What is a cockatoo plum. The composition and calorie content of the fruit. Useful properties and contraindications. Features of use in cooking, recipes for delicious and original dishes.
Contraindications and harm to cockatoo plum
Murunga is known to be healthier raw, but before you consume it, you should still think about the side effects. Without heat treatment on an empty stomach, it is forbidden to consume the fruit for people with gastritis, cholecystitis, peptic ulcer diseases, as well as high acidity, because a sour fruit can aggravate the disease, and you will face the harm of a cockatoo plum.
Eating large amounts of the fruit can cause an allergic reaction. Also, an excess of ascorbic acid contributes to the thickening of the blood, so do not exceed the intake of cockatoo plums for people suffering from thrombophlebitis.
When using such concepts as individual intolerance should not be excluded. Therefore, you need to very carefully introduce the product into the diet of children and nursing mothers.
And, finally, we can say that the Australian plum can bring harm in the long term to anyone who will abuse it.
How to eat murunga
In its raw form, the fruit is eaten whole with the peel, spitting out the seeds. One of the most common ways of serving plums for tourists is considered to be soft drinks: a bone is removed from the fruit, ground with sugar, poured with soda and served to quench thirst. Delicious compotes are also brewed.
In cooking, cockatoo plum can be found in various desserts, jams or jellies as the main ingredient. It is also added to exotic salads, side dishes, prepared sauces from the extract, or used as a seasoning.
Australian Plum Recipes
It is best to first cut the fruit in half, remove the bone, and then use it for cooking, together with the peel, because it is also filled with useful vitamins and minerals.
Delicious Plum Cockatoo Recipes:
- Mousse … To prepare it, you need to beat 4 proteins with one glass of sugar until a stable foam, until it completely dissolves. Combine gently with 100 grams of whipped cream. Plums, about 300 grams, must be pitted and mashed. This is done together with the peel, since they are small and it is rather difficult to peel them off. Soak 6 grams of agar agar in cold water for 10 minutes, then squeeze it lightly and dissolve in the plum puree, heating it on the stove. Then cool to room temperature and mix with the protein-creamy mixture. Divide the mousse into clear glass goblets, refrigerate for several hours, and serve cold as a dessert.
- Ice cream … Grate two medium bananas in mashed potatoes. Cut the plums (about 200 grams) in half, remove the seeds and puree with a hand blender. Then rub the mass through a sieve to get rid of large skin particles. Combine with mashed banana. Boil a syrup from 100 grams of sugar and 70 milliliters of water. Cool and add to the fruit-banana mass. Add a cup of coconut milk and vanilla extract. Stir everything until smooth, put in molds and put in the freezer until it cools completely. It is necessary to open and stir the cream periodically so that it does not turn into regular popsicles. Recommended to serve in bowls, beautifully garnished with mint sprigs or nuts.
- Healing cocktail of cockatoo plum … This cleansing and rejuvenating cocktail is consumed by many Australians in the morning on an empty stomach. It should be cooked in the evening and kept in the refrigerator overnight. To prepare it, you need to combine one small banana, one teaspoon of liquid honey, 200 grams of Australian plum puree, 2 tablespoons of oatmeal, one cup of protein or vanilla broth in a shaker or a bowl of a blender, and put everything in layers like this, pour it over with a cup of almond milk, do not stir. Put in the refrigerator overnight as it is. All components will combine well overnight. In the morning, beat the mixture until smooth in a blender or shake with a shaker and drink.
Interesting facts about the plum cockatoo
This fruit is very beneficial for the skin. The fruit extract is widely used in cosmetology. It is added to the manufacture of various creams, serums and masks with rejuvenating and nourishing effects, when using which the skin regains its natural radiance and elasticity.
Vitamin C is a very necessary component for the skin. It fights dark spots, smoothes scars, and helps absorb ultraviolet rays. And plum contains a huge amount of this component. Also, ascorbic acid promotes the production of proline, which creates collagen.
Plum cockatoo extract is added to hair masks and shampoos. It moisturizes hair thanks to collagen and elastin, which are essential for healthy and shiny curls.
It is used in cosmetology and the pure pulp of this fruit. If you mix it with clay, you can easily get rid of small pimples, and the result will be noticeable within 10 minutes after application. And if you do such a mask several times a week, then after the fourth application there will be obvious improvements. The skin will be clean and radiant.
Plum multiplies with seeds. Grows in humid forests in northern Australia, in the wilderness of an isolated community. This means that it gives a socially important crop for indigenous peoples. People grow seedlings, harvest crops and sell them in Australian markets. This creates jobs for them and makes horticulture a stable industry.
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Despite the fact that the fruits are so useful and widely used both in medicine and in cosmetology, only Australians are destined to taste the fruit, and, of course, tourists. And all the rest of the inhabitants of the planet will have to be content with cosmetic products with cockatoo plum extract. Alternatively, you can order it dry.
