Mandarin is a branched evergreen tree of medium size (up to four meters in height) or a bush. Citrus fruits reach six centimeters in circumference. The shape of the fruit is like an oblate ball above and below. The skin of the fruit is thin, loosely attached to the lobules. The fruit consists of 8-13 slices, juicy and sweet or sour-sweet in taste. The shares of the fruit are well separated from each other, the flesh is orange in color. Without exception, citrus fruits have a pleasant refreshing smell.
Fruits of tangerines are used in the dish fresh, they are used to make compotes and preserves, jams, produce candied fruits, fruit salads, and also used as a spice. Peel is widely used in medicine for the production of aroma oils, tinctures, syrups, medicines. Despite its beneficial properties, mandarins have contraindications.
Did you know? It is believed that the homeland mandarinchika - solar celestial.
The composition of mandarins: vitamins, micro and macronutrients
The chemical composition of mandarins allows to equate them with superfruit. Because of this, it is considered a great diet product and an excellent battery of nutrients.
100 g of pulp have the following composition:
- up to 88% moisture;
- up to 2% dietary fiber;
- 0.8% protein;
- 0.3% fat;
- up to 12% carbohydrates.
Important! The beneficial properties of mandarins are far from limitless and there are contraindications to their use. Everything is good in moderation.
The benefits of mandarin
It is believed that tangerines have a good effect on digestion and help increase appetite. In winter, the best source of vitamins you can not find. Tangerines also have an effect on metabolic processes in the human body. Regular consumption of not only fruits, but also fresh juice helps to strengthen the immune system.
Phytoncides present in fruits have an antibacterial effect. Thanks to phytoncides, mandarin juice inhibits the spread of pathogenic fungi that cause skin diseases in the body. Juice and fruits of mandarins treat dysentery. During menopause or with heavy bleeding, mandarins are used as a styptic.. Dried mandarin rind also has useful properties. When brewed in tea, it has a calming effect. It is also used for the preparation of inhalation decoctions for pulmonary and respiratory diseases.
Recently, scientists have proven that eating mandarins reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases, stabilizes insulin levels in patients with diabetes, helps reduce blood cholesterol levels, and reduce thirst at elevated body temperature during a flu.
Did you know? From a mature mandarin tree at the age of thirty you can collect up to seven thousand fruits.
The use of mandarins in medicine
Due to the wide spectrum of action of useful substances contained in fruits, mandarin is widely used in traditional medicine. For the treatment and prevention of a number of diseases, both fruits and mandarin leaves are used, which also have their own beneficial properties and contraindications. To soften the cough and expectoration expectoration is used a decoction of fresh crushed peel of tangerines. Two tablespoons of zest pour 300 ml of boiling water and boil for twenty minutes over low heat. The resulting broth drink cooled all day.
As an anthelmintic treatment use a glass of tangerine juice three times a day, thirty minutes before the meal. The treatment is carried out for three days. For the removal of worms from the body before bedtime uses laxatives. Flatulence treated with dried crushed zest. 0.5 teaspoons added to food (cottage cheese, porridge) and eat.
Important! Eating tangerines is recommended in the morning.
The beneficial properties of tangerine peel are used to treat nail fungus. Freshly peel rub nails up to three times a day. To give the face a beautiful color and eliminate wrinkles, a mask of sour cream, dried tangerine peel and yolk is used (everything is mixed in a ratio of 1: 1: 1). Put a mask on the face and neck and hold up to twenty minutes. The course of treatment in 20 days will provide you with a great rejuvenating effect. To reduce the sugar take the decoction of the peel of three medium-sized tangerines, boiled in a liter of water for ten minutes. The broth is cooked, tsed and taken throughout the day instead of water.As prevention of colds and flu tincture is used: Freshly chopped mandarin peel (2 tablespoons) is poured with a glass of vodka and drawn for two weeks. Then filter the tincture, squeezing the zest, and take 20 drops twenty minutes before a meal, twice a day.
To set the mood using mandarin zest, placed in a glass jar with a lid. All that is required of you is to open the lid several times a day and inhale the pleasant aroma of the zest. The beneficial properties of mandarin leaves are not fully understood, so little is known about them. Mandarin leaves are used in disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Take 4 leaves of mandarin, pour water and boil for about fifteen minutes. The broth is cooled and taken in 100 ml three times a day.
For nervous disorders and migraines, they use a decoction prepared from several dried leaves and two teaspoons of dried peel, boiled in a liter of water. Contraindications: idiosyncrasy of the product and gastrointestinal diseases, which can be aggravated when taking mandarins.
Did you know? Mandarin is a fruit that does not contain nitrates due to their inevitability with citric acid contained in citrus fruits.
Harm from tangerines
The benefits and harms of tangerines depend on the quality of the product and the amount of its use, Contraindications to the use of mandarins in food are people with diseases:
- gastritis, ulcers, colitis, enteritis due to the effect of mandarins on the increase in acidity and irritation of the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract;
- cholecystitis, pancreatitis, because acid activates the production of bile. In these diseases of the liver, the flow of bile is disturbed;
- acute viral hepatitis, acute nephritis.
Important! Children under one year of eating citrus fruits are strictly prohibited.
