Jujube is of little significance in enriching blood, so it is suggested to pay attention to its function.

As the saying goes, "Long live an eclipse of three dates." Jujube is a traditional nourishing food, one of the earliest medicinal and edible homologous ingredients, and is known as the "king of all kinds of fruits". According to Shennong Materia Medica Classic, red dates have the functions of tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and easing the medicinal properties. Modern nutrition found that jujube is rich in carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals.

The saying that red dates enrich the blood has been circulating for a long time. Many people who keep in good health drink some jujube tea or jujube soup every day. Does that red jujube have the effect of enriching blood? Are there any other benefits to eating red dates? Today, we will talk about whether red dates can replenish blood and the precautions for eating red dates.

Jujube is rich in sugar, crude fiber and minerals, such as calcium and iron. According to the determination, every100g of dried jujube contains carbohydrate 61.6g, protein 3.2g, fat 0.5g, dietary fiber 6.2g, calcium 64mg, carotene1.6mg, riboflavin 0.1.6mg and nicotinic acid 0.9. ..

1. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Jujube contains very high cyclic adenosine monophosphate, which is a very important substance for human energy metabolism. It plays an important role in eliminating fatigue, strengthening muscle strength, dilating blood vessels, improving myocardial nutrition and enhancing myocardial contraction, and has a good preventive effect on cardiovascular diseases. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate can prevent the formation of thromboxane A2 in platelets, reduce platelet aggregation, and has obvious antithrombotic effect.

Nicotinic acid contained in jujube can dilate blood vessels and reduce cholesterol content, so it can prevent and treat angina pectoris, hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis. Jujube is also rich in rutin, which can enhance the function of vitamin C in the body, promote the accumulation of vitamin C in the body, reduce blood lipid and prevent arteriosclerosis. It can also reduce the permeability and brittleness of capillaries, so it is an effective component to prevent cardiovascular diseases.

2. It is rich in various amino acids and protects the liver.

Jujube contains 8 kinds of amino acids, mainly glutamic acid, threonine and lysine, which play an important role in the synthesis of protein. Moreover, many varieties of jujube also contain histidine and arginine, which are two amino acids that children cannot effectively synthesize, and play an important role in ensuring the healthy growth of children. Vitamin C in jujube is rich in sugar, cyclic adenosine monophosphate and other components, which can effectively decompose the liver injury caused by chemical drugs to a certain extent, accelerate its protein synthesis, and achieve the effect of increasing the total protein content in serum. Jujube can be used as an adjuvant treatment for early cirrhosis and hepatitis.

Prevention of anemia

Jujube is rich in iron and calcium, which can effectively prevent osteoporosis and anemia. Menopausal middle-aged and elderly people can avoid osteoporosis by eating regularly, and women and growing teenagers can avoid poverty symptoms by eating regularly. In addition, the organic acids contained in jujube mainly include betulinic acid, betulinic acid, oleanolic acid, malic acid, catechuic acid and tartaric acid.

Chinese medicine believes that jujube is warm, sweet and non-toxic, and enters the spleen, heart and stomach meridians. Has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, invigorating qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and can be used for treating spleen deficiency, anorexia, loose stool, and female mania. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Jujube is sweet and non-toxic, calming the middle and strengthening the spleen, calming the stomach and clearing the nine orifices." Jujube is commonly used in Chinese medicine for palpitation, forgetfulness, insomnia and irregular menstruation caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen and deficiency of qi and blood. The special nutritional value of jujube mainly lies in the contents of cyclic adenosine monophosphate, rutin, jujube polysaccharide, triterpenoids and other nutritional components, which may be related to the blood-enriching effect of jujube.

The research shows that jujube does have a certain blood-enriching effect, but from the nutritional point of view, jujube has little to do with its iron content. Although red dates contain high iron content, they are non-hemoglobin iron, which is easily influenced by dietary factors, so the absorption rate of human body is not high.

The blood-enriching function of jujube may be mainly due to the effect of polysaccharide in jujube on hematopoietic system and promoting hematopoiesis. Polysaccharide is an effective component of jujube to promote hematopoiesis, and its mechanism may be to indirectly stimulate the proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells and hematopoietic progenitor cells by starting the hematopoietic regulatory system of the body. In addition, vitamin C can form a soluble chelate with iron, which can also be dissolved at the high pH value of iron, obviously promoting the absorption of non-heme iron. Vitamin C can reduce ferric iron which is difficult to be absorbed in the intestine to ferrous iron which is easy to be absorbed, and increase the iron intake of human body. Moreover, flavonoids, vitamin C and other active ingredients in red dates can scavenge free radicals, have antioxidant effects, prevent thrombosis and platelet agglomeration, and also play a certain role in enriching blood.

In addition, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine theory holds that qi and blood are the material basis for maintaining lung function. Qi can produce blood, and essence and blood are homologous. Blood-enriching drugs achieve the purpose of blood-enriching by replenishing qi and blood, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. Jujube has the effect of tonifying the middle energizer, so it also has a certain effect on blood deficiency. Generally speaking, jujube has a certain effect of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, but it is not ideal. If you want to supplement iron through diet, it is recommended to use animal liver, animal blood, red meat and other foods.

According to the record of jujube consumption in Compendium of Materia Medica, "Eating too much makes people cold and hot, and anyone who wins thin can't eat it", so the daily consumption of jujube should be controlled within 50 grams. Jujube is not recommended for diabetics because of its high sugar content. Patients with loss of appetite and abdominal distension are not recommended to eat.

In addition, jujube is sweet, warm and wet, and it is very easy to produce phlegm and dampness. After excessive consumption of jujube, people with phlegm-dampness constitution can easily aggravate their illness and have symptoms such as bloating and thirst. Because the child's spleen and stomach function is relatively weak, and jujube is sticky and very difficult to digest, eating more may affect the child's digestive function and appetite. At the same time, jujube has a high sugar content, and children who eat more may cause dental caries.

There are many ways to eat red dates, such as steaming, stewing, stewing and boiling. One of the most commonly used methods is decoction. Wash 1 0 ~ 30g of red dates, draw a straight line on the skin of red dates with a knife to help nutrients overflow, and then add a proper amount of water to boil for about1hour. You can also add red dates to porridge to make jujube porridge. In addition, it is also a common method to process jujube into jujube lotus seed soup and jujube peanut soup. You can also like to put a few red dates as seasoning when making soup, and also like to add red dates when steaming chicken, stewed mutton or meatless.