What is the function of Huili pomegranate? The correct way to eat Huili pomegranate

Do you know what the saying "transparent seeds like pearls, sweet fruit like honey" means? Yes, it is the Huili pomegranate. It is a treasure from head to toe, with large fruit, thin skin, large seeds, rich juice, soft core and sweet taste. Here is the correct way to eat Huili pomegranate. Hope it can help you.

Contents of this article

1. The role of Huili pomegranate

2. The correct way to eat Huili pomegranate

3. When to pick Huili pomegranates

The role of Huili pomegranate

Pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, which can aid digestion, resist gastric ulcers, soften blood vessels, lower blood lipids and blood sugar, and lower cholesterol.

Pomegranate is a treasure from head to toe. Its peel, root and flower can all be used as medicine. The peel of pomegranate contains alkaline substances, which can repel insects; the pomegranate flower has a hemostatic effect, and soaking pomegranate flower in water to wash eyes can also improve eyesight.

Pomegranate is warm in nature, sweet, sour and astringent in taste, and enters the lung, kidney and large intestine meridians; it has the effects of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, astringing and solidifying, stopping diarrhea and stopping bleeding; it is mainly used to treat symptoms such as lack of fluid, dry mouth and throat, thirst, long-term diarrhea, long-term dysentery, bloody stool, and metrorrhagia.

The correct way to eat Huili pomegranate

1. Make a horizontal cut at the top of the pomegranate and remove the top.

2. Use a knife to cut a few times along the white veins of the pomegranate. Don't make the cut too deep, just enough to cut through the pomegranate skin.

3. Use the tip of the knife to gently cut the center of the white part.

4. After cutting, it will look like a blooming flower, and remove the white core in the middle.

5. Gently break the pomegranate and it will "bloom". At this time, it is easy to take out the pomegranate seeds.

When to pick Huili pomegranates

Huili County is located in the southwest of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, with beautiful mountains and rivers and rich resources. It is rich in green-skinned soft-seeded pomegranates and is known as China's "Pomegranate Hometown".

Huili pomegranates have been famous since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, they were the tribute of the emperor and were sent to the palace by the King of Nanzhao every year. In 1966, Anhui Baofeng Nursery sent the best pomegranates from the rapeseed garden in Guanhe Township, with a single fruit weighing more than 1 kilogram, to Chairman Mao Zedong, and Beijing requested 6,000 selected Huili pomegranates for the Asian Games.

Green-skinned soft-seeded pomegranate is a unique and excellent variety of Huili. It has the characteristics of large fruit, thin skin, large grains, rich juice, soft core and sweet taste. It is praised by people as "the seeds are transparent like pearls, and the fruit flavor is rich and sweet like honey" and has extremely high nutritional value.

Huili pomegranates are on sale from late August to October.