Description of Indian dilation. Caloric content of fruits and chemical composition. Useful properties of the plant and harm when used. How chulta is eaten and what dishes are prepared. Features of cultivation. The carbohydrates contained in fruits contain 34% sugars.
The mineral composition of elephant apples is represented by iron, magnesium, phosphorus.
Chulta is eaten with pleasure by people and animals. Fruits in varying degrees of ripeness have special culinary qualities.
Useful properties of an elephant apple
For medicinal purposes, all parts of the plant are used - roots, bark, leaves and fruits, both mature and immature.
Benefits of Indian dilution:
- Antioxidant action, isolates free radicals circulating in the bloodstream and intestinal lumen.
- High antimicrobial activity of juice and fruit extract, infusions of chalta leaves.
- Relieves intestinal spasms, eliminates flatulence, helps to get rid of old toxins, has a sorbing effect.
- Accelerates the regeneration of the skin, has antifungal activity. When applied externally, it helps to get rid of dandruff, when taken orally - to normalize the intestinal microflora.
- In case of complications of colds, it is used to dilute sputum and enhances expectorant properties. Preference in the manufacture of decoctions is given to unripe fruits, boiled with cane sugar.
- It has antiproliferative and antileukemic activity.
- Stabilizes the work of the pancreas, normalizes blood sugar levels.
- Rapidly restores heart rate, helps maintain stable blood pressure.
- Prevents the development of osteoporosis, slows down bone loss.
- Has a mild choleretic effect, accelerates the digestion of fatty foods.
- Used in the treatment of anemia. The pronounced effect on the hematopoietic system makes it possible to include ripe fruits in the diet of patients who have suffered from large blood loss. Recommended for women with an irregular menstrual cycle - with prolonged and heavy bleeding.
- It removes the bitter taste in the mouth and eliminates the stench caused by congestion in the stomach due to low acidity.
- Ripe fruits increase the tone of the body, which helps to get rid of severe fatigue and recover from exhausting stress.
- Decoctions from bark leaves stop diarrhea, organic, stress-induced, and infectious.
The fruit contains a high amount of betulinic acid. Thanks to this substance, the fruits are used to relieve intoxication in infectious diseases of various etiologies, poisoning with vapors of heavy metals, mercury.
Locals use the pulp of the fruit for the bites of tarantulas and poisonous spiders. For the manufacture of the mixture, an infusion of the pulp of unripe fruits and young fresh leaves of the plant is used.
Decoctions of the bark are used as an external remedy to eliminate the symptoms of arthritis, sciatica and gout. Used as rubbing, compresses and lotions.
Contraindications and harm of chulta
Like all tropical fruits, chulta often causes allergic manifestations in European residents unaccustomed to this product. The use of dilution of Indian harm can cause with increased acidity of gastric juice, hypotension, with severe diarrhea.
The dangerous properties of fruits are due to maleic acid. A small amount is harmless and is independently excreted by the body, especially since the pulp of chalta contains the main neutralizer - betulinic acid.
If a tree grew in an ecologically dangerous area or unripe fruits are not sufficiently processed, the balance of these substances is disturbed, and then the introduction into the diet may end in failure.
How is an elephant apple eaten?
Chulta is edible even when not ripe enough. The juice of such fruits is added to marinades, pickles, various sour sauces.
Locals eat dilution Indian like Europeans oranges or grapefruits. The best breakfast tonic is ripe fruit juice or chilled pulp puree with honey.
Ripe fruits are used to make jelly, marmalade, various soft drinks, and the leaves are added to salads.
Chulta recipes
The culinary uses are wide enough. It is introduced as an ingredient in desserts, snacks and hot dishes. When choosing a fruit, you should make sure that the peel is firm, with no signs of rotting and gloss. If the skin is shiny, it means that in order to extend the shelf life, the chulta was treated with chemicals, and it is not recommended to treat yourself to raw pulp. The larger and more fragrant the fruit, the more ripe it is.
Delicious Indian Delicious Recipes:
- Sauce for meat and fish … Finely chop the onion head, squeeze 2-3 garlic cloves. Fry in a pan until golden brown, add flour, 1 teaspoon, stir until the mixture is completely homogeneous. Unripe fruits of chalta, 2 pieces, are rubbed, laid out in a pan, lemon juice is squeezed there - from half a large citrus, a glass of chicken broth and 3 tablespoons of olive oil are poured. Stew for 5 minutes in a pan, constantly stirring the mixture, then add a teaspoon of curry. Remove from heat when the liquid is 1/3 evaporated.
- Sweet and sour chutney sauce … The sauce is multicomponent, so if you are prone to allergic reactions, you should not even try it. The dish contains: unripe dilution - 1 piece, onions - 1 piece, lemon - half, chili - half a pod, garlic - 3 prongs, sugar - 2 tablespoons, a teaspoon of grated nutmeg, turmeric, ground ginger, mustard seeds. Salted to taste. Express option - the ingredients are mixed together. But there is also a second option, a more complicated one - this sauce is served in Indian restaurants. The pulp of the fruit is cut into small cubes and poured with lemon juice. Pour in sugar and bring to a boil over low heat. Cook for 20 minutes. Separately in a frying pan, in butter, fry onions, garlic, grated ginger root, chili. Spread out the stewed fruit puree, add all the seasonings - turmeric, mustard seeds, nutmeg. You can add salt and a little pepper. Cool at room temperature and refrigerate. You can serve it only after a day, when it is infused.
- Jelly … Chulta, 2 pieces (200 g), cut into cubes, after removing the seeds, put in a saucepan, pour a glass of water, add 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar, a quarter teaspoon of citric acid. If there is a lemon, then 3-4 tablespoons of juice are poured in instead of acid. Pour a tablespoon of gelatin with a little water, let it brew. And at this time, the pulp is extinguished. After 10 minutes, the syrup with chulta is removed from the heat, gelatin is poured into it, stirred and everything is poured into molds. Put it in the refrigerator to freeze everything. Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving.
- Exotic salad … Chulta is cut into cubes and cooled. Separately mix in a ceramic or enamel bowl 1, 5 cups of diced jicama, a glass of papaya with the same cut, feta cheese - 2 tablespoons, hot red pepper and half a jalapeno pod. Pour in a quarter of a glass of fresh lime juice, add, if necessary, mix everything. A bunch of cilantro is chopped up, and then all the ingredients are mixed and immediately served until the pulp of the Indian dilution is heated. Warm salad loses its taste. The gas station can also be cooled.
- Jam … 5-10 chalta fruits are peeled, cut into small cubes and poured into an enamel pan. Fall asleep with sugar - 1-1, 3 kg, pour in fresh orange juice from one citrus, leave the container for 2-3 hours. Before you start cooking the jam, add a glass of water to the pan, add 2 tablespoons of grated ginger root, a teaspoon of vanilla. When the mixture thickens, add half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon just before turning it off. Turn off, allow to cool to room temperature, lay out in sterilized jars.
- Smoothie … To make a smoothie, chulta pulp is interrupted in a blender along with other tropical fruits, preferably with sourness - kiwi, pineapple, sapote, or any citrus fruits. If the mixture is very thick, dilute with cold sparkling water.
To keep the Indian dilution longer, each fruit is wrapped in parchment and placed in a plastic bag. Before putting it on the shelf in the refrigerator, holes are necessarily pierced in the bag so that the chulta can "breathe", otherwise rotting will quickly begin. Mechanical stress should be excluded.
Interesting facts about Indian dilation
Carl Linnaeus began to study the plant, but his colleague from Oxford brought the work to the end, who appropriated the botanical name by his surname Dillenius.
More often trees are found in the floodplains of tropical rivers: the fruits fall into the water, then they are washed ashore, where a new plant grows. But that's not the only way elephant apples are spread. If the fruit that has fallen from the tree is eaten by elephants, they can transfer the seeds many kilometers from the "native tree".
If the chulta has not been eaten, it will not be lost either. In the hot season, the fruit dries up, the thick peel cracks, termites crawl under it and eat the pulp. Ground is swept into the faults, and then the seeds germinate, further breaking through the shell. In the rainy season, germination is accelerated - the fruit rots, and the seeds swell quickly from moisture.
The plant is used not only for food and medicinal purposes. Wood is widely used, which was taken from the reservoirs on the banks of which the tree grew. After 3 years, it becomes so strong that cannons were once made from it. Now it is the main building material for log cabins of peasant houses.
The leaves are dried and mixed with sand. It is poured into pets' stalls or used in place of cat litter. This additive protects animals from skin parasites. Also, dried leaves are used in the manufacture of souvenirs for polishing ivory or cow horns.
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At home, the plant is formed as a bush, the height of which does not exceed 1.5 m. Abundant watering and sunlight are necessary conditions for the opening of the buds. It is impossible to get a harvest of Indian dilution at home, but you can admire the flowers. True, you will have to get up for this in the middle of the night. The petals do not bloom earlier than three, and by the morning they are already closed. We can say that this plant is for "owls". Larks will only have time to see the closing buds.
