Some steamed fruits have medicinal properties.

Not only rich in vitamins and nutrients when eaten fresh, some fruits when steamed become medicinal, helping to warm the body, especially in the cold season. Delicious dishes made from steamed fruits not only keep you warm but also strengthen the immune system, good for your health.

Below are some steamed fruits with medicinal effects you can refer to.

Steamed pear with red apple

Steamed pears and red dates to treat coughs is a folk remedy that has been passed down since ancient times. This is one of the safe ways to treat coughs. This dish is simple, delicious, and can be especially cooling in the summer.

Pears contain many vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, vitamin K, and potassium. According to traditional medicine, pears are sweet, cool, and slightly sour, with the effects of clearing heat, moistening the lungs, reducing phlegm, reducing cough, nourishing blood, laxative, and detoxifying.

This is a very popular medicinal herb, used to treat many diseases. Heat-related diseases, fever due to lung diseases, excessive phlegm, sore throat, bronchitis and many other diseases can also be treated with pear.

Red apples are rich in nutrients such as sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and many vitamins A, C, B1, B2, and carotene. They have long been considered an ingredient to nourish the body and beautify the skin.

Red apples are sweet, neutral in nature and have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing cough, and improving health. In Oriental medicine, red apples are used to treat diseases such as sore throat, dry cough, stomachache, insomnia, and digestive disorders.

Steamed pears with red dates often contain rock sugar or honey. Honey is also an ingredient that helps increase the effectiveness of this remedy because of its high anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

Steamed oranges with salt treat respiratory diseases.

Steamed orange with salt

In Oriental medicine, oranges are cold in nature and have the ability to cool the body and eliminate toxins, so they have long been used to treat many respiratory diseases, typically coughs.

According to modern medicine, research shows that oranges contain many nutrients, especially vitamin C and many compounds that can prevent oxidation. Supplementing oranges will help the body increase resistance, thereby fighting free radicals as well as preventing toxins for the body.

In addition, oranges contain 62mg of calories, 13mg of magnesium, 52g of calcium, and lots of vitamin A - antioxidants, so this food can help control infections and dissolve phlegm.

In addition, the folate content in oranges is about 39mg, which will help our bodies prevent respiratory problems that can cause coughs, while reducing the risk of catching the flu.

Steamed sugarcane

Sugarcane is often squeezed for juice in its fresh form, a favorite drink of everyone on hot days. However, few people know that when steamed, sugarcane has other wonderful uses.

Sugarcane is a cold plant, not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, it can easily cause stomachache, after steaming, the cold nature of sugarcane is removed, becoming a hot dish, everyone can eat. In addition, when steaming sugarcane, the sugar in the sugarcane will condense, the taste will be sweeter. The fiber is also softened at high temperature, it does not hurt the teeth and mouth.

Elderly people and children generally have weak spleen and stomach, poor digestion, if eating fresh sugarcane will cause discomfort to the body, but if eating steamed sugarcane, you don't have to worry about this problem. Steamed sugarcane is sweet, juicy and has a very good moisturizing effect. Steamed sugarcane is an effective dish to help pregnant women increase resistance, limit minor illnesses such as flu and fever.

However, it should be noted that although sugarcane calories are not high, about 59 kcal, the sugar content is high, so people with blood sugar problems are advised not to eat it.

Steaming is a cooking method that helps retain most of the vitamins and nutrients in food. Steamed fruits also have some medicinal properties. However, you should consult your doctor or nutritionist before using them to get the best results.

Dr. CKII Huynh Tan Vu (University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital - Facility 3)

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