How to eat bergamot?

Its pulp can be eaten raw or cooked, and can also be used to cook porridge and stew ribs.

After the bergamot slices are dried in the sun, soaking in wine, making tea, mixing honey and making candied fruit are all suitable. Southerners like to slice bergamot with sugar or honey and make it into preserved fruit, which has the function of invigorating qi and refreshing, and also helps digestion.

It should be noted that the word difference between bergamot and bergamot is the fruit of two different plants. Bergamot is the fruit of bergamot, a rutaceae plant, which is edible and medicinal.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bergamot tastes pungent, bitter, sour and warm, enters the liver and stomach, and has the effect of regulating qi and resolving phlegm. Therefore, in Chaoshan area, since the Ming Dynasty, bergamot has been made into the medicinal preserved fruit "hometown yellow" (also called hometown yellow, bergamot Huang Xiang), which is an essential product for Chaoshan families and has been sold now.

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Bergamot is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine. Its dried fruit slices are fragrant, slightly sweet and bitter, pungent, sour and non-toxic, and have the effects of regulating qi and resolving phlegm, soothing the liver and regulating the stomach. They are mainly used to treat cough due to phlegm retention, chest tightness and abdominal distension, liver and stomach gas pain, anorexia, nausea and vomiting. The saturated aqueous solution obtained by distillation is bergamot dew, which can treat diaphragm, relieve depression, broaden chest and stimulate appetite. High-grade essential oil extracted from leaves, flowers and fruits is the raw material of edible essence.

Bergamot fruit has golden skin color, tender meat and crisp and sweet taste, which is an important raw material for fruit processing besides fresh food. Bergamot fruit can be processed into candied bergamot, licorice bergamot, bergamot tea, bergamot dew, bergamot jelly and bergamot wine. Flowers and young fruits can be used as medicine after drying.

Bergamot has a peculiar fruit shape and a strong aroma, which is stronger than citron and more fragrant after a long time. Bergamot has long branches and leaves all year round, and it is evergreen all year round. It blooms all year round. The fruit is golden when it is ripe, and the end of the fruit stretches like a finger or clenches like a fist. Unique shape, suitable for viewing trees, leaves, flowers and fruits. Bergamot can be planted in the garden or potted.

References:

People's Network-Fairy in Fruit-Bergamot

Baidu encyclopedia-bergamot fruit