What are the benefits of eating fresh dates in autumn?

The weather is slowly getting cooler, and the craze for eating watermelon in summer has passed. In contrast, more of us start to eat autumn fruits in autumn, and there are more people in autumn. The representative fruit is jujube, so today we will tell you about the health benefits of eating jujube in autumn.

Fresh dates are not only sweet, crisp and juicy, but also rich in nutrients, including the highest vitamin C content, with 243 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams. In addition, it contains far more carotene necessary for the human body than other jujube products.

However, fresh dates will lose their crisp texture in a few days at room temperature. In order to facilitate storage, fresh dates can be dried in the sun to make dried dates. However, after the dates are dried, water-soluble vitamin C is lost, which also has a greater impact on other nutrients. But the calcium content in dried dates is higher than that in fresh dates.

Drunk dates are rich in flavor, crisp and sweet, and can be stored for a long time. However, the nutritional loss of drunk dates is greater, and almost all the vitamin C in them is destroyed. However, because drunken dates lose a lot of water after drying, and after soaking in wine, the mineral content increases, so the calcium content of drunken dates is the best among these types of jujube products, containing 75 mg per 100 grams.

Making fresh dates into candied fruit is another way to preserve them, but candied dates have higher calories, containing 78 or 9 grams of carbohydrates per 100 grams.

Fresh dates are best eaten raw, which is beneficial to the absorption of nutrients. Dried dates are more suitable for cooking porridge or soup, and can release nutrients well. Compared with fresh dates and dried dates, candied dates have the least nutrients and the highest sugar content. They are also best used to make porridge, which can dilute the sugar concentration in candied dates.

Autumn is relatively dry, but red dates are warm and sweet in nature and taste. They enter the spleen and stomach meridian and have the functions of nourishing the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and promoting body fluid, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and detoxifying.