A Detailed Guide to the Ripening Time and Harvest Period of Fragrant Crisp Plums
Fragrant Crisp plums generally ripen in June-July. Their flesh is sweet and tart, and with one bite the juice splashes everywhere, making you want to eat more. And eating Fragrant Crisp plums in moderation also has the following benefits:
1. Promotes digestion
Plums can promote the secretion of gastric acid and gastric digestive enzymes, and have the effect of increasing gastrointestinal motility. Therefore, eating plums can promote digestion and increase appetite, making them an excellent food therapy for people with insufficient gastric acid, post-meal bloating, and constipation.
2. Promotes salivation and quenches thirst
It treats conditions such as yin deficiency with internal heat, bone-steaming consumptive fever, excessive thirst with frequent drinking, damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, ascites, and difficult urination.
3. Clears the liver and promotes water metabolism
Fresh plum flesh contains a variety of amino acids, such as glutamine, serine, glycine, and proline. Eating it raw is highly beneficial for treating cirrhosis with ascites.
4. Lowers blood pressure, promotes bowel movements, and relieves cough
Plum kernels contain amygdalin and a large amount of fatty oil. Pharmacology has confirmed that they have a significant effect of promoting water metabolism and lowering blood pressure, and can speed up intestinal peristalsis and promote the excretion of dry stool. They also have the effect of relieving cough and reducing phlegm.
5. Beauty and skin care
According to “Compendium of Materia Medica”, plum blossoms mixed into facial creams have a very good beauty effect, able to “remove facial blemishes and dark spots” and “make the face radiant”, and have good effects on tinea versicolor and dark spots on the face.
The general population can eat Fragrant Crisp plums, but it should be noted that pears contain more fruit acid, and eating too much can easily cause stomach pain. People with stomach conditions such as gastric ulcers and gastritis should eat them with caution.