When do Xinjiang large red dates hit the market, and what are their price, effects and benefits?
Xinjiang large jujubes refers to jujubes grown in Xinjiang, China. And jujube, also known as red date, dried date, date, originated in China, so when does it generally go on the market? How much money per jin can you buy it for? What effects and benefits does it have? From Uncle Li, a large jujube grower in Hotan, Xinjiang, we learned that around the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the skin of the large jujube begins to turn red, slowly entering the ripening period. It is only around the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month that the large jujubes mature and turn red, and begin to be sold in large quantities on the market. In other words, new jujubes only go on the market around mid-September, and at this time the large jujubes are crisp, sweet and juicy. Dried dates do not mature until around October 20th to after the first frost, when the large jujubes have good color and high sugar content.
How much is Xinjiang large red date per jin?
Large red dates come in different grades, so the prices differ. According to the market in Beijing, the ones selling well now are all Jun jujubes, which are divided into four grades according to size:
Three-star grade Size: 3.5-3.9cm long, 2-2.6cm wide Supermarket price 39 yuan
Four-star grade Size: 3.9-4.1cm long, 2.6-3cm wide Supermarket price 50 yuan
Five-star grade Size: 4.1-4.5cm long, 3-3.5cm wide Supermarket price 68 yuan
Six-star grade Size: 4.5-6.0cm long, 3-3.5cm wide Supermarket price ranges from 79 yuan to 120 yuan
However, people who generally know their stuff love to eat grey jujubes. Although they are small in size, in terms of plumpness and taste and sweetness, they are all better than Jun jujubes, and the price is generally around 80 yuan per jin.
What effects and benefits do Xinjiang large red dates have?
1. Strengthening the spleen and benefiting the stomach: People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and fatigue and weakness can eat seven red dates a day, or use them together with codonopsis and white atractylodes, to tonify the middle and benefit qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach, achieving the effect of increasing appetite and stopping diarrhea; using red dates together with ginger and pinellia can treat gastritis caused by careless eating, such as symptoms like stomach bloating and vomiting.
2. Tonifying qi and nourishing blood. Red dates are an excellent tonic and are often added to medicinal diets; red dates nourish the body and moisten qi and blood. Dr. Sun Andi of immunology at National Taiwan University strongly advocates eating more red dates, astragalus and goji berries in daily life, which can boost the body's vital energy and enhance immunity. In addition, red dates are often used in medicine; in strong medicinal prescriptions, they are used to reduce the side effects of strong medicines and protect vital qi.
3. Enhancing human immunity. Large jujubes contain a large amount of carbohydrate substances, mainly glucose, and also contain fructose, sucrose, as well as oligosaccharides composed of glucose and fructose, arabinan and galacturonan, etc.; and they contain a large amount of vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, carotene, nicotinic acid and many other vitamins, have a strong nourishing effect, can improve human immune function, and enhance disease resistance.
4. Enhancing muscle strength. Increasing body weight. In experiments, mice were given large jujube decoction by gavage daily for 3 weeks, and their body weight increase was significantly higher than that of the control group, and in the swimming test, their swimming time was significantly longer than that of the control group, which shows that large jujubes have the effect of enhancing muscle strength and increasing body weight.
5. Protecting the liver. Experiments have confirmed that for rabbits with carbon tetrachloride liver injury, feeding large jujube decoction daily for 1 week resulted in a significant increase in serum total protein and albumin compared with the control group, indicating that large jujubes have a liver-protecting effect.
6. Anti-allergy. The ethanol extract of large jujubes can inhibit the production of antibodies in atopic diseases, and also has an inhibitory effect on reactive antibodies in mice, suggesting that large jujubes have an anti-allergic effect.
7. Xinjiang large red dates also have a certain calming and spirit-quieting effect.