Introduction:
Hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge), also known as Shanli fruit, Shanli red, Rosaceae hawthorn genus, deciduous trees, up to 6 metres high, in many parts of China are distributed.
The fruit is a drupe, with a hard kernel, thin flesh, and a slightly sour and astringent flavour. The fruit can be eaten raw or made into preserved fruit cake, and can be used as medicine after drying, which is a unique medicinal fruit and tree species in China, with the effect of lowering blood fat, blood pressure, strengthening the heart, and resisting arrhythmia.
Production Method:
A method of producing a hawthorn powder product comprising both a mixture of hawthorn meat and starch of edible adsorbent, wherein the hawthorn meat accounts for 70% to 85% of the total weight and the starch of edible adsorbent accounts for 30% to 15% of the total weight.
A method of producing a hawthorn powder product, characterised in that it comprises the following steps:
(1) Carefully selecting raw material hawthorn; it is necessary to eliminate the hawthorn with broken surface or the hawthorn with insect infestation.
(2) Washing the selected hawthorn with water and steaming;
(3) After cooling, peeling the steamed hawthorn;
(4) The peeled hawthorn was de-core;
(5) Placing the de-cored hawthorn in a roller crusher for granulation;
(6) Drying the hawthorn granules, wherein the temperature of drying is 40 to 50°C and the drying time is 30 to 100 hours.
(7) Placing the dried hawthorn grains in a vacuum drying oven for sterilisation; the vacuum degree in drying and sterilisation is -0.06 ~ 0.1Mpa, and the temperature is increased to 80 ~ 100°C, and then the holding time is 2 ~ 6 hours, and the clean and dry water vapour is passed through 100°C for 10 minutes.
(8) Put the sterilised hawthorn grains into a pulveriser for crushing;
(9) Mixing the crushed hawthorn with starch of edible adsorbent in a proportional manner;
(10) Sealing and packing the made hawthorn powder, or soft packing, bottle or metal barrel according to the market requirements.
The superiority of hawthorn powder from this production method is: (1) hawthorn powder products can be directly boiled water and drink, and also can be used as food additives, which is convenient and multi-purpose; (2) hawthorn products are convenient to eat, and the beneficial ingredients are not lost; (3) the obtained products have a very good prospect of application in medicine and health care.
Function:
Supply nutritional matters
Hawthorn berries have important medicinal value and have been used since ancient times as a good medicine to strengthen the spleen and open the stomach, eliminate food and stagnation, activate blood circulation and resolve phlegm. Hawthorn fruit contains sugar, protein, fat, vitamin C, carotene, starch, malic acid, citric acid, calcium and iron, etc. It has the effect of lowering blood fat, blood pressure, strengthening the heart and anti-arrhythmia. The flavonoids within hawthorn berries, poncirin, are used as inhibitors of cancer cell growth, proliferation and infiltration and metastasis in the body.
Aid digestion
Hawthorn fruit is used as medicine, slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, entering the spleen, stomach and liver meridians, with the functions of eliminating food and strengthening the stomach, activating blood circulation and removing blockage, astringent and stopping dysentery. It has curative effect on meat accumulation and phlegm drinking, plumpness and acid swallowing, diarrhoea and intestinal wind, lumbar pain and hernia, postnatal pain of child's occiput, and stagnation of child's milk and food.
Because hawthorn fruit contains many kinds of organic acid such as hawthorn fruit acid, taste sour and sweet, and contain lipolytic enzyme, after entering stomach, it can enhance the enzyme action, promote the digestion of meat, help cholesterol transformation, so, for those who feel satiated and bloated after eating meat or greasy things, eat some hawthorn fruit, hawthorn fruit slices, hawthorn fruit water or hawthorn fruit pills, etc., can eliminate food, and it can be the key food for the old people, and hawthorn fruit can also be beneficial to bile, and promote gastric juice secretion.
Regulate blood lipid and lower blood pressure, improve body immunity.
Hawthorn contains mountain terpenoids and flavonoids and other medicinal ingredients, which have significant vasodilating and antihypertensive effects, and have the functions of strengthening cardiac muscle, resisting arrhythmia, and regulating blood lipids and cholesterol content. Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease (including angina pectoris), it is advisable to drink hawthorn powder white sugar water often. Cure high blood pressure, high blood fat, obesity, fatty liver, these patients daily food hawthorn powder, insist on eating for a period of time, have the efficacy of lowering blood pressure and lowering fat, regulating fat. To cure constipation, take 2 to 3 grains of fresh hawthorn powder, it has the effect of laxative, and can be used to prevent and control dry mouth, thirst and constipation caused by the loss of fluid. Treatment of gynaecological diseases, take hawthorn powder 3 to 5 grains, water rinse food, served for 7 days, can remove silt and activate blood, used to prevent and control women's amenorrhoea, lower abdominal distension. However, although hawthorn powder is good, but pregnant women and peptic ulcer patients should not eat more, and, in general, empty stomach is not recommended to eat more.
Warm reminder: Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn fruit can only eliminate but not replenish, and those with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more. Healthy people who eat hawthorn fruit should also have some moderation, especially children, who are in the period of tooth replacement, long time gluttony hawthorn fruit or hawthorn fruit slices, hawthorn fruit cake, etc., is unfavourable to the growth of teeth. In addition, hawthorn fruit slices and fruit pudding contain a lot of sugar, children eat too much will make the blood sugar keep at a high level, no hunger, affect eating, long-term large amount of consumption will lead to malnutrition, anaemia and so on. Diabetic patients should not eat, can be appropriate to eat hawthorn fruit fresh fruit. After consuming, pay attention to rinse mouth and brush teeth in time, in order to prevent harming teeth.
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