Loved from childhood, fresh peach, which has a special aroma and delicate taste, grows in southern regions with a mild climate. The historical homeland of this wonderful fruit, scientists consider the Central and Northern part of China, where to this day you can find the eponymous wild almond tree.
From Celestial, the sweet and
juicy fruit migrated to the paradise gardens of Persia, then the Greeks grew it. In the 16th century, they began to cultivate it with pleasure in Europe, in the southern regions of Ukraine and Russia, where they called it the “Persian apple”.
What is famous for peach?
Useful properties and contraindications from its use were known to Chinese healers in ancient times. For the curative effect of the "thousand ailments" he was called in those days the "imperial fruit", symbolizing the strength of health and longevity. At the turn of the fourth millennium, Chinese gardeners became aware of the ability of fragrant fleshy peach fruits to give vitality, cure a person of digestive problems, anemia, heart disease.
In addition to fruits, peach flowers and leaves are still used in traditional and alternative medicine. Oil squeezed from peaches is widely used in cosmetology, medicine, and the food industry. The modern beauty industry uses it in the treatment of cellulite. A massage with peach seed oil stimulates the metabolism, helps fight hated subcutaneous fat deposits and significantly improves the appearance of the skin, giving it softness and velvety.
What kind of peach is he? Useful properties and contraindications from the use of juicy sweet pulp
This fruit of a rosaceous tree, sunny and juicy, with a refreshing sweet and sour pleasant taste - like greetings from the warm south, can be velvety, covered with many soft villi, smooth (it is called nectarine) or fig. Inside the peach pulp is colored by nature in white or yellow, orange or red. The surface of the peach is found as bright: yellow, red, yellow-red, and discreet, yellow-green colors. The fruit inside is provided with a large bone, covered with deep grooves filled with the pulp of the fruit. Peach weight can vary from 150-200 g to very large specimens weighing 500 g!
Therapeutic use of ripe peach fruits
They use peach, whose beneficial properties and contraindications have long been known as a diet dessert. Its calorie content is from 44 to 48 kcal per 100 g of product, and 200 ml of peach juice contains only 60 kcal! An ideal way to enjoy yourself without worrying about extra centimeters at the waist! In addition, modern nutritionists have confirmed that by consuming no more than 3-4 fresh peach fruits per day during the ripening season, you can visibly build and saturate the body with many useful vitamins, minerals, organic acids, carotene, pectins and essential oils. Peach is rich in fiber, which improves intestinal motility, potassium, strengthens blood vessels and heart muscle, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, copper, selenium and zinc. These fruits are recommended for food to people with low acidity of the stomach, with anemia, arrhythmias, undergoing stress or any surgical intervention.
Who else shows peaches? Useful properties during pregnancy can improve the well-being of a woman, relieve signs of toxicosis, quench hunger and thirst, without harming the figure, and get all the necessary micronutrients for carrying a child. Magnesium helps calm the nervous system, potassium - remove excess fluid and eliminate swelling, calcium - strengthen bone tissue, phosphorus normalizes the musculoskeletal system, iron will increase hemoglobin levels, and folic acid is necessary for the development of the unborn baby.
Fig peach : useful properties and its difference from the classic look
This variety of peach is attractive not only for its original form, but also for its uniform taste: white flesh does not lose its sweetness from peel to bone. Moreover, they are separated from each other with ease. The calorie content of fig peach is significantly lower than that of the classic one: 30-32 kcal per 100 g of wonderful dessert!
Who should limit or exclude peaches?
With an individual allergy, increased acidity of the stomach, the presence in the history of diabetes mellitus or obesity, you should be careful about such a delicious dessert as peach. Useful properties and contraindications are often interrelated: the tonic effect of these tasty fruits and juice from them may be undesirable for people with an excitable nervous system.