Persimmon - beneficial properties and contraindications

The persimmon is an exotic fruit growing in the tropics and subtropics, it is most grown in Asian countries. There are about 700 species around the world. Do you know that persimmary not everyone can eat? That she has contraindications. So who can be touched by persimm, and who can not? We will find out in this article.

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What happens persimmon?

In southern countries, where the persimmon grows, they grow the following, the most common varieties:

• Persimmon ordinary - Orange color inside and outside, knits even when ripe.
• Chocolate king - the sweetest and tasty persimmon, a small size with a large number (4-14 pieces) of elongated bones, does not knit even a solid immature fruit in the mouth. Ripe persimmon from above color - orange, inside - almost chocolate shade, and the darker, the sweeter.
• Queen - This variety is similar to a chocolate king, but more in size, the color is reddish-brown, there are weak notes of the taste of walnuts, unpretentious persimmon knits in the mouth.
• Rough Honey - Early grade. The persimmon is sweet, light orange outside and inside, if ripe, then jelly-like.
• Persimmon figs - Inside the color browned to chocolate. The earliest variety is the first to appear on sale.
• Persima Honey - The sweetest grade, the ripe fruit is very juicy, bright orange, jelly, has the shape of a mandarin, without bones.
• Persima Tomato - Sweet, in shape resembles a major tomato of orange color, ripe fruit jelly-like, without stones.
• Persimmon Egyptian - weakly sweet persimmon with a thick eye, stretched out shape, bright orange.
• Churma Chinese - Weakly sweet fruit are covered with thick solid skin of orange.
• Kaki - the largest, up to 0.5 kg 1 fruit.
• Sharon. - The variety is obtained from the crossed of the Japanese persimmon and apple tree. The fruits are not tart, without seeds, with a gentle flesh, very sweet.

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Useful properties of persimmon

If you have these diseases, then you persimmon season (late autumn, winter) you need to eat 2-3 pieces of ripe persimmon on a day:

• Poor performance of the stomach. Due contained in the persimmon pulp tissue of the stomach wall are cleaned of accumulated food residue.
• Vascular disease, heart and anemia. Vitamins B1 and B2, as well as potassium and iron, and strengthen the walls of the heart muscles, improve blood.
• Sand and stones in the gall bladder and kidneys. Due to the diuretic effect of persimmon, it brings sand from the body, destroying stones.
• The presence of vitamin A in the persimmon improves eyesight.
• Poorly healing wounds, abscesses. The fruit of the persimmon has bactericidal properties. In addition to eating every day, persimmon, thin slices can be applied to the wound. You can also make a decoction of the leaves of persimmon.
• Enuresis. The disease is treated tails of persimmon, if their brew and drink.
• Hypertension - eating fresh persimmon fruit, especially dried and dried, the pressure is reduced.
• Bronchitis - useful decoction of the tails of persimmon for gargling.
• In diseases of the thyroid gland - persimmon is rich in iodine.
• persimmon is useful pregnant women due to the abundance of vitamins, and swelling.

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Contraindications to the use of persimmon

From persimmons need to completely abandon in such diseases and disease states of the body:

• Breastfeeding baby.
• After surgery on the intestines and stomach. Contained in persimmon tannin (binder element in solid fruits) may create an obstruction in the intestine.
• When excess weight - for several reasons: first - lots of carbs; second - tannin impairs the metabolism, that is so bad and obesity.
• In diabetes type I - because of the carbohydrates, if the disease is type II - can be in small quantities.
• Children under 3 yearsBecause tannin and fibrous tissue, which can create an obstruction in the intestine.
• For constipation - the presence of tannin may further aggravate constipation, and form a solid, like lumps of stone (bezoar) in the stomach. For the same reason you can not eat persimmons with dairy products, fish. If constipation can only eat soft, very ripe persimmons.
• When pancreatic disease.
• When allergy persimmon.

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And yet something about the persimmon

What if you got a hard unripe persimmon, it is usually a lot of tannin? To astringent properties of the fruit to remove, You need to do one of the following:

• Lower fruit in warm water (about 40ᵒC) for 10-15 minutes.
• Put clean washed persimmon for 10-15 minutes in the freezer, then get and you are ready to eat.
• Solid persimm to freeze, and after a while lay out in warm water and keep it for 12 hours, then you can eat.

In Japan, bones from persimmon cold impotence in men. The bones are dry, grind and drink as coffee, or bless them, but if there are problems with the stomach, then this should not do.

After you filed persimmon, you need to clean your teeth, otherwise because of Tanin there is a risk of sick dental enamel caries.

So, we learned, under what diseases it is useful to eat persimmon, and at what it is impossible there is neither a binding persimmon slices, otherwise there may be difficult consequences.