisp, sweet and delicious. They contain a large amount of vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin B, carotene, etc. They are known as "vitamin pills" and there is a saying that "eating three dates a day will make you immortal." Because of its beautiful shape and the flavors of apple, pear and date, Taiwan green dates are also known as "tropical little apples".

How to eat green dates

After washing, the green dates can be eaten directly without peeling.

How to eat green dates

1. Green Date Soup: Add appropriate amount of water to 4 to 5 green dates and cook briefly. Use a spoon to crush the dates. Add a little rock sugar and cook for another 10 minutes. This soup is nourishing and suitable for drinking in dry weather to relieve internal heat. You can also add snow fungus, almonds, roses, etc. to this soup according to your preference.

2. Take 30g of green dates, 15g each of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, and decoct them into a soup for drinking. This soup dispels wind and clears heat, and is suitable for treating wind-heat colds and other symptoms.

3. Green Date Porridge: 50g green dates, 15 shelled ginkgo nuts, 15g almonds, appropriate amount of rock sugar, 100g washed polished rice, add 1000ml water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until it becomes porridge. This porridge moistens the lungs, relieves asthma, and reduces inflammation and relieves sore throat.

4. Cook porridge with green dates and lilies and drink it after dinner to shorten the time it takes to fall asleep.

Wash 100g green dates, 100g polished rice and 100g fresh yam. Slice the yam and add water to cook porridge. This porridge strengthens the spleen and replenishes Qi, nourishes the kidneys and improves essence. It can enhance the resistance and immunity of middle-aged and elderly people and can be consumed in any amount in the morning or evening.

Who can't eat green dates? What should you pay attention to?

1. Who should not eat green dates?

1. Patients with excessive phlegm and dampness

Such people often have thick and greasy tongue coating, sweet or greasy mouth, loss of appetite, and a bloated stomach. In severe cases, they may also have symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and swelling of the eyelids and face. The nourishing and greasy nature of jujube can easily promote dampness, making phlegm and dampness remain in the body and difficult to eliminate, thereby aggravating the above discomfort. People with this constitution are more suitable to eat foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as coix seed, red bean, yam, and loofah.

2. People who love fire

People who are prone to getting angry have a hot constitution and often experience symptoms of getting angry such as constipation, bad breath, and swollen and painful throat and gums. Jujubes are sweet and warm in nature and tend to be warming and tonic. If consumed in large quantities, they will make the symptoms of getting angry worse, like adding fuel to the fire.

3. Patients with early stage of cold

In the early stages of a cold, the wind-cold or wind-heat that invade the human body are at their peak. If you eat jujubes at this time, their sticky nature will often cause the evil to stagnate, resulting in the consequence of "keeping the enemy inside the door", making it difficult to expel the disease in the body and not conducive to recovery.

4. Diabetes patients

Jujubes contain a lot of sugar, which can increase the blood sugar level in diabetic patients and aggravate their condition. Therefore, people with high blood sugar should not eat more dates.

5. It is not suitable to eat red dates during menstruation

It is not suitable for women to eat red dates during menstruation, especially those with heavy moisture in the body and symptoms of edema. Dates taste sweet and sour. Eating more dates will promote saliva secretion, and moisture will accumulate in the body, making the edema more serious. Women who are prone to edema should eat more foods that remove dampness and promote diuresis. Eating red dates during menstruation will cause excessive menstrual flow. Generally, you should start eating red dates after your menstrual period. Women with hot constitution are not suitable to drink red dates water during menstruation, as it will cause excessive menstruation.

2. Suitable groups for Qingzao

Green dates can be eaten by the general population. Green dates are especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, teenagers and women.

3. Taboos on eating green dates

1. Do not eat rotten or spoiled green dates. When the green dates rot, microorganisms will multiply. The fruit acid enzyme in the green dates will continue to decompose pectin to produce pectin acid and methanol, and methanol can be further decomposed to produce formaldehyde and methanol. Eating rotten green dates can cause dizziness and eye damage at the mildest, or even life-threatening.

2. It should not be consumed at the same time as vitamins. The vitamins in green dates can decompose and destroy vitamin K, thereby reducing its therapeutic effect.

3. It should not be eaten with cucumber or radish. Radishes contain ascorbic acid enzymes and cucumbers contain vitamin-degrading enzymes, both of which can destroy vitamins in other foods.

4. It should not be consumed at the same time as animal liver. Animal livers are rich in elements such as copper and iron. Copper and iron ions can easily oxidize the vitamins contained in other foods and cause them to lose their effectiveness.

5. It is forbidden to eat when taking antipyretic drugs. Taking antipyretic drugs while eating high-sugar foods can easily form insoluble complexes, reducing the initial absorption rate. Green dates are foods with high sugar content, so they are taboo to be eaten.

6. It should not be consumed when taking bitter stomachic or carminative stomachic medicines. Bitter and carminative stomachic drugs rely on the bitter taste of the drugs to stimulate the taste organs, reflexively increasing the excitability of food to the central nervous system to help digestion and increase appetite. If you take green dates while taking the above medicines, it will obviously affect the efficacy of the medicines.

7. People with tooth decay pain, lower abdominal distension, and constipation should not eat it. Avoid eating it with onions and fish.