The lychee is tropical fruit which grows generally in Southeast Asia. It has very pleasant and memorable taste. What useful properties are available for lychee fruit?
The lychee grows on trees which can reach in height of 20 meters. This fruit resembles a brush of a wild strawberry or strawberry superficially. It is caused by the fact that fruits of a lychee grow at clusters on 10-15 pieces. It is also called the Chinese plum. In a fruit there is a dark large stone. Outside it is covered with small pimples and has pink color.
Besides the fresh use of a lychee use for preparation of various cookings, compotes, sweet sauces. This fruit brings big benefit to an organism of any person. It is connected, first of all, with that. That the lychee contains huge amount of various vitamins and minerals. First of all, it is vitamins B, E, C, N and also potassium, sodium, fluorine, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, pectin, complex carbohydrates and so on. Availability of all these substances which are a part of a lychee characterizes its main useful properties.
Useful properties of a lychee
1. Effectively increases hemoglobin level in blood and interferes with appearance of anemia, thanks to the high content of iron.
2. Increases immunity and interferes with appearance of catarrhal and viral diseases.
3. Helps people with such diseases as diabetes, stomach ulcer, gastritis, the lowered sugar level.
4. Normalizes work of a liver, kidneys and a pancreas.
5. Is prophylactic of oncological diseases.
6. Restores a lack of vitamins and minerals in an organism.
7. Reduces cholesterol level in blood and brings him out of an organism.
8. Increases efficiency of the person, thanks to it the organism always is in a tone.
9. Adjusts work of intestines and fights against locks.
10. Thanks to low caloric content (only 70 kcal on 100 g of a product) it is used at various diets and desire to get rid of excess weight.
11. Is fine natural aphrodisiac.
12. Improves blood circulation that promotes increase in performance of a brain.
13. Perfectly satisfies thirst in any situations because of the high content of water.
14. Adjusts work of heart and vessels.
15. Is diuretic.
16. At children strengthens bones and teeth.
At presence of a huge amount of useful properties at a lychee there are practically no contraindications. Only emergence of allergic reactions in cases of overeating and personal intolerance an organism of this fruit is possible.
Within one day it is undesirable to use more than hundred grams of a lychee. It can lead to some unpleasant consequences, for example, to nausea, temperature increase and migraine.
How to choose a ripe lychee
To please itself with tasty and useful fruit, it is necessary to choose correctly a lychee in shop. The fruit has to have pronounced pink color and to be without various external damages. At the same time it is possible to shake it in hands – fresh fruit will make a low sound. The dark peel is a consequence of the fact that the fruit is stored long ago and can be rotten.
The lychee in shop or in the market can be got all the year round in spite of the fact that usually it ripens only in the middle or the end of summer.
For consumption and extension of an expiration date of a lychee freeze or just dry that then to add to pastries or to cook compotes.