Nitraria tangutorum has important economic application value and broad development prospects;
Nitraria tangutorum is a natural resource of green food, health care products and medicines. Nitraria fruit can be eaten raw or cooked, which is delicious and easy to be processed into various types of special foods. Nitraria tangutorum grows in the Qaidam basin with an average elevation of about 3,000 meters. Because the basin is vast, sparsely populated, with no modern towns and industrial pollution, and the environment is very clean, Nitraria tangutorum fruit is truly pure natural green food, health care products and pharmaceutical raw materials, and its development prospect is very broad.
Nitraria tangutorum has the material basis for developing characteristic food, health food and medicine. Nitraria fruit in Qaidam is a magical biological resource. Fruit contains a variety of nutrients and health care active ingredients, which are rich in content. According to research, the peel, pulp and juice of Nitraria tangutorum are rich in carotene, carotenoids and vitamins (VA, VB, VC, VE, VK, etc. ), dibasic and tribasic hydroxy acids, amino acids (up to 18, which are rich in 8 essential amino acids), pectin, protopectin, flavonoids, anthocyanins, albizzine and polysaccharides.