Green fruit clears away heat, soothes the throat, produces body fluids, and has detoxification effects. It can be soaked in wine to dissolve vitamin C in the wine. You can see for yourself that it has no effect. Green fruit clears away heat, soothes the throat, produces body fluids, and detoxifies. Whether it is cough, sore throat, intestinal colic, heat stroke, vomiting and diarrhea, or abdominal distension, if the accumulated food persists, chewing Shangfeng grains of green olives can immediately relieve the disease and stimulate the appetite, and unblock the five internal organs. It can relieve polydipsia and fish and crab poisoning. It can also play a health care role for people who are not sick. 1. Understanding the green fruit The official scientific name of the green fruit is olive. This fruit matures in late autumn and is still green, so it is called green fruit. Green fruit is a hard-fleshed fruit that is bitter when you first eat it. After chewing it for a long time, you will find it fragrant and sweet, with endless aftertaste. The pulp tastes astringent at first and slightly sweet after chewing for a long time. It is bitter at first and then sweet, just like loyal words that are harsh to the ears and beneficial to action, so it was also called "loyalty fruit" and "admonishment fruit" in ancient times. Just as it is said in the book "Southern Grass and Trees": "Although the taste is bitter, chewing it is fragrant." When you first enter the mouth, you only feel sour and bitter. After chewing carefully, you will gradually feel the bitterness and sweetness, and your mouth will be filled with saliva and endless aftertaste. . It is said that after chewing olives carefully, if you can take a few sips of good tea, the sweet and fragrant olive flavor will flow from between the teeth to the bottom of the throat, making you smack your mouth endlessly, refresh your mind, and be unforgettable. Green fruit is also known as olive, white olive, yellow olive, and sweet olive. Qingguo was first recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Compendium of Materia Medica". Chen Zangqi said: "The tree is large and round, and the fruit is about an inch long. People in the south regard it as fruit, and the fruit tastes sour." "Hainan Materia Medica" contains: "According to the legend of foreign objects: the tree grows on the island in the South China Sea, and the tree is more than ten feet tall. In fact, Like jujube, it blooms in February and matures in August. It is very fragrant. The olive tree is tall and difficult to pick. If you rub the wood with salt, it will fall off naturally. "Kaibao Materia Medica" records: "The olive tree is like a tree." The tree is tall, with straight ends, and its shape is like that of a myrobalan tree without ribs. It grows in Lingnan and is harvested in August and September. "Olives are astringent in taste and sweet when eaten for a long time." Li Shizhen said. The name is unknown. Although the fruit is ripe, its color is green, so it is commonly called green fruit. The olive tree is an evergreen tree, with a height of more than 10m. The tree crown is round and tower-shaped, with an upright and thick trunk, 40-60cm in diameter; the bark is brown. It is often gray-white due to lichen epiphysis and has sticky aromatic resin. It is cultivated in low-altitude forest or hillside. Modern people often regard it as a beautiful plant. Olive branches are a symbol of peace and friendship. In the past, olives were a must-have dish when marrying a girl in Fuzhou. It is said that once upon a time, a woman met and fell in love with a young man while growing olives. However, their independent marriage was opposed by their families. Seeing everyone's objections, the girl took action. She brought out a plate of olives and green fruits and said: "Olives, olives, first astringent and then sweet, whoever dares to stop the girl from marrying!" Ganlan and olive are homophonic. Everyone saw that the girl was so determined to marry and expressed her intention with an olive expression, so they had no choice but to give up. It can be said that olives create a good marriage. Later, olives became an indispensable dish at banquets and weddings in Fuzhou. 2. Fruit treasures: Olive fruits have high nutritional value. When eaten fresh, they taste sour or sweet, sometimes astringent, have a sweet aftertaste, and have a special aroma, which is deeply loved by the people. In addition to being eaten fresh, olives can also be processed into various cold fruits, such as: Dafuguo (dry cold fruit), Heshun olives (dark brown, sweet and refreshing, with a slight flavor of the original fruit), peeled crisps (crisp flesh, Sweet and refreshing, unique, it is a good product among olive processed products), salty olives (as a meal ingredient or travel food), ten-flavored olives (a good travel product), etc. The recently emerging olive juice is also a unique refreshing health drink. Whether they are fresh fruits or processed products, olives are sweet and refreshing, and have unique flavors. They are favored by consumers and are a treasure among fruits. "The green fruits of southern China are harvested only after winter has passed." This is a poem by Mei Yaochen, a poet from the Song Dynasty. The green fruit mentioned in the poem is the olive, also called green seed and remonstrance fruit. Most fruits are on the market in summer and autumn, but olives mature after the beginning of winter and are available for people to taste at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. There is something special about the way to eat olives: if eaten with chestnuts, the aroma will increase, but if eaten with salt, there will be no bitter taste. The olives are processed into spiced olives, licorice olives, spicy olives, salty olives and Wufu fruit, etc., which are good snacks after dinner. In southern my country, there is a custom of serving Yuanbao tea (i.e. olive tea) to guests. According to legend, Yuanbao tea began in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. On the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, tea shops in Hangzhou offer frequent tea customers a free treat - take a Fujian sandalwood olive stored densely in a porcelain jar, chop it into two pieces and put it into a tea cup, and add boiling water from Longjing fine leaves. After brewing, its color is green, its taste is sweet and slightly pungent, and its aroma is fragrant, refreshing the heart and spleen. The store named it "Yuanbao" to pray for good luck in the New Year. Fresh table olives mainly include Shanxiang and Changxingguo. Shanxiang fruit is mainly produced in Fujian. The fruit is slightly small, weighing only 0.5 kilograms in 90 pieces. The fruit is smooth and emerald green or dark green in color. The flesh is slightly thicker, crisp, less fiber, rich in fragrance, sweet aftertaste, and slightly astringent. , commonly known as "Sandalwood Olive", is the best variety for fresh consumption. The long-row fruit is commonly known as "grass fruit", with about 70 pieces per 0.5 kg. The peel is slightly thick, wrinkled, green with yellow; the flesh layer is thin, light yellow-green, more fiber, slightly fragrant and astringent. When purchasing fresh olives, the fruit itself must be fresh, moist, with tender skin and flesh, a sweet aftertaste, and rich aroma. For example, sandalwood olives with smaller fruit kernels are of the best quality, especially those with 120-130 kernels per 0.5 kg and full kernels. When choosing grass fruit varieties, it is better to choose the one with the largest fruit size.
Preserved fruits processed and pickled with olives have long been famous. As early as 1,700 years ago, there are records of "green fruits pickled with honey" in ancient books. Historically, preserved fruits with olives as the main raw material have been produced for a long time; with olives