What are the benefits and effects of winter jujube, and will eating too many cause internal heat?

Winter jujube (also known as Yanlaihong, apple jujube, rock sugar jujube, Huanghua winter jujube, Miaoshang winter jujube, and Zhanhua winter jujube. Winter jujube usually ripens naturally between October and November on the Gregorian calendar, and because the weather in the north turns cold relatively early, it got the name “winter jujube.” So what are the benefits and effects of winter jujube? What happens if you eat too many winter jujubes? Will they cause internal heat?

1. Benefits and effects of winter jujube

1. Detoxification and liver protection

Jujube contains abundant sugars, vitamin C, and cyclic adenosine monophosphate, among other substances. It can reduce liver damage caused by various chemical drugs, promote the liver's synthesis of protein, increase serum hemoglobin and albumin levels, adjust the albumin-to-globulin ratio, and lower serum alanine aminotransferase levels. Clinically, jujube can be used as an adjunctive treatment for chronic hepatitis and early-stage cirrhosis.

2. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease

In addition to being rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, winter jujube also contains relatively high amounts of vitamin A, vitamin E, potassium, sodium, iron, copper, and other trace elements. It is very beneficial for strengthening capillaries, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and resisting atherosclerosis. Winter jujube also contains rutin, and rutin is an effective medicine for treating hypertension, so it is greatly helpful for the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease, hypertension, and atherosclerosis.

3. Regulating the immune system

Modern scientists have also found that winter jujube contains relatively high levels of substances such as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (CAMP). CAMP is an important physiologically active substance that participates in many physiological activities in the human body. It can regulate the immune system and has the effects of enhancing myocardial contractility, protecting the coronary arteries, lowering cholesterol, and inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells.

2. What happens if you eat too many winter jujubes? Will they cause internal heat?

Winter jujube should not be eaten in large amounts. Winter jujube is rich in nutrients and contains many nutrients essential to the human body, and their content is also quite high, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and so on. Although winter jujube is good, it is not suitable to eat too much; winter jujube should be eaten in moderation.

Eating winter jujube will not cause internal heat.

Although winter jujube has a sweet taste, its sweetness is mainly provided by fructose, and the content is not very high either. Compared with red jujube, its sugar content is actually higher, so eating winter jujube will not cause internal heat.

Although winter jujube is a new variety grafted from red jujube, because its ripening season is much later than that of red jujube, its properties have changed somewhat. Red jujube is a warming fruit, while winter jujube is a neutral fruit. People with either a cold constitution or a hot constitution can eat winter jujube, and eating too much will not cause internal heat.

Winter jujube is neutral in nature and suitable for anyone to eat, but winter jujube is relatively sticky and greasy and digests rather slowly in the stomach. Eating a large amount can easily accumulate in the stomach and cause indigestion, and over time it can easily form stomach stones.

Even more attention should be paid to eating winter jujubes that come on the market early. Early-market winter jujubes are all unripe winter jujubes and are not that sweet in taste. If you eat winter jujubes with a very strong sweetness early in the season, then they are abnormal winter jujubes, most likely injected with sodium cyclamate, and should not be eaten in excess. Eating too many in a short time can harm the liver and kidneys, and long-term consumption has a carcinogenic effect.

Children should not eat excessive amounts of jujube. What happens if children eat too many jujubes? Pediatric disease experts point out that jujube is sticky and greasy and not easy to digest, while children's spleen and stomach functions are very weak, so excessive consumption by children will cause indigestion and loss of appetite. In addition, the sugar content in jujube is very high, and excessive consumption by children can cause tooth decay.

Patients with lower abdominal distension and dry stool must not eat too many winter jujubes, because patients who often have phlegm, a feeling of fullness in the chest, and usually feel physically exhausted and have poor appetite will worsen their condition if they indulge in winter jujubes, and will also experience adverse symptoms such as cold-heat thirst and stomach distension. This is because jujube is a food with a sweet, pungent, and warming nature, and patients are prone to producing phlegm and dampness after eating it.

Winter jujubes that come on the market early do not taste very good, and are very easily injected with additives and the like by unscrupulous merchants to improve the flavor. This kind of winter jujube is not suitable for excessive consumption; eating one or two at a time to try them is acceptable.

Regular winter jujubes are also not suitable for eating in large amounts. Winter jujube is sticky and greasy and not easy to digest when eaten in excess. It is recommended to eat no more than 10.