When do mulberries ripen in northern China?
Mulberries are sweet and sour and tasty, can be eaten directly, and have health-preserving benefits. But the mulberry fruit's ripening period is very short; if you miss it, you have to wait until the next year. So when do mulberries ripen in northern China?
1. When do mulberries ripen in northern China?
Mulberries generally ripen from April to June. From Hainan Island to Heilongjiang, the mulberry ripening period goes in order: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August. In the south the ripening time is a bit earlier, and in the north the ripening time is a bit later.
2. How should mulberries be eaten?
1. Eaten directly: washing fresh mulberries clean with water and eating them directly is the simplest method.
2. Mulberry paste: take 1000 grams of fresh mulberries and 300 grams of honey, blend the mulberries into juice, simmer (avoiding an iron pot) into a thin paste, then add the honey and simmer together until thick, and after it cools, place it in the refrigerator to chill and take it as needed.
3. Mulberry wine: take 1500 grams of fresh mulberries and 1500 milliliters of low-alcohol liquor or red wine. Wash the fresh mulberries, crush them and squeeze out the juice, then pour the fruit juice into the liquor, stir well and take it in divided doses.
4. Cooking mulberry porridge: if the patient has anemia, 50 grams of fresh mulberries, 30 grams of longan, 50 grams of peanuts, and 25 grams each of glutinous rice and purple rice can be cooked together into porridge to eat. This mulberry porridge also has therapeutic effects for people with premature graying of hair, women during menstruation, people with weakness and fatigue after illness, and people with habitual constipation. Note that when cooking this porridge, do not use an iron pot.
3. Precautions for eating mulberries
1. Mulberries and iron: mulberries cannot be simmered together with iron products; if mulberries are simmered in an iron pot, it will cause the person eating them to be poisoned, and people with diabetes should certainly not eat mulberries.
2. Mulberries and duck eggs: when taking mulberry fruit, one must not eat duck eggs; eating them together will cause stomach cancer.
3. Children eating mulberries: children had best not eat too many mulberries, because mulberries will inhibit the body's absorption of trace elements such as iron and zinc; children eating too many mulberries may even trigger poisoning.
4. With cold-natured foods: mulberries are cold in nature, so it is best not to eat them together with cold-natured foods; eating too much cold food all at once may be more than the body can take, for example eating them together with cold-natured foods such as bitter melon, loofah, water chestnut, lily bulb, lotus root, mung beans, duck, and shrimp.
When eating mulberries, it is best to soak them in salt water to kill the fruit worms in them, and it can also wash away pesticide residue. Although mulberries are sweet, sour, and delicious, you cannot eat too many at one time, and they cannot be stored for very long, so it is best not to buy too many at once.