Features of the Chinese Hosu pear, calorie content, chemical composition. Useful properties and possible harm when used. What can be made from juicy fruit. How to grow a variety on a personal plot. Having eaten only one pear, you can replenish the daily reserve of ascorbic acid by 8% and 45% copper. To speed up weight loss, nutritionists recommend consuming 2-3 fruits a day.
Benefits of Hosu Pear
Fruit is advised to be eaten with the peel. It is rough, but contains dietary fiber and pectin, which stabilize peristalsis and help cleanse the stomach of toxins and toxins.
The benefits of the Chinese hosu pear for the body:
- It increases the immune status, has an anti-inflammatory effect, and reduces the production of histamine.
- Stimulates the production of digestive enzymes and has a mild choleretic effect.
- Strengthens the condition of the skeletal system, improves the condition of teeth, skin and hair.
- Normalizes the work of the cardiovascular and urinary systems, prevents the formation of edema.
- Maintains blood pressure at the level necessary for the normal functioning of the human body.
- With active training, it helps the formation of muscle tissue, eliminates cramps in the lower extremities.
- Prevents age-related changes, improves the condition of the skin, normalizes the production of sebum.
- Improves the functioning of the hematopoietic system, stimulates the production of red blood cells, increases blood clotting.
- Improves brain activity, maintains emotional stability.
- It has an antioxidant effect, isolates free radicals circulating in the intestines.
- Prevents the formation of neoplasms in the digestive organs and the reproductive system.
Hosu pears are especially useful for pregnant women. The pulp contains a large amount of folic acid, without which the normal formation of the organic systems of the fetus is impossible. In addition, it is very important for the expectant mother to always be in a good mood, and with a lack of this substance, they fall into depression.
Traditional healers in China advise people prone to sudden attacks of weakness to carry slices of dried khosu with them and put them under the root of the tongue if they suddenly feel sick. High carbohydrates stimulate energy production and fainting can be prevented.
Harm and contraindications to the use of josu pear
Not everyone can add sweet juicy fruits to their diet.
From the consumption of the Chinese hosu pear, harm may appear:
- With diabetes mellitus, the fruits are very sweet;
- With chronic pancreatitis in an exacerbation stage, an intestinal disorder can be provoked;
- If heartburn often suffers, as the acidity of the stomach increases;
- With increased flatulence - an already large amount of intestinal gases increases several times, the condition is aggravated.
You should not eat pears during breaks between workouts, so as not to provoke hepatic colic.
Pregnant women can safely replace the usual European varieties with Chinese ones - this is even beneficial for the developing fetus. But small children under 3 years old should be given fruit, observing the general condition. For babies, one of the main types of food is whole milk, and fruits of this type are not combined with it.
How Chinese Hosu pears are eaten
There is hardly a person who does not know how to handle pears. You can bite off pieces from the whole fruit, cut off slices with a knife, peel the peel first.
How to eat Chinese hosu pears correctly:
- Eat only ripe fruits so as not to provoke indigestion or diarrhea; in addition, the astringency of the fruit can induce vomiting.
- Do not eat fruit on an empty stomach.
- Do not combine raw pear with meat products.
- You should not feast on juicy fruits at night - because of the diuretic effect, you will not be able to get enough sleep.
But juicy pieces can be safely added to cottage cheese, kefir or yogurt. Unlike other varieties, hosu is combined with fermented milk products.
Hosu Chinese Pear Recipes
Hosu is popular with restaurateurs. Pears are added to side dishes, sauces for meat and seafood, caramelized, baked, used as a filling for baking.
Chinese Hosu Pear Recipes:
- Pear and pumpkin soup … 4 hosus are peeled, cored, poured with a mixture of vinegar and water - 1: 4, to marinate. At this time, ripe pumpkin is interrupted with a blender - you need half a glass of mashed potatoes. After 10 minutes, put the fruit pieces in a saucepan, pour the pumpkin there, fill it with water so that it covers the ingredients with 2 fingers. Boil for 30 minutes, add a handful of peeled apricot or almond kernels, simmer for the same amount of time, add salt. Turn off, use honey and soy sauce to improve the taste. By the way, some Chinese people complement the dish with fish sauce.
- Chinese tonic soup … One of the ingredients is pears. And the other 3 are special Chinese spices: Fritillary Bulb, copper apricot kernels and honey nuts. The pears are cut into small pieces, after peeling the peel, dipped in boiling water along with spices for 10 minutes, turned off. Helps to recover from a serious illness and eliminate residual cough.
- Caramelized pear in dough … Mix in an enamel bowl half a glass of wheat flour, the same amount of brown cane sugar, half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder and salt. Pour half a packet of chopped butter into the mixture and stir with your fingers, so that the butter does not have time to completely melt. A glass of rolled oats, half a glass of ground almonds and grated ginger, a quarter of a glass are poured into the same dish. The dough is placed in the refrigerator. While it cools and thickens, heat the oven to 180 ° C. In a separate bowl, mix a quarter cup of white sugar, cornstarch - 2 tablespoons, half a teaspoon each of salt and cinnamon powder. Peel 1, 8 kg of pears, cut into large slices, roll first in a sweet mixture, and then in a butter dough. Fruits are spread on a baking sheet, on parchment. Set in the oven for 40-60 minutes. Serve warm caramelized pear.
- Chinese pear salad … Cut 4 khosu pears into cubes, crush 4 cloves of garlic, cut 150 g of hard cheese into cubes, mix all the ingredients. The salad is seasoned with mayonnaise.
- Vinegar salad … Boil half a glass of balsamic vinegar with a teaspoon of brown sugar, add a quarter teaspoon of salt, boil until the amount of vinegar is halved. Heat olive oil, a quarter of a glass, in a frying pan, fry 2 stalks of thinly chopped leek, also add salt. Fruse salad - 250 g - tear with hands, put on a plate, pour pears - 2 pieces, cut into thin slices. Season with balsamic syrup and sprinkle with black pepper.
- Beef with Chinese pears … First, prepare the marinade by mixing 3 tablespoons of soy sauce, 2 tbsp. l. sugar and crushed sesame seeds, 4 finely chopped green onion feathers, 6 crushed garlic teeth, 3 tablespoons of sesame oil. Grind until the sugar is completely dissolved and a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Beef, 100 g, cut into pieces and placed in the marinade, leave in the refrigerator. Hosu pears are peeled, cut into strips, poured with sweet water: 4 tablespoons of sugar in a glass of cold water, also put into the refrigerator. Whisk 1 egg yolk with salt before serving. Spread a leaf of lettuce on a plate, pickled beef on it, in a ring, pour whipped yolk into the center. Sprinkle with crushed pine nuts on top. If the dish is prepared for a European, you need to marinate the meat for up to 2 days, the Chinese cook all the ingredients within an hour.
- Spicy appetizer … Chinese cabbage, 1 kg, washed, dipped in salt water, cutting the heads of cabbage in half so that everything is salted evenly. Separate 2 leaves and pickle separately. Leave the cabbage in salt water for 7-8 hours. Salted cabbage is washed and discarded in a colander. They make a dressing: a tablespoon of rice flour is diluted in 50 g of cold water, achieving the consistency of a paste (once wallpaper was glued on this). You can boil rice to a sticky state if you could not find flour of an increased starch grade. Cut into strips 100 g of daikon radish and half of the khosu pear, a small bunch of onions - in 5 cm strips, a third of the onion - in half rings. In a blender, grind 2 tablespoons of chopped garlic, a third of a tablespoon of ginger root, 40 g of fish sauce and rice "paste", an incomplete tablespoon of sugar. Smear with sauce half of salted cabbage heads with leaves, put in a container, cover on top with 2 separate sheets, and put oppression on top. The day is kept at room temperature, and then 3 days on the shelf in the refrigerator.
You can make jam and jam from hosu, but such use will not be rational. This variety is a gourmet ingredient.
Interesting facts about the Hosu pear
The Khosu tree is not tall - even without pruning, it does not grow over 4 m. This is due to its early maturity and high yield, which retards growth processes. Fruit can be harvested as early as the second year after planting. The positive qualities of the plant distinguish it favorably from other species: increased frost resistance, high resistance to pests.
Self-pollination occurs due to the wind, so you should not plant next to other types of pears. Due to the possibility of cross contamination of pollen, the variety will not be preserved.
The fruits are harvested from November to December, completely robbing the tree. The harvest can be removed in 3 times: if you take proper care of the trees, then ripening occurs gradually. Pears are considered ripe when the pulp becomes sweet, with a slight aftertaste of spicy astringency and spices, cinnamon and star anise, while the skin remains firm and slightly rough.
It is impossible to understand by the smell whether the pears are ripe or not. And this is not explained by a dense shell that does not allow ether compounds to pass through. The cut flesh exudes almost no aroma.
The winter variety is suitable for long-term storage, but this does not mean that the pear can be kept on the windowsill for six months. As with any fruit, the hosu should be refrigerated after purchase. On a shelf, a pear can last up to 2 weeks. All this time, useful properties are preserved in full.
In addition to Hosu, other types of Neshi varieties are also popular:
- The main variety with peach-colored flesh;
- Korean pear with a husu-like skin with a sweet and sour taste and delicate flesh;
- Kosu - smaller in size than hosu, but softer, and, accordingly, deteriorates faster;
- Morning freshness - early ripening, bright green rind, small size.
The nutritional value and useful properties of Chinese pears are approximately the same, but the taste is different.
Watch a video about the Chinese hosu pear:
If you want to surprise your loved ones with a new variety, preference should be given to khosa or morning freshness. These species tolerate temperature changes better and will easily take root on personal plots in central Russia.
