The 'king of fiber' fruit helps control blood sugar at a super cheap price. In the summer, it is combined with mangosteen to create a 'hot trend' drink to cool down.

GĐXH – With its delicious taste, rich in fiber and vitamins, this fruit is popular in the summer. Here is a tip on how to combine it with mangosteen to create a 'hot trend' drink to cool down on summer days.

The 'golden' fruit of summer helps prevent diabetes

Passion fruit (also known as passion fruit) is a popular fruit in the summer. In addition to the traditional purple-skinned passion fruit, this time the golden passion fruit has a golden skin, a mild aroma like ripe guava, a sweet taste, and a little sourness, and is chosen by many people.

This fruit originates from Thailand, Taiwan and is now grown in some regions in Vietnam such as Son La, Hoa Binh, Lam Dong, Gia Lai ... The price of golden passion fruit ranges from 45,000 to 100,000 VND/kg, twice as high as regular passion fruit. Passion fruit drinks are also chosen by many people this summer.

Traditional purple passion fruit. Photo PT

Golden passion fruit is popular with many people this summer. Photo PT

Mr. Hoang Tuan - owner of a beverage shop in Ha Dong shared that yellow passion fruit has a special aroma like the smell of ripe guava, a sweet taste, not sour like traditional passion fruit. They can be easily combined with many ingredients such as fresh milk, condensed milk, coconut milk, fresh cream... to create attractive and healthy drinks. In addition, combining with other fruits such as mangosteen, orange, grapefruit or mango also creates delicious drinks.

With a pleasant aroma and light sweetness, yellow passion fruit is very popular in making drinks such as: passion fruit juice mixed with orange, grapefruit, custard apple; Passion fruit yogurt smoothie; Topping for cakes, desserts, fruit jellies...

Passion fruit drinks attract customers in summer

Passion fruit is not only delicious but also known as a golden fruit that enhances health, especially in the summer when the body is susceptible to dehydration, fatigue and vitamin deficiency.

According to Dr. Nguyen Thuy Ngan, Institute for Research and Development of Traditional Medicine of Vietnam, passion fruit contains many vitamins and minerals, providing good antioxidants such as vitamin A, vitamin C, polyphenol, beta-cryptoxanthin and carotenoids... These nutrients help strengthen the immune system, reduce the aging process caused by sunlight, and beautify the skin.

Passion fruit is also high in fiber and has a low glycemic index (GI), which helps control blood sugar levels and can be helpful for people with diabetes. Eating a medium-sized passion fruit weighing about 70 grams can provide about 3.3 grams of fiber, equivalent to '3 bowls of cabbage', so this fruit is still considered the 'king of fiber'.

Some studies have shown that the ingredients in passion fruit can reduce the risk of diabetes thanks to its high fiber content. Using passion fruit peel powder as a medicine to support type 2 diabetes patients can reduce insulin resistance.

How to make delicious, easy-to-make summer drinks from passion fruit

Ms. Kieu Uyen shared a recipe for making mangosteen and passion fruit tea, which is easy to make and delicious, and is a hot trending drink to cool down on summer days.

Ingredients for making mangosteen passion fruit tea

Ingredients for passion fruit sauce: 500g passion fruit pulp; 170-200g brown sugar; 3g salt.

Ingredients for mangosteen sauce: 1kg mangosteen; 150gr brown sugar; 30ml kumquat juice; 20gr kumquat peel.

Brew tea: 1 liter of 90-degree boiling water; 20g of green tea leaves or fulong tea, black tea

Ingredients for making mangosteen passion fruit tea

How to make mangosteen passion fruit tea

Step 1: Make passion fruit sauce: Cut the passion fruit in half and take out the pulp. Then add sugar and salt and cook over medium heat. When the passion fruit sauce boils, skim off the foam and cook for a few more minutes, turn off the heat and let the sauce cool.

Step 2 make mangosteen sauce:

Prepare a bowl of ice water, add 1 tablespoon of salt to the ice water. Cut the mangosteen in half, take out the pulp, put the pulp in the bowl of ice water to prevent the mangosteen from turning brown.

Cut kumquat peel into small pieces. Add sugar, mangosteen flesh, kumquat juice and peel into a pot and cook until the sugar dissolves. Turn off the heat and let the sauce cool.

Once you have made these two sauces, mix them together. Then proceed to brew the tea.

Step 3: Brew the tea: Put the tea in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, then take the tea out and add ice. Then, put the tea in the refrigerator for about 3-5 hours before brewing for better taste.

Step 4: Cook the sugar syrup: Add 500g of white sugar to about 300ml of filtered water and cook over medium heat until boiling. Lower the heat, cook for another 3-5 minutes and turn off the stove, let the sugar syrup cool before making tea.

Note that you should store tea, water, and passion fruit mangosteen sauce in the refrigerator.

Step 5 preparation:

For a 500 ml glass of mangosteen passion fruit tea, you need 1 mashed mangosteen, 30 ml of sugar water, 2 tablespoons of mangosteen passion fruit sauce, 100 ml of tea, 1 kumquat and add ice. Then put these ingredients in a tea shaker, shake well, add ice to fill the glass and a little mangosteen sauce to have a delicious glass of mangosteen passion fruit tea.

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