How to Eat Star Fruit, Its Contraindications, and the Benefits of Its Branches, Leaves, and Flowers

Star fruit, also known as: wulianzi, yangtao, yangtao, sanlianzi, etc., phylum Angiospermae, genus Averrhoa. In daily life, we often suffer poisoning and other problems because we fail to pay attention to food incompatibilities, so how exactly should star fruit be eaten? And what are the contraindications for eating star fruit?

1. How should star fruit be eaten for good nutrition?

1. Fresh star fruit juice: Take 3 fresh star fruits, wash them with clean water, cut them into fruit cubes with a fruit knife, mash them, and squeeze out the juice. Pour the fruit juice into a cup, add 100 milliliters of warm boiled water, and mix well. Take it twice a day. This juice has the effects of clearing heat and dispelling wind, relieving pain and reducing swelling, and is suitable for patients with red, swollen, and painful joints to drink.

2. Star fruit pickled in vinegar: 1 fresh star fruit, 50 milliliters of red vinegar. Wash the star fruit with clean water, then cut it in half with a fruit knife. Put the fresh fruit into a cup, add red vinegar and soak for 10 minutes, then take it out and chew it slowly. This fruit has the effect of promoting digestion and harmonizing the stomach, and can be used to treat indigestion, chest tightness and abdominal bloating, and other conditions.

3. Star fruit preserved in sugar: 100 grams of fresh star fruit, 50 grams of white sugar. Wash the star fruit with clean water, then cut it open with a fruit knife and arrange it on a plate. Evenly sprinkle the white sugar over the fresh fruit, marinate for 30 minutes, then chew it slowly. This fruit has the effects of relieving summer heat and promoting urination, and is suitable for diarrhea caused by summer heat and dampness.

4. Star fruit and euryale seed rice porridge: 100 grams each of star fruit and late rice, 50 grams of euryale seeds, 50 grams of white sugar. Wash the star fruit, cut it into fruit cubes, and wash the late rice clean with clean water. Put the star fruit cubes, euryale seeds, and late rice together into a large clay pot, add 750 milliliters of clean water, simmer over low heat for 60 minutes, then add white sugar and it is ready. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach.

2. What can star fruit not be eaten with?

1. Cheese: Star fruit is rich in vitamins and easily combines with the milk protein in cheese, causing the cheese to coagulate and become coarse. People with weak and cold spleen and stomach may suffer diarrhea, with uncontrollable severe diarrhea.

2. Seafood: Star fruit is rich in vitamin C, and seafood contains pentavalent arsenic compounds. When they meet vitamin C, they become trivalent, that is, highly toxic arsenic. Long-term consumption will harm health.

3. Cucumber: Star fruit is rich in vitamin C, and cucumber contains vitamin C decomposing enzyme. Eating the two together will affect the absorption of vitamin C. At the same time, cucumber is also cooling in nature, and long-term consumption together may easily cause stomachache.

4. Pomegranate: Star fruit and pomegranate also cannot be eaten together. Eating them together may easily cause symptoms of internal heat.

3. Who should not eat star fruit?

1. Kidney disease patients: Star fruit contains a neurotoxin. Under normal circumstances, it is eliminated by the human kidneys, but patients with severe kidney disease or uremia may be poisoned because they cannot eliminate it. Mild cases may experience hiccups and vomiting, and severe cases may die from epileptic seizures.

2. Diabetic patients: Diabetic patients also need to be careful not to eat too much star fruit, and only on the premise that kidney function has been checked and is intact.

4. The benefits and effects of star fruit root

[Nature and taste] Sour and astringent in taste, neutral in nature.

[Effects] Astringes essence, stops bleeding, and relieves pain. Used for seminal emission, nosebleeds, chronic headache, and joint pain.

5. The benefits and effects of star fruit branches and leaves

[Nature and taste] Sour and astringent in taste, cool in nature.

[Effects] Dispels wind and drains dampness, reduces swelling and relieves pain. Used for wind-heat common cold, acute gastroenteritis, difficult urination, postpartum edema, bruising and swelling from falls, and painful swollen carbuncles and sores.

6. The benefits and effects of star fruit flowers

[Nature and taste] Sweet in taste, neutral in nature.

[Effects] Clears heat. Used for alternating chills and fever.

7. The benefits and effects of star fruit

[Nature and taste] Sour and sweet in taste, neutral in nature.

[Effects] Promotes body fluids and relieves cough. Used for wind-heat cough, sore throat, and malarial masses.