What is the nutritional value of sea buckthorn fruit? How to eat sea buckthorn fruit

The vitamin C content in seabuckthorn fruit is much higher than that in fresh dates and kiwi fruit. It is known as a natural vitamin treasure house. Seabuckthorn fruit is also very rich in protein, fat, sugar and salt. Seabuckthorn fruit can be processed into seabuckthorn juice for drinking. It requires fresh, fully ripe and juicy fruit. The following is about the consumption of seabuckthorn fruit. I hope our life will be as sweet and nutritious as seabuckthorn fruit.

Contents of this article

1. What is the nutritional value of sea buckthorn fruit?

2. How to eat sea buckthorn fruit

3. Who is not suitable to drink seabuckthorn?

What is the nutritional value of sea buckthorn fruit

The vitamin C content in seabuckthorn fruit is much higher than that in fresh dates and kiwi fruit, and it is known as a natural vitamin treasure house. In addition to vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, vitamin E, vitamin K compounds, and vitamin P are all present in large quantities in seabuckthorn fruit. In addition to vitamin components, seabuckthorn fruit is also very rich in protein, fat, sugar and salt.

How to eat sea buckthorn fruit

Sea buckthorn juice

Seabuckthorn fruit can be processed into seabuckthorn juice for drinking. It requires fresh, fully mature, and juicy fruit. After mechanical or manual cleaning, it is squeezed with a screw press. After the first squeezing, the pomace is stirred and fluffed. Then it is squeezed a second time. After that, the juice is left to stand for a while. After all the residues have settled to the bottom, the pure juice is extracted. At this time, the juice does not need to be sterilized. It can be refrigerated after adding 0.04% sodium benzoate.

Select fresh sea buckthorn fruit that is 80% to 90% mature and of good quality as raw materials, wash with clean water, peel and remove seeds, and leave the pulp. Add filtered sugar water (50kg of white sugar and 16.5kg of water) for every 50kg of pulp juice. Pour half of the sugar water into the pot and boil it, then add the pulp and cook for 20 minutes. When the pulp is boiled to be transparent, add the remaining sugar water and continue to cook for 25 minutes to half an hour. When the jam solidifies to more than 68%, it can be canned and sealed. After sterilization in 100°C steam or boiling water for 5 to 20 minutes, it can be refrigerated. The pulp is orange-yellow, transparent and shiny, the slurry is uniform, there is no sugar crystals and fruit stalks and other debris, and the jam with sea buckthorn fragrance is qualified.

Wash 15kg of fresh sea buckthorn fruit and pour it into a vat, add 22.5kg of Daqu and stir evenly, ferment at room temperature of 20°C for 15 days, then add 175kg of bran into the fermented fruit, crush it with a grinder and stir evenly, and carry out the second fermentation. The fermentation temperature should not exceed 40°C. In order to avoid excessive temperature, the vat can be turned over once a day. After about ten days of fermentation, pour it into the vinegar vat for promotion, soak the vinegar residue after the first vinegar for another 10 hours, and carry out the second vinegar pouring. The finished sea buckthorn vinegar is brown-yellow, slightly turbid, fragrant, and tastes sour and bitter.

Who should not drink sea buckthorn?

Sea buckthorn fruit is a warm fruit, so people with hot body may suffer from excess yang energy in the body after drinking sea buckthorn puree, which may lead to symptoms of getting angry, such as dry stool, sore throat, etc., which is not conducive to their own recovery.

Sea buckthorn puree contains more sugar, and diabetic patients need to control their sugar intake. Eating sea buckthorn puree will cause blood sugar to rise, which will aggravate the condition and is not conducive to disease control.

Sea buckthorn puree contains more acidic substances, such as citric acid, malic acid, tannic acid, etc., which will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid after consumption. For people who already have stomach diseases, eating acidic foods can easily cause stomach discomfort and aggravate their condition.