Description of Japanese tangerine Sudachi, nutritional value. What effect does citrus have on the body, restrictions on use. Cooking Uses and Variety History.
Sudachi is a hybrid Japanese mandarin artificially created from yuzu lemon and lime. Thanks to such initial species, the taste of the fruit pulp is so sour that the fruit is not eaten in its raw form, but is used as a flavoring additive for side dishes, meat, fish dishes and sauces. The size of the spherical fruit is small - up to 3 cm in diameter, the peel is thick, rough, the slices are separated from each other by a transparent film. White seeds are concentrated in the center. Even in yellow mandarin, the color of the flesh remains light green, and the taste changes from sour with bitterness to sweet.
The composition and calorie content of tangerine Sudachi
Pictured Japanese tangerine Sudachi
Nutritional value and vitamin and mineral composition of the fruit is similar to citrus fruits - lemons and limes, but with some peculiarities.
The calorie content of goad is 20-22 kcal per 100 g, of which:
- Proteins - up to 0.6 g;
- Fats - up to 0.2 g;
- Carbohydrates - 6, 9-7, 7 g.
The rest is water.
If this fruit was used to give a special taste to the dish, when determining the calorie content, one should be guided by the data given for lime.
The vitamin complex of the fruit is represented by retinol, B vitamins (from B1 to B6 with a predominance of B4). Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is 1.5-2 times more than in lemon varieties grown in the Caucasus. The mineral composition of zander is standard for lemons and limes: calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, iron, manganese, copper, zinc, selenium. Calcium is slightly more than in lime - 0.8 times.
The pulp of the fruit contains flavonoids that strengthen blood vessels and have anti-edema, immunological and anti-allergic effects.
The benefits and harms of fortune are determined by:
- neoeriocytrin - a substance with anti-toxic and antioxidant effect;
- narutin - relieves hay fever, but irritates the mucous membrane of the digestive tract.
In addition, organic acids and essential oils are present in the fruit and peel.
In 2006, scientists at the University of Tokushima investigated the properties of citrus and conducted experiments on rats. Now it is planned to manufacture fat burners based on Japanese mandarin extract. Nutritionists have noticed that there is no weight gain when using the pulp to enhance the taste of food.
Useful properties of gossip
Scientists have found that the fruit not only contains an increased amount of calcium, but also promotes its absorption from foods consumed with it. Adding fruit to the diet also lowers blood glucose levels, normalizes insulin production, and stabilizes the pancreas.
The benefits of fortune:
- It accelerates metabolic processes at all levels and induces weight loss. Experiments were conducted when the subjects, suffering from obesity, were divided into groups. In persons who, for 12 weeks, were fed with 1.3 g of dried pulp and zest of the fruit, the waist volume decreased by 1.5 cm compared to the initial one. For those who did not receive the dietary supplement, the sizes did not change with the same diet.
- Stops the absorption of lipids and stops the formation of fatty layers around the internal organs.
- Stimulates the work of the hematopoietic system, improves the quality of red blood cells and stops their destruction.
- Cleans blood vessels and tones the walls, reducing permeability.
- Improves appetite, increases the production of digestive enzymes and bile acids.
- Accelerates nerve-impulse conduction, improves memory, hearing and visual function.
- Prevents bad breath.
- Accelerates recovery from acute respiratory viral infections and acute respiratory infections, prevents the development of complications.
- Normalizes blood pressure, improves tone. Helps to recover from physical activity.
- Improves mood, restores emotional state.
- Prevents the development of caries, stomatitis, exacerbations of chronic diseases - tonsillitis and pharyngitis.
- When zander enters the oral cavity, it increases the production of saliva, which suppresses bacteria that have accumulated in the gum pockets and lacunae of the tonsils.
Regular introduction of fruit into the diet slows down age-related changes, increases skin elasticity. Masks that use fruit juice and extract whiten, stop inflammation.
Another important property of tangerine zander, which was appreciated by Japanese doctors, is that it accelerates the removal of toxic substances from the body, including heavy metals and radionuclides that have penetrated from the external environment.
The peel also has useful properties. The zest has an antiseptic effect, suppresses the activity of putrefactive bacteria and fungal flora, stops candidiasis, inhibits purulent inflammatory processes. It is used as a spice: it prevents putrefactive and fermentative processes in the intestines, has an immunological and laxative effect.
