Can pregnant women eat round dates?

Different regions have different names for some foods, which sometimes cause misunderstandings to people who don’t understand. It is very good for women to eat more fruits when they are pregnant, because fruits contain various vitamins, and each vitamin will bring different benefits to the fetus. Round dates are actually what people often call kiwi fruit. Everyone knows that kiwi fruit is rich in vitamin C. Can pregnant women eat round dates? Can pregnant women eat round dates?

1. Nutritional value of round dates

Round jujube, also known as wild kiwi fruit, is not cultivated artificially now, so it is a wild fruit. Round jujube has a unique and delicious flavor, and is rich in protein and various minerals, vitamins, carotene, multiple amino acids, and rich minerals. Round dates are not common in our daily life. What nutritional value does this wild fruit have?

1. Anti-cancer

Round dates contain anti-cancer substances. Living in the wild, they are less polluted by artificial chemicals and have significant anti-cancer effects.

2. Anti-aging

Round dates also contain antioxidants that fight free radicals, which can relieve skin aging, while also enhancing the body's immunity and making body tissues younger.

3. Soften blood vessels

Round dates have the effect of softening blood vessels and can reduce inflammation and swelling.

In addition to the above-mentioned benefits, modern science has also discovered that eating jujubes can reduce the toxic and side effects of X-ray irradiation and chemotherapy, so it has been included in the astronauts' diet.

2. What are round dates?

Round jujube, at first glance you might think it is a kind of jujube, but in fact, round jujube is another name for wild kiwi fruit. It belongs to the Actinidia family and mainly grows in the Changbai Mountains. It can only be found deep in the jungle. The growing period of round dates is very long, and when growing, they must wrap around tall trees, so it is difficult to plant them artificially, which is why no one has planted them yet.

Round dates are a very precious fruit. Since they grow in the primitive jungle with fertile soil, they have high nutritional value. They usually mature in August and September every year and are commonly known as "wolf dates".

Not only that, the history of jujube is also very long. As early as BC, there were records about kiwi fruit in the "Book of Songs". Li Shizhen also described the shape and color of kiwi fruit in "Compendium of Materia Medica" and said: "Its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and kiwis like to eat it, so it has various names."

Now wild kiwifruit, also known as round jujube, is found in the Lesser Khingan Mountains. It is rich in protein and multiple vitamins, and is also rich in amino acids, carotene and minerals. It is precisely because of its rich nutritional value and medicinal value that round jujube is listed as food for astronauts, which shows its high edible value!