What are the characteristics of apples?

Apple has high nutritional value, rich in minerals and vitamins, and also rich in calcium, which helps to metabolize excess salt in the body. Malic acid can metabolize calories and prevent obesity in the lower body. Apple is one of the fruits that people often eat.

Apple's characteristics:

1, and the water content in apples is 85%.

2. Apples contain polyphenols and flavonoids, natural chemical antioxidants and a lot of crude fiber.

3. It contains more potassium, which can be combined with excess sodium salt in human body and excreted. When the human body ingests too much sodium salt, eating some apples is beneficial to balance the electrolytes in the body.

4. It contains phosphorus, iron and other elements that are easily absorbed by the intestinal wall, and has the functions of nourishing the brain, calming the heart and sleeping peacefully.

The aroma of apple is a good medicine for depression and depression. After many experiments, experts found that among many smells, the aroma of apples has the greatest impact on people's psychology and has obvious effect on eliminating psychological depression. Clinical application has proved that the mood of patients with depression is greatly improved, and their spirits are relaxed and happy. After smelling the fragrance of apples, their depression is eliminated.

6. Malic acid in apples has whitening effect. Many people worry that the acidity of apples will corrode their teeth. Apples with cheese can limit the acidity in apples. Eating apples can also effectively help clean teeth.

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The cultural value of apple;

Because "apple" and "death" are homophonic in Wu dialect area, when patients are not visited in Wu dialect area, apples are given.

In Hongkong and other places, western apples are also called "snake fruit", but this is not because it is forbidden fruit that snakes lured Eve and Adam to eat in the Bible, but because when apples were imported from foreign countries, some people heard foreigners praise apples for their delicious taste and mistook them for mbth of apples, so they called them "snake fruit in a favorable place", hereinafter referred to as "snake fruit".

In Japanese, this kind of apple is called "Ringo", which was pronounced in Japanese during the Japanese occupation period, and Chinese characters were written as "Lingling". Traditional Taiwanese is called "PH not ng-kó" and Chinese is called "Apple". Because Taiwan Province Province is located in the subtropical zone, it relied on foreign imports before planting apples in Lishan. Apples are therefore very expensive, so eating apples at an early age has become a symbol of luxury.

Because the word "apple" is homophonic with "ping", eating apples in China is also interpreted as "safe". Eating apples on Christmas Eve is also very popular. To be clear, this trick originated in China, and there is no such tradition abroad.

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