What is the medicinal value of red dates?

Red dates are a very common food, and they have the effect of nourishing blood. Generally, people choose to eat red dates directly or make soup. In addition, red dates can be prepared in other ways, such as dried red dates, red date slices, and red date cakes. Many women like to eat red dates very much. But what many friends don’t know is that red dates also have strong medicinal value. So what are the specific medicinal values ​​of red dates? Let me give you a brief introduction to this issue.

Red dates, also known as jujubes. Since ancient times, it has been listed as one of the “five fruits” (peach, plum, apricot, jujube, and date), and has a long history. The most prominent feature of dates is their high vitamin content. A clinical study conducted abroad showed that patients who ate dates continuously recovered their health three times faster than those who simply took vitamin pills. Therefore, dates have the reputation of "natural vitamin pills". Jujube is a temperate crop with strong adaptability. Jujube is known as "hard-core crops" and is drought-resistant and waterlogged-resistant, making it the preferred variety for developing water-saving forestry and fruit industry.

1. Dates can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells: Pharmacological studies have found that red dates can promote the production of white blood cells, lower serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin, and protect the liver. Red dates also contain substances that inhibit cancer cells and can even transform cancer cells into normal cells.

2. People who often eat fresh dates rarely suffer from gallstones. This is because the rich vitamin C in fresh dates converts excess cholesterol in the body into bile acid. With less cholesterol, the probability of stone formation is also reduced;

3. Jujube is rich in calcium and iron, which play an important role in preventing and treating osteoporosis and anemia. Middle-aged and elderly people often suffer from osteoporosis during menopause, and adolescents and women who are at the peak of growth and development are prone to anemia. Jujube has an ideal therapeutic effect on them, and its effect is usually incomparable to drugs;

4. It also has a good tonic effect on people who are weak after illness;

5. The rutin contained in dates is a substance that softens blood vessels and thus lowers blood pressure, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension;

6. Dates can also resist allergies, remove fishy and strange smells, calm the mind, improve intelligence and brain health, and enhance appetite.

Through the above introduction, everyone should understand the medicinal value of red dates. Red dates are a very common food and you can eat more of them in your daily life. In normal times, female friends can also make more red dates soup, which can replenish qi and blood and make your face rosy and shiny.