What is an exotic fruit. Calorie content and chemical composition of the canister, the benefits and harms of eating. Egg fruit recipes, why you can't eat a lot and how best to use it. The drink brewed on these fruits in raw and dried form improves the function of the hematopoietic system, increases blood clotting.
From canister seeds, ground with a small amount of pulp, local residents make a mixture to eliminate stomach ulcers with low acidity and erosive gastritis.
The juice is used as an external agent in the treatment of purulent-inflammatory processes: with long-healing boils and abscesses, with trophic ulcers and with dermatological diseases of an infectious and nervous nature.
In the diet of the elderly, canisters will be a wonderful addition. At this age, metabolic processes in the body are slowed down, and a peristalsis stimulant will help solve delicate problems.
Harm and contraindications to the use of canistel
Due to its balanced composition, the pulp of the fruit gently refers to the organs of the digestive tract, does not overload the organs, therefore, diseases of the internal organs are not a contraindication to the use of canistel.
But there are conditions in which it should not be introduced into the diet:
- Individual intolerance;
- Diabetes;
- Disruption of the pancreas.
If there is an opportunity to purchase this product, you do not need to treat children under the age of 5 years. This can provoke the development of dysbiosis. The intestinal flora at this age is not stable enough, the main effect is laxative. It will be difficult to get rid of diarrhea.
Eating more than half of the fruit at a time for a person who is not used to the delicacy will cause an attack of vomiting, stomach cramps, and epigastric pain. Locals who regularly use this food product advise against eating more than half of a large canister.
Canister recipes
Eating an egg fruit raw is simple: it is simply broken in half and you can eat it. Local residents, starting their meal, use seasonings - lime or lemon juices, vinegar, pepper, soy sauce or mayonnaise. An egg fruit cocktail is prepared for tourists.
Canister recipes:
- Refreshing drink … Mix half a glass of milk, half a nutmeg, a little sugar and cinnamon. Everyone is interrupted in a blender. There is no need to chill in the refrigerator - just add ice cubes.
- Canister ice cream … Kanistel goes well with ordinary white sundae or creamy ice cream - better not very sweet. It is cut into small cubes, poured with lemon juice, let it brew. When dressing ice cream, you need to add vanilla.
- Custard with canister … Ingredients: cream 10% - 1, 5 cups, chicken eggs - 2 pieces, icing sugar - 30 g, corn flour - 2 tablespoons, vanillin - 1 g, canistel - half, lime juice, nuts - of your choice. Begin the preparation of the cream by whipping the cream: beat the eggs with a mixer into a foam with powdered sugar, add corn flour. Put cream on the fire, heat it up, but do not bring it to a boil. The egg mixture is gradually added to the container with cream, without ceasing to beat and without removing from the heat. It is more convenient to control the temperature in a water bath so that the cream does not curdle. The canistel is cut into small cubes, sprinkled with lime juice. The cream is boiled until thickened - the liquid should boil down by 1/4. Molds for muffins are greased with butter, pieces of exotic fruit are put in them, 2-3 tablespoons of custard are spread on top and put in an oven preheated to a temperature of 160-180 degrees for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, you can take out and sprinkle with nuts. A microwave oven is also used for cooking - 800 degrees, cooking for 5 minutes.
- Exotic salad … Ingredients: main ingredient - 1 kg, olive oil - 1 glass, lime and orange juices - 1 glass each, tomatoes, preferably cherry - a few pieces, maple syrup - 3 tablespoons, salt, pepper, cinnamon, vinegar, parsley to taste. Cut the canistel into cubes, the tomatoes into slices, mix all the ingredients in a large bowl to keep the cut intact, add the juice and seasonings. Sweet peppers or citrus fruits are added as an experiment with taste.
- Marmalade … Very ripe canestel, 4 pieces, peeled, pitted, cut into cubes, placed in an enamel container, poured with a glass of boiled water and sugar is poured - 0.5-1 cups. Cook until thick. Pieces of pulp should be completely boiled. Lemon or lime juice is added to the finished thickened marmalade, achieving a pleasant taste. Citric acid will not work as a flavoring agent, the taste will be sharp, unpleasant. The marmalade is laid out in molds, cooled to room temperature and put into the refrigerator.
- Salad … Kanistel can be added to salads, one of the ingredients of which is persimmon. The most successful option is the following: 1 canister fruit is cut into cubes, mixed with boiled chicken or turkey fillet cut into strips, with avocado pulp cubes and red onion rings, laid out on a dish decorated with lettuce leaves - it is torn by hand. Lettuce leaves can be substituted with spinach. Dressing - soy sauce, salt and pepper.
- Baking … The stickiness and powdery aftertaste will disappear if the egg fruit, cut into wedges, is grilled and sprinkled with lemon juice. This addition goes well to taste with any meat salads.
Only ripe yellow or orange fruits with intact skin should be selected for use in food and cooking. If there is a crack on it, the decay process immediately engulfs the entire fruit, and when cut, you can see the decomposed pulp.
Interesting facts about canistels
In the Philippines, the canistela fruit is called tyesa.
The pulp of ripe fruits is compared in structure to a hard-boiled egg or duck pate - it is called soft, loose, pulp-like.
Interestingly, when cutting the fruit, the sweetish fresh smell that occurs with ordinary fruits is absent. But this does not mean that the eater loses his appetite. On the contrary, feeling the aroma of whitewashed or fried meat pies, you want to taste the exotic fruit even more. By the way, it is as nutritious as whites or meat pies.
Tourists compare the smell of canister to the smell of a school cafeteria.
Locals consider the fruit to be a vegetable and prefer stewing or baking when cooking. Season with all available seasonings.
If you plan to use it after cooking, it is better to purchase sliced fruit pulp - this is how you can see the quality.
Canistels are grown not only as a food crop; wood is especially valued. It is durable, does not rot, and is used for the manufacture of piles and rafters.
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