How to eat grapefruit peel? Can grapefruit peel cure cough?

Most people tend to throw away the grapefruit peel after eating the grapefruit pulp. In fact, grapefruit peel is not only nutritious, but also has therapeutic effects such as warming the stomach, resolving phlegm, and moistening the throat. If this is the first time you have heard of it, let's take a look at how to eat grapefruit peel and what value it has!

Contents of this article

1. How to eat grapefruit peel

2. Can grapefruit peel cure cough?

3. How to use grapefruit peel to treat cough

How to eat grapefruit peel

1. How to cook grapefruit peel

In the past, some people liked to rub the pomelo peel with lard, let the pomelo peel absorb enough lard to make it greasy, and then fry the pomelo peel with lard until it is loose, and then cook it into dishes. Nowadays, people pay attention to health and are afraid of greasiness, so this method is basically not used. Just soak the pomelo peel, cut it into pieces, squeeze out the water, and then simmer it with soup for several hours, so that the pomelo peel can fully absorb the deliciousness of the soup, then turn off the heat and collect the juice, and finally use shrimps, minced meat and other ingredients fried with garlic to make a sauce, and pour it on the pomelo peel.

2. Steamed Spare Ribs with Pomelo Peel

This is the season when grapefruits are on the market in large quantities. Most people tend to throw away the grapefruit peel after eating the grapefruit flesh, which is a pity. Because grapefruit peel is edible, it is not only rich in nutrients, but also has therapeutic effects such as warming the stomach, resolving phlegm, and moistening the throat.

3. Candied grapefruit peel

1. Take out the grapefruit peel, try not to take the white part

2. Add sugar and marinate overnight. After marinating overnight, the skin becomes soft and liquid comes out.

3. Put it in the pot, add some rock sugar and cook on low heat.

4. Cook until the sugar becomes thick and the grapefruit peel becomes transparent.

4. Pomelo Peel with Meat Sauce

Ingredients: 150 grams of pork belly, 200 grams of pomelo peel, appropriate amounts of ginger slices, Chu Hou sauce, and Dongguan sweet noodle sauce.

practice:

1. Dice the pork belly, add ginger slices and Chu Hou sauce and stir-fry until half cooked.

2. Add the processed pomelo peel.

3. Add appropriate amount of Chu Hou sauce and Dongguan sweet noodle sauce and serve.

Features: The pork belly is mixed with the fragrance of grapefruit peel, which can enhance the aroma of meat and exude a strong local flavor.

Can grapefruit peel cure cough?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that grapefruit peel tastes bitter and sweet, and is warm in nature. It has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, regulating qi, and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat cough and asthma, chest tightness due to qi stagnation, abdominal cold pain, food stagnation, hernia, etc.

Grapefruit can cure cough. Grapefruit can relieve cough and asthma, clear away heat and resolve phlegm, and can treat cough. Grapefruit peel can cure cough, relieve cough, and aid digestion. Cut the dried grapefruit peel into thin strips, put it in a small pot, add water and boil it, and then drink it. For tension headache, boil the dried grapefruit peel in water, let it warm and wash your hair, then rinse it with water. The peel of tangerine and grapefruit is processed into the tangerine peel in traditional Chinese medicine. Tangerine peel is pungent, bitter, and warm in nature and flavor, and enters the spleen and lung meridians; it has the functions of promoting qi and strengthening the spleen, descending adverse qi and stopping vomiting, regulating the middle and stimulating appetite, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for abdominal distension, belching, nausea, vomiting, etc. caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation.

How to use grapefruit peel to treat cough

First, five tips for choosing grapefruit

1. Choose sharp points instead of round ones (the sharper the better)

2. Choose big ones instead of small ones (big and mature ones will be better).

3. Choose yellow instead of green (yellow matures earlier than green)

4. Choose heavy fruits instead of light ones (heavy fruits are fuller)

5. When choosing a grapefruit, press the bottom with your fingers. The one that cannot be pressed is the best!

Five ways to pick grapefruit that is quite delicious

The ingredients for making grapefruit peel boiled water are: grapefruit peel, rock sugar (brown sugar, honey, locust flower honey is best), one of them will do. Method:

1. Soak the grapefruit in hot water for about 10 minutes. In order to look beautiful, the grapefruit usually has a layer of wax on the skin, so we need to rub the grapefruit gently with table salt to make the skin cleaner!

2. Peel the grapefruit skin. I used the peel of half a grapefruit.

3. Break the grapefruit peel into small pieces so that the ingredients inside can be fully cooked out during the cooking process.

4. After the preparations are done, you can put it in the pot and cook it. Add grapefruit peel and appropriate amount of rock sugar to let it fully absorb the sweetness of the rock sugar water. When the baby drinks it, he will not refuse to drink it because it is too bitter.

5. Slowly switch from high heat to low heat.

6. After about half an hour, the color of the grapefruit peel water will change from white to yellow, and it will be OK.