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Various fruits originated there

1, coconut: coconut is a typical tropical crop, but also one of the tropical landscape plants. Hainan coconut all over the island, cultivation has been more than 2000 years of history, to the southeast coastal area for more, of which Wenchang County enjoys "Wenchang coconut half of Hainan" reputation. Coconut trees bloom and fall in all seasons, fruit constantly, a tree at the same time there are flowers, young fruit, young fruit, old fruit, can be called "four generations of the same family". Coconut meat, juice are younger than the old delicious, juice to drink on the spot picked fresh coconut juice for the beauty. Coconut is widely used, coconut meat can be processed into a variety of foods, used to stewed chicken, will become one of the Hainan delicacies. Coconut water is rich in protein, fat and a variety of vitamins, to promote cell regrowth, can drink, sweet relief, Qiongya Column of the Red Army had instead of glucose water injected into the vein to maintain life; leaf meat containing 35.5% fat and a large number of can wake up, help the human body protein synthesis and aphrodisiacs zinc, can be eaten can also be made of coconut cream, cream, coconut can be burned to make activated charcoal; coconut root boiled in water to treat inflammation; and the "Coconut Seat" back in the Han Dynasty is the court of the emperor. In the Han Dynasty is the tribute of the court. Before the Han Dynasty, coconut was called "Yue Wang Tou" (Yue people are the ancestors of the ancient Le people). Legend has it that the King of Le celebrated his victory in a fortress because he had won a battle and was negligent in guarding his fortress. He was assassinated by a spy during the dinner party, and his head was hung on a flagpole to notify the enemy to come and attack the fortress. When the enemy attacked the fortress, ten thousand arrows were fired at the defenders of the city wall, but the arrows fell on the flagpole one after another. The flagpole gradually grew thicker and taller and turned into a coconut tree, the arrows turned into coconut leaves, and the head of King Le turned into a coconut fruit. The enemy was frightened by this sight and retreated without a fight. The coconut tree became the symbol of the Li people. When you peel off the coconut palm, you will see three dark eyes on the coconut shell, which are the eyes and mouth of the King of Li.

2, mango: mango flesh is delicate, sweet odor, rich in vitamins, has a "tropical fruit king" of the name. Mango blossom in January each year, May, June ripe, fall mango in September, October is the harvest season. Fresh fruit for raw food, can also be processed into canned, cold fruit and flavorful drinks. Hainan Island has a long history of planting mango, is the main producing areas of mango in China. Here are many varieties, including ivory mango, white jade mango, green mango, Luzon mango, egg mango, Longjing large mango and autumn mango are rare for the mainland of China.

3: pineapple: pineapple, also known as pineapple, pineapple family fruit vine genus, monocotyledonous perennial herbaceous plants, tropical, subtropical fruit. With digestion, insect repellent, diuretic and other medicinal value, or Hainan delicious dishes ingredients. It is the summer summer fruit, juice contains can help digest protein pineapple prion enzyme. Fresh food can clear heat and diuretic. Hainan cultivation of pineapple has a hundred years of history, the main varieties are introduced from Malaysia, "Shalawar" species, the varieties of good quality, high yield. Pineapple is the largest production of tropical fruits in Hainan, all over the island are planted. Many tourists eat pineapples in Hainan and find them sweeter and more flavorful than those produced elsewhere. Pineapple is mainly eaten raw, but can also be fried with diced chicken and meat, the flavor is different.

4, pineapple honey: also known as wood pineapple, tree pineapple, Hainan specializes in a tropical mulberry evergreen trees. Fruit ripe in June to July, the fruit is huge, the heaviest up to 40 kilograms, known as the king of fruits, tropical fruit queen, the fruit is huge, the heavy one has 20 to 25 kilograms. It fruits on the trunk or main branch, also called "tree pineapple", "wooden pineapple". Native to India, Malaysia, introduced to Hainan Island has a hundred years of history, the island is widely cultivated. There are more than 30 varieties of pineapple nectar, which are divided into two categories: hard meat and soft meat. It blossoms in the spring of each year, and the fruit ripens in summer and fall, with an overflowing aroma when ripe. The flesh contains sugar, fat and protein, with a deep sweet flavor; the kernel and core contain starch, which is edible and tastes like chestnut. Fruits in the trunk, hidden countless golden-yellow meat packets, fat and soft, sweet and delicious, rich flavor; local young people will chew a few chewing gum as a date, can change the oral odor; in addition, there is also the role of health and longevity. The older the tree is, the bigger the fruit is, the harder the wood is, and it is called "old and strong".

5, lychee: "king of all fruits" reputation. Cultivation in Hainan Island has a long history, mainly distributed in Qiongshan City, Yongxing, Shi Shan and many other towns. Better quality varieties of Yangshan City, Qiongshan City, Goose Egg Lychee, Lychee, yellow skin clove, toad red and so on. Lychee's nutritional value is very high, juicy flesh, taste sweet and aromatic, fresh food is the best, but also can be processed into canned food, brewing, preserves and so on. In the area of Yongxing, Shishan, Mei'an, Thu Tan, Ten An Road, Longqiao, 10,000 acres of litchi connected to a sea of green, very spectacular. Due to the absorption of a variety of mineral elements of the soil in the volcanic zone, Yongxing litchi taste good, nutrient-rich, produced litchi honey is particularly nourishing. The better quality varieties include Goose Egg Lychee, Coreless Lychee, Yellow-skinned Clove and Toad Red from Yangshan, Qiongshan County. Litchi has high nutritional value. Its flesh is juicy and sweet. It has aroma and is best eaten fresh, but can also be processed into canned food, wine-making and candied fruit.

6, bananas: one of the main fruits of Hainan, Hainan Island is also one of the origin, planting a year that the results on the market, the southern region faster, planting seedlings 6-8 months on the results. Mainly in Lingshui, Sanya, Ledong, Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, Chengmai, Lingao and so on. Banana banana flesh is fragrant, banana skin has lime green and goose-yellow, peel off the skin, the flesh is goose-yellow, sweet and delicious, fragrant. They are available in all seasons. Famous varieties include tall bananas, short bananas, oil bananas, Saigon bananas, pink bananas, bud bananas, egg bananas and so on. The red banana successfully cultivated by the two hospitals in South China is a rare variety of tropical fruits with good appearance and excellent taste. Bananas are rich in nutrients, in addition to fresh food, but also can be processed into canned food, can also be dried, sun-dried into banana powder, banana chips or fermented wine, and can be deep-processed into banana flavor, as a variety of beverage aroma.

7, longan: also known as Gui Yuan, Lychee Slave, is one of Hainan Island's famous fruit. It is thin skin, crisp flavor sweet, fruit shape round, large as a thumb, small as an index finger. Processed and dried after removing the skin is known as round meat, can be used in traditional Chinese medicine. Hainan longan varieties, origin mainly in the Yongxing area of Qiongshan City. Every year, after the lychee harvest, longan immediately on the market, some late-maturing varieties, to be ripe in the fragrance of osmanthus, so it is called "osmanthus". Longan has been regarded as a precious tonic since ancient times. Mostly live trees, fruit trees are tall, the trunk can be used as economic timber. It is mainly distributed in Dingan, Tunchang, Wenchang and other counties. Longan nutritious, is a valuable nourishing fortifier, fresh longan taste sweet as honey, in addition to fresh food, but also can be made into canned food, wine, paste, sauce, etc., can also be processed into Guiyuan dry meat. In addition, longan leaves, flowers, roots, nuclei can be used as medicine. Longan tree hard wood, texture detailed and beautiful, is the production of high-level furniture raw materials, and can be carved into a variety of exquisite crafts.

8, popcorn: also known as five convergence, tropical fruit trees, native to India, Vietnam. Popcorn is divided into two categories of sweet and sour. Sour popcorn fruit is large and sour flavor, more used as cooking ingredients or candied fruit ingredients; sweet popcorn for fruit to eat. Poppy contains a variety of components beneficial to human health, the treatment of stomach problems, jaundice, floral dysentery, etc. has a certain therapeutic effect. Cultivation history in Hainan has been more than a thousand years, the main places of origin are Sanya, Lingshui, Qiongshan, Wenchang, Wanning, Qionghai and other cities and counties, there are more than 10 kinds of varieties of sweet and sour poplar peach points, Hainan Province is known as a good fruit. Sweet poplar peach as fruit to eat, sour poplar peach in addition to cooking fresh fish soup, so that its flavor is more delicious, generally used for preserves. Hainan's dried poplar peaches, dried poplar peaches and other best-selling at home and abroad.

9, papaya: one of the world's three major herbaceous fruit trees, known as the country's "longevity fruit", Hainan people like to eat fruit and vegetables with valuable plants. Hainan planting has a history of more than 200 years, the general mu yield up to 500 to 600 kilograms. Its excellent quality, thin skin and thick flesh, juicy and sweet, fragrant and refreshing. Papaya is widely used, green papaya can be eaten as a vegetable, mature papaya flesh bright red, sugar, carotene, protein, vitamins and other content than other fruits much higher, and has a variety of fruit flavor. Papaya in addition to fresh food, can also be made into drinks, syrup, pectin, ice cream, dried fruit, dried fruit and so on. Papaya's medicinal value is also very high. According to foreign information, papaya is the most anti-aging and anti-aging effect of one of the five fruits.

10, the human heart fruit: the shape of this fruit is very much like the human heart, so because of the shape of the name. Fruit of the heart is native to the Americas and the West Indies, after the introduction of Hainan planting. Human heart fruit in the summer ripe on the market, each weighing 50 to 100 grams. Fruit skin is light coffee color, rough surface, immature fruit contains a lot of tannins, astringent taste, after picking need to be stored for a few days, the flesh will be ripe and then eat. The human heart fruit as a fruit to eat raw, taste very fresh, but also can be made into pulp, sun fruit dry

, brewed into fruit wine. The whole body of the human heart fruit tree there is a white gum, is the manufacture of chewing gum of the best raw materials.

11, guava: leafy, beautiful tree, colorful flowers. There are many varieties, there are green shell, copper shell, sweet green son, green skin, carmine red, jade son, agate son, sky red eggs, pink, yellow skin, soft seed. Guava fruit skin yellow with white, white with red, depending on the variety. It is juicy, sweet and nutritious, and has the effect of strengthening the stomach, refreshing the mind, tonifying the blood and nourishing the kidneys.

12, the durian: the cottonwood family of tropical deciduous trees, native to Southeast Asia, the fruit is known as the king of fruits, fruit queen. 50 years from Southeast Asia, the fruit was oval, full of workers with hard spines, each fruit weighs 1 to 1.5 kilograms, the large up to 2.5 kilograms, yellow or yellow-green. A tree generally annual output of 50 to 80 fruit, more than 300 to 400 results. April and May are the ripening season of durian every year. Durian fruit a amount of ripe on the ground, the pulp exposed to the air for a period of time, the odor stinks, but the taste is extremely sweet, high nutritional value. If the pulp is mixed with rice, it has a unique flavor. Flesh in the nucleus, as big as oranges, baked can eat, taste like chestnuts. Fruit flavor abnormal, eat people think the more you eat the more fragrant, can eat addictive; do not eat people think the taste of cat shit stink. Durian can not be picked, otherwise it can not continue to ripen, the fruit tree will also be damaged. The only way is to wait for it to ripen and fall on its own. In ancient times, a group of men and women traveled across the sea to the South China Sea, encountered wind and waves ship overturned, only a pair of men and women drifted a few days to a beautiful island; island residents picked a fruit to give them to eat, and soon regained their strength, the two no longer willing to go home, married here, and gave birth to children. Later, people named this fruit "Durian", which means to make people forget to come back.

13, four seasons of watermelon: Hainan watermelon peculiarities are all seasons can grow, even in winter can also blossom and bear fruit, every year from November to February, there are a large number of winter watermelon on the market, known as a great. Now Hainan's winter watermelon has become a bulk commodity, a steady stream of shipments to all parts of the motherland and exported abroad.

14, the mystery fruit: shamrock small shrub, tropical fruit trees, native to Africa. Fruit pulp contains a glycoprotein component called mystery fructin, can destroy the human sense of taste, produce sweetening effect. Eat a fruit, it will turn any sweet and sour taste in your mouth into a sweet taste. Native to Africa, introduced to Hainan in the 60s. Tree height of about one meter, the fruit is as big as peanut rice, red, the fruit flavor is only a light sweet taste. After eating, and then eat sour and bitter things, all feel sweet and delicious. Due to the magical effect of turning sour and bitter into sweet and refreshing, known as the "Mystery Fruit". This mysterious effect, it is because it contains a prion, commonly known as "tastemaker" substances, can cause people's taste nerve endings on the food flavor response changes. Eat bitter medicine people first taste it a mouthful, eat medicine will not have to worry about it.

15, rambutan: Sapindaceae tropical tall tree fruit trees, native to Malaysia. The trunk is thick and branched, the crown is open, the leaves are dark green, the fruit is spherical, long ovoid rows or ellipsoid, strings born on the fruit stalks, the appearance is yellow, the flesh is white, soft and crisp, sweet and sour like lychee, delicious aroma. February to April each year flowering, June to August for the fruit ripening picking season. 1960 introduced from Malaysia to Hainan, June-August each year the fruit is ripe. The fruit is spherical, ellipsoidal or long ovate, and have soft spines, bunches born on the fruit stalk, looks like a small hedgehog. The heaviest single fruit is about 50 grams. The flesh is white, crisp and soft, with a sweet and sour flavor, and an aroma superior to that of lychee.

16, plantain: plantain family, tropical, subtropical fruit. Stem can be used as medicine, diuretic, treatment of cerebral thrombosis; roots can treat colds, stomach pain. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a Mr. Feng, summer evening in front of the bookshop, I accidentally saw a woman in green from the window, very beautiful, asked him, called himself "banana's". Feng pulled the woman into the room, the woman did not come from, in a hurry, Feng only pulled down a piece of the woman's corner, hidden under the mat at night. The next day when I looked at the banana leaf, the original woman is banana change.

17, loquat: also known as Taiwan loquat, Rosaceae subtropical evergreen trees, native to Taiwan and Hainan. Fruit taste sweet, can cure fever.

18, lemon: Rutaceae tropical, subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees. The fruit is pleasantly fragrant, juicy and sour flesh, rich in vitamins, can also be used as medicine. Often with black tea with lemon tea or make lemon juice, fragrant and refreshing, heat and lungs, but also to extract aromatic oils.

19, olive: also known as white olive, tropical, subtropical evergreen trees. Sweet flesh, juice, can help digestion, disinfection, antidiarrheal, fat loss, thirst, to prevent laryngitis, often made of dried fruit. 20, sour beans: also known as sour plum beans, legume tropical evergreen trees. Suitable for sandy growth, yellow or orange flowers, racemes, pods long oval. Wood is hard and dense, Sanya farmers more than its wood made of oxcart axles, wheels and cutting boards; pods are both sweet and sour fruit, pickled pickled plum bean paste is also the Hainan flavor of the delicacies of the best condiments, young leaves can be equipped with seafood to eat, but also act as a clarifying agent for drinking water. Sanya city tree.

21, monkey bread: cottonwood tropical fruit tree. Unripe fruit sliced and roasted with fire, eaten as bread. Senegal national tree.

22, sugar coconut: native to Cambodia tropical dry forests, inflorescences and sap can be sugar, wine. 23, yolk fruit: also known as the lion's head fruit, native to northern South America, belongs to the family of sapotaceae semi-deciduous small trees tropical fruit trees. The fruit is spherical, green when the fruit is not ripe, mature fruit yellow-green to orange-yellow, smooth, thin skin, orange-yellow flesh, rich in starch, texture like egg yolk and aroma. In addition to raw food, the fruit can be made jam, ice cream, drinks or fruit wine.

24, egg fruit: passion fruit tropical fruit trees, native to Brazil. Fruit aromatic, edible fruit flesh, sweet and sour, add calcium bicarbonate and sugar, can be made into drinks.

25, passion fruit: also known as passion fruit, passion flower family tropical fruit trees, native to Australia and Brazil, the juice of 165 compounds, constituting a special flavor, containing more than a dozen kinds of fruit flavor, beauty, remove fatigue, anti-aging, anti-hypertensive effect. Paraguay national flower.

26, foreign bushels: also known as purple bushels, water bushels, water pomegranate, myrtle family tropical fruit, native to India and the Malay Peninsula. Nutritious, cough, asthma has a therapeutic effect. Fruit ripe in summer, the berries are oval, rectangular, purple or black, chewed mouth and saliva are colored purple. The fruit contains glucose, maltose, vitamins, organic acids, tannin and crimson resin. The flesh is sweet and edible, and tastes better when sprinkled with a little fine salt. Fresh fruits eaten raw have a therapeutic effect on chronic cough and asthma. Dried fruit powder, broth, also can cure cold asthma and allergic asthma.

27, cashews: also known as tree peanuts, tropical evergreen trees, native to northeastern Brazil, Hainan introduced cashews have 40 years of history. Cashew is a treasure, nutrient-rich nuts, cashew nuts and pears can be eaten as fruit, cashew nuts are rich in 21% of the protein and a variety of vitamins, is one of the world's four major dried fruit (the other sweet almonds, walnuts and hazelnuts kernel), bark, roots, resin can be used in medicine, the trunk is the production of boxes and shipbuilding of rare high-quality materials.

28, papaya: also known as "longevity fruit", papaya, papaya family tropical small trees or shrubs, native to tropical America. Fruit contains "papaya enzyme" on the human body has to promote digestion and anti-aging effect, both as a fruit, but also as a dish.

29, Senlizi: also known as the Buddha's head fruit, Senliziidae tropical fruit trees, native to tropical America. Fruit sweet, with a special flavor, roots, leaves can be used as medicine