1, often eaten can prevent cancer: a medium-sized orange can provide people with vitamin C for a day and improve the body's ability to resist bacterial invasion. Oranges can scavenge free radicals harmful to health and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. Among all fruits, citrus contains the highest antioxidant substances, including more than 60 flavonoids and 17 carotenoids. Flavonoids have anti-inflammatory, blood vessel strengthening and blood coagulation inhibiting effects. Carotenoids have a strong antioxidant effect. These ingredients make oranges inhibit the occurrence of various cancers.
2. Oranges are high in vitamin C and have always been a favorite fruit of many people. But for women, eating more oranges has an unexpected benefit, which is to reduce the incidence of gallstones.
3. Oranges, also known as "yellow fruits" and "golden rings", can be divided into sour and sweet. After a full meal, drinking a glass of lime juice can relieve greasy food, eliminate food accumulation and have a wonderful effect of quenching thirst and sobering up. Its pulp is moderately sweet and sour, and its aroma is rich. Oranges contain vitamins A, B, C, D, citric acid, malic acid, pectin and other ingredients. Vitamins P and C can enhance the toughness of capillaries. Pectin can help lipid and cholesterol excrete as soon as possible and reduce the absorption of exogenous cholesterol, so it has the function of lowering blood lipid. Oranges are sour and cool, and have the medicinal effects of promoting qi circulation and resolving phlegm, invigorating spleen and warming stomach, helping digestion and stimulating appetite. In developed countries, the pursuit of natural food, without adding any water, pay attention to the original flavor, and often make oranges into juice, which is an essential first-class drink for every meal. Orange peel, also known as yellow peel, contains a lot of carotene in addition to the ingredients in the pulp, which can be used as a flavoring agent for strengthening the stomach and aroma. Orange peel also contains a certain amount of orange peel oil, which is effective for chronic bronchitis.
The disadvantages of eating oranges often
1, eaten on an empty stomach, organic acids in oranges can stimulate gastric mucosa and cause stomach pain.
2, oranges contain more tannic acid, which is easy to combine with iron, which is not conducive to the absorption and utilization of iron, so anemia patients should not eat more oranges.
It is recommended not to eat too much at a time, but to eat often. Some people are not fit to eat oranges. For example, people with dry mouth and throat and less red tongue coating. This is caused by the deficiency of liver yin. Eating too many oranges is more likely to hurt liver qi and cause deficiency heat.