Among the exotic and unusual European people, plants can be distinguished by a meaty yellowish fruit of Pamela. Where did this original alien come from, and most importantly, how and with what it is eaten?
Pamela - description, how and where is the fruit grow?
How does Pamela grow? Where is the birthplace of this unusual fetus? This fruit in Asia countries is widespread, but especially read Pamela in China. Locals consider the fruit with a symbol of happiness, prosperity and good luck. He is presented as a present for the Chinese New Year, applied in different rituals.
Pomelo is the fruits of evergreen tree with the name of the same name. The peel is pretty dense, the slices are fleshy, with rigid bitter white or yellowish partitions. Mature pamela shades can be light green, yellow or piszzled. Only one side of the fetus takes a rich pink color - the one that is rotated to the direct sunlight.
It is interesting! Pamela is considered to be a record holder among citrus - it can reach in diameter 30 cm, and in weight - 10 kg.
The inhabitants of some countries are called Pamelos Seddom - by the name of the Morzavitel, for the first time imported this fruit to India in the 17th century. There is another name that, however, is used much less often, -pompelmus.
The fruits of this plant ripen approximately six months, but a slightly unworthy samples are also pleasant to taste. The tree is not adapted to life in the climate of European countries - in such conditions, it usually dies within 2 weeks.
Chemical composition and calorie
Pamela caloric content is relatively small - only 28-35 calories per 100 g of product. At the same time, this is a delicious and nutritious delicacy - one slicity is completely under the power to quench the feeling of hunger for a while. For this reason, the fruit is actively used when drawing up weight loss programs.
This citrus contains a lot of useful substances:
- cellulose;
- fats;
- proteins;
- water;
- ash;
- vitamins A, C, E, K, B;
- sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and so on.;
- folic acid.
By the way. By the content of vitamin C Pamela, even grapefruit left far behind. Daily use of 200 g of this fruit will ensure the satisfaction of the body's day need in ascorbic acid.
How to choose high-quality and delicious fruit?
When choosing a masterful one is guided by some recommendations:
- Permissible shades of fruit peel: green, yellow, pinkish or olive.
- Damage should not be observed on the skin - brown spots and circles talk about fruit disease.
- Ripe fetus is usually fleshy and weighty
- Ripe Pamela spreads around itself a unique fragrance.
- If the fruit has impressive dimensions, but it may be lightweight, it may indicate its dryness.
- Green spots on the peel are only in immature samples.
- At pressure on the peel, the fruit should not succumb to the deformation.
- The most delicious, sweet and meaty pulp in the fruits of the pear-shaped form.
- A soft tip indicates that the fruit most likely has fallen.
- Too brilliant, the loving peel hints that Pamela is processed by chemical wax.
A bright exotic citrus can be found on the shelves of our supermarkets. What is known about the beneficial properties and the dangers of fruit in the organism? How to choose it correctly and use?
Pomel Fruit - Chemical Composition and Calorie
Seddock, died - these names have the largest citrus representative with a pink tint of thick peel. Motherland Pomelo - China, mentioning the beneficial properties of the fruit belongs to 100 BC. e.
Large fruits weigh up to 10 kg, having in diameter about 30 cm. More often there are round fruit, but there are also pear-shaped, fightered on both sides. Many people who have tried pomelia talk about the similarity of taste with grapefruit. Only he is not as bitter, besides, the slices are slightly dry.
Fruit has a pleasant aroma and a rich composition of useful components:
- vitamins (ascorbic acid, a, e, group B);
- organic acids;
- minerals (potassium, calcium, sodium, iron, phosphorus);
- fiber (up to 1%);
- essential oils.
Pomelo consists of water (85-90%), nutritional value is of carbohydrates (7-9%), proteins (0.5-0.8%), fats (0.1-0.4%), ash (0, 4-0.7%). Fruit has very low calorie (28-40 kcal), the fetus, the more calories.
Useful properties for the human body
Features Pomelo:
- Posseably affects the cardiovascular system. Potassium strengthens the heart and vessels, normalizes blood pressure, heart rhythm.
- Strengthens immunity, improves the resistance to viral and colds. Ascorbic acid accelerates the recovery process, improves human well-being. The use of fruit for prevention reduces the risk of seasonal diseases.
- Increases hemoglobin, eliminates anemia.
- Reduces the level of harmful cholesterol. Vitamin E helps to purify the vessels from plaques, which reduces the chances of the appearance of atherosclerosis and its complications - infarction and stroke.
- Improves metabolic processes in the body. Lipase contributes to the splitting of proteins. The fiber stimulates the output of slags.
- It is fighting oncological neoplasms, this is a great preventive agent against tumors. Limonoids do not produce cancer cells.
- Strengthens bone tissue. Calcium contributes to rapid rehabilitation after fractures.
- Improves mood, increases tone. Essential oils increase performance, concentration of attention.
- Promotes weight loss. Low caloric content and ability to quickly saturate the body allows you to use a gauge in dietary nutrition.
- Makes a dental enamel. Ascorbic acid and calcium reduce the bleeding of adhesion.
- Contributes to the withdrawal of sputum in diseases of the respiratory tract (cough, asthma).
- Improves skin condition, makes it elastic.
After the hearty and tasty meal, I always climb insignificant, at first glance, questions. Interestingly, how grows in a prayer, which lies on a plate. What country did it fall into the kitchen, who and when at all came up with this fruit for the first time and at what point the globe did it happen? There are many questions and they are not so significant, but knowledge of such moments is significantly expanding the horizons.
Benefits of warm countries
Regions with a warm climate won a peculiar "lottery":
- People living on these lands do not get ready to survive in the cold season. Just because this time is not.
- Less than the time is paid to the construction of housing and making clothes, as they lose part of the initial functions.
- Edible fruits grow straight on the trees, you can survive with banal assembly.
- When it comes to large communities and cultural plants, another advantage is found. In the year you can collect three, four and even five yields.
But it is so historically developed that in the equatorial regions and other territories with a warm climate stopped. This is especially brightly visible in terms of technical progress, it is enough to look at the half-day African tribes. If a person is not forced to fight nature and constantly overcome obstacles, gradually it is too relaxing and ceases to develop.
Where is growing in a pellel?
But warm countries today please us with their agrarian complex. Pomelo, for example, grow in a number of countries:
- China.
- Thailand.
- Malaysia.
- Japan.
- Laos.
- Cambodia.
Everywhere, where there is enough humidity and heat This fruit can grow, who loved many and in our country. In Russia, unfortunately, the conditions are not suitable for this tree, but no one will prohibit a break. Perhaps you have something.
Initially, it is assumed that the fruits grew solely on a pair of islands, not far from America. Subsequently, they were brought by sailors and travelers to Southeast Asia, where the love of the local population was accustomed and gained. True, this theory does not take into account the fact that in China about the gloomily knew two thousand years ago.
The fruit is growing in the form of a tree, not such a punishment. Separate trees can reach a height of ten meters, and this is comparable to 4-5 storey houses.
Fruit is exported, its sale brings good income to the southern countries due to the fact that in the northern latitudes to grow and fruit the tree simply will not be. Such a natural monopoly, complaining here not to anyone and nothing.
How can I eat in a pomel?
Pomelo fruits can be huge sizes. In the markets in Thailand and Malaysia, it is easy to find 5 and even 10 kilogram fruits. "Athletes" more often fall to us, but it does not affect their taste. Can be used in several options:
You can find dozens of different recipes with a pomelo, someone prefers to experiment independently and find the most delicious cooking options. This is the moment when it is practically impossible to spoil the cooked. So the question is only how far will fantasy go and what will come of it?
For the first time it is better to simply correctly cut and eat this juicy fruit in the original formThat is how millions of people eat it.
Pomelo: harmful or useful for health?
Citrus fruit calmly matures on the tree half a year and only after that gives all the energy of the sun's rays. But is it so useful to eat the fruits of an exotic plant? In fact, harm may only be associated with the development of an allergic reaction and the use of poor-quality, rotten fruits.
Nobody is insured against allergies, this is the individual reaction of the body. Do not get into the situation with rotten fruit is also quite simple. Spoiled fruit is very different from their normal "counterparts." It is not only about the appearance, but also about the smell.
And now a couple of words about the benefits of this fruit for a person:
- Contains many carbohydrates, with a minimum of proteins and fats.
- In the fruit there are almost all the necessary spectrum of vitamins.
- The land presented the pomelo micro and macroelements in which the human body needs for normal existence.
- Practically does not contain calories. 300-400 kcal per kilogram of pulp, quite a bit. Due to the volume, you can fill the stomach and experience a sense of saturation, to consume the minimum number of calories.
- Powerful antioxidants will help the organism to recover.
So there is a fruit useful than to give up its use. Truth, in everything you need to know the measureEspecially when it comes to breastfeeding and breastfeeding. All eaten will affect the baby.
Where and how grows in a prayer?
Mysterious fruit is growing only in warm countries:
- In the form of a fruit tree.
- The plant occasionally reaches 13-15 meters in height.
- One tree can live until hundreds of years, such "long-livers" are officially fixed.
- Fruits ripen approximately six months, but on the homeland of the fruit, local residents will not refuse and from the submerged pomel.
- New types of trees are cultivated, in order to obtain new tastes and increase fertility.
To enjoy the view of a hanging 5-kilogram fruit from a branch will have to do a long way. Only for one melted to go thousands of kilometers - not the best idea. But if fate brought to Southeast Asia, Japan or California, it is necessary to join the agrarian culture of these regions.
Fruit can be raised at home if regularly maintain temperature regime and monitor moisture. But in our climate such efforts will not cost the final result..
In natural conditions, in our climate, the plant will die during a couple of weeks. And even this can not stop the collapse from the temptation to grow the tree and get a couple of delicious fruits.
Having learned how grieved grows, there may be a temptation to quit everything and climb a farmer in some distant warm country. Such an idea is good only at first glance, if you do not think about the details.
Video: We collect a crop of a pomelo from a tree
In this video, the breeder of Antoine from India will show how he collects a prayer in his yard and cleans it before use:
Large spherical fruits of an exotic plant in volatile today can be found in almost any Russian supermarket. A conservative domestic consumer has ceased to look at this mysterious fruit and increasingly complements them its rather monotonous northern diet. Moreover, giant "Mandarin" There were their devotees among Russians who no longer think their menu without this overseas fetus.
Where did the Russian alien come from, known to many as a fruit of Pamela, what it is useful, what harm can be caused by non-accepted organisms of compatriots?
A bit of history
Fruit Pomelo has several names: Pompelmus, a sededo or more familiar to the Russian ear, but wrong - Pamela. The plant refers to the genus of citrus. China, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Tongo Island and Fiji are considered the birthplace of exotic fetus. Fruit fell into Europe in the XIV century due to the efforts of navigators actively engaged in intercontinental trade. Today grimel is growing in most regions with a warm climate.
At the historic homeland, the presence of a germina reaches 10 kilograms, although in our supermarkets, alas, not to meet such warriors. Unlike other overseas fruits, the pomelo moves well to transport, which allows to deliver solar fruits into the most remote and cold corners of the planet.
Externally pomelo resembles a large grapefruit - with the same thick peel and juicy slices inside. But in taste qualities, it still differs from his relative, softer "sound." However, the taste of the fetus depends on its variety. Sharo-shaped dark-green fruits have a pink, very sweet pulp, and yellowish flattening fruits are acidic with a small mustard. And those and others have their loyal fans, and for the benefits they do not infer for each other.
Useful properties of the overseas guest
Like I. all citrus fruits, pompelmus - Record holder for the content of vitamin C. But not only by this it is distinguished among other exotic fruits. A lot of useful nutrients, which make it truly the king of citrus, in the composition of the rose. So what is contained in a unique fruit?
- Fiber - dietary fiber, improving the operation of the digestive tract.
- Vegetable protein is a building component for organism cells.
- Potassium is an essential element for the normal functioning of cardiovascular, bone muscular, nervous and excretory systems of the body.
- Calcium is the main construction "brick" for the bone tissue of a person.
- Iron - a microelement involved in blood formation, energy exchange and metabolism.
- Sodium is a component responsible for the body's water and electrolyte balance.
- Vitamin C - Vitamin youth, beauty and health, wrestler with colds.
- Beta carotene is a powerful antioxidant.
- Vitamins of group B are essential vitamins for nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems of the body.
Juicy fruit is capable of quenching thirst and saturate at the same time. A large amount of fiber contained in the fruit contributes to the normalization of digestion and eliminating constipation. A rich vitamin and mineral complex makes a pomelitis of a vegetable medicine capable of improving the body's protective forces, to resist viral diseases, strengthen the walls of the vessels and the heart muscle. In addition, Pompelmus is a good preventive tool from caries, strengthens the dental enamel and prevents the development of periodontitis.
Pompelmus is considered an effective prophylactic means of diabetes, hypertension, a number of oncological diseases. Due to its low calorie (only 35 kcal. Per 100 gr.) Fruits can be used as a dietary product for all wishing to reset overweight. It is recommended to apply in the monodulations, as well as supplement their daily diet, replacing fatty and sweet desserts with a juicy fruit. Pomelo used in cosmetology: on the basis of its moisturizing and nutrient masks, cleaning lotions, body scrubs.
Contraindications: Who can not eat
Despite the obvious benefit of the overseas fetus, some categories of people need to be limited, and it is better to refuse him at all. Who can not eat pompelmus?
Among other things, the pomelo has a light laxative action, so its use should be limited to those who are inclined to diarrhea. Well, of course, even an absolutely healthy person should not have her kilograms so as not to provoke disorder of digestion.
How to choose a fruit on the counter
Unsublined pomelo can be very sour or patted. Therefore, the first criterion when choosing an exotic fruit is his ripeness. It is possible to determine it by smell: the more rich and the fragrant smells of the fruit peel, the more juicy and tasty it will be his flesh. Different varieties of pomelo differ in taste:
- high-shaped yellow fruit It has a pleasant sweet taste;
- yellow a little flat fruit is distinguished by a sweet taste with small acids;
- greenish pear-shaped fruit fruit has a pronounced sour-sweet taste;
- dark green spherical citrus - the sweetest representative among other varieties.
There are no traces of mechanical damage: cracks, dents, cuts, punctures. Peel - dense, smooth, brilliant. When pressed, it should not be traces. The way the fetus is, the greater the juice. Crude Pompelmus can be stored outside the refrigerator more than 30 days. But how only the peel will be removed from itThe shelf life of the product will begin to be calculated in hours. In the refrigerator, the separated fruit can be stored not more than 3 days.
How to eat and get maximum benefit
In his homeland, the fruit is eaten as a main dish, seasoning with sharp spices, or make from it the candied fruit, marmalade, jams. All restaurants in the world use juicy ripe fruit As an additive to salads, pastries, desserts and sweet-sweet sauces. Even the peel goes into the move: it is dried and added to tea as a useful ingredient rich in essential oils.
But, undoubtedly, it is most useful to eat a prayer in pure form, without exposing it to heat treatment in order to maintain the maximum of the beneficial substances and vitamins. It is enough to clean it like an ordinary grapefruit, divide on lobes and enjoy the magnificent taste of an amazing citrus.
Pomelo is an affordable, useful and incredibly delicious fruit, which deserves more attention than the Russian consumer pays for him. This sunny miracle will not only strengthen health and adds strength, but also will raise the mood to the most gray and cloudy autumn day.
Do you know how to eat a pomel? If not, you will find this information in the materials of this article. Also, you will learn about what is this product, how it needs to be cleaned by what properties it has and for which it is used.
general information
Before you tell you about how the mesh eat, you should tell you that it is.
Pomelo is a fruit that refers to citrus. It has many different names. Someone calls this fetus, someone - Pamela, and someone uses such names like Pompelmus and Maxim Citrus. By the way, there is another name of this fruit - sider. He received such a name by the name of the English navigator, who in the seventeenth century transported the seeds of the citrus under consideration with His Motherland - from Southeast Asia to Western India.
Appearance Pomelo
What kind of fruit and what does he look like? Pomelo is a big citrus. His mass reaches ten kilograms, and diameter is about thirty centimeters. Although on the shelves of our stores such fruits does not happen. In supermarkets you can buy a fruit that weighs no more than one and two kilograms.
What does the prayer look like? What kind of fruit, from which even those who are contraindicated by citrus? Most often, the fruit has a rounded shape. Less often he is pear-like or flashed. The color of the peel is varying from yellow to green. All the fruit is evenly covered with a thick layer of peel. Under it hides a sweet and fragrant flesh, which is divided into large slices (like orange or mandarin).
How do they eat in the pomel?
Few people know, but the fruits under consideration are used not only in the raw form. For example, in some eastern countries, this fruit is frying, extinguished and even boiled. In some dishes and salads, it is an integral component. Thanks to the lobby, the dining meal is becoming brighter, rich and useful.
Attitude towards the fetus in other states
On the eve of the New Year, such fruits always give each other. This is due to the fact that this fruit is a symbol of well-being and prosperity. It is impossible not to say that the Chinese living in Thailand are often used in a pomelo for various religious festivals. It is quite often brought as a gift in spirit.
Among other things, in the north of Vietnam, this fruit is exposed every year to the festive altar (on New Year's Eve).
Beneficial features
Little to know how to eat in a pomel. In order for this fruit to benefit your body, you need to own information and what properties it has.
Few guess that the pomelo is an extremely useful fruit. The richest mineral and vitamin composition allows the use of fruits for the prevention and treatment of many viral infections, as well as diseases of the nervous, cardiovascular and digestive systems.
It is impossible not to say that there are not only in a volatile, but also use for the preparation of various cosmetics. For example, masks based on this fruit are perfectly vitamined, nourished and moisturize tired skin. They literally fill its strength and energy. In addition, nutritionists recommend to use pomelia to patients who suffer from excess body weight.
Composition of the product
Now you know what kind of useful properties is possessed. Vitamins in this fruit are contained in large quantities. It is in 1, in 6, 2, RR, C, as well as β-carotene. In addition, the pellel includes a whole list of useful elements: potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, sodium, iron, zinc, manganese and copper. Also, this fruit contains essential oils, a large number of lemonoids, water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, dietary fiber and ash.
Pomelo: hybrid or not?
Pomelo is a hybrid of what? Many people who first tried this fruit believe that it was grown by crossing any citrus. But it is not. After all, the pomelo is an independent plant, which was mentioned in the Bible. According to historians, this fruit originally appeared in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and also grown on Fiji and Tonga Islands. In China, he was known for another 100 before our era. As for Europe, it was delivered by the navigators in the fourteenth century.
Thus, an erroneous statement that the pomelo is a hybrid. What don't people come up with! Know that this fruit is the fruit of an independent tree.
Right choice
How to choose a pomelo? The peel of this fruit will easily tell you, it is worth buying it or not. Of course, acquiring a prayer for the first time, you can trust the seller. However, we recommend independently pay attention to signs of ripe fruit.
First, high-quality and fully overwhelmed fruits have a very bright fragrance. It must be saturated and felt at a distance.
Secondly, the color of the peel of this fruit should be homogeneous, yellow or slightly greenish. Moreover, spots, dents, linations or bands should not be present on the surface. If there are no such damage to the pomelo, it is better to refuse it, since this is the first sign of non-reliever of the product.
To the touch, high-quality fruit should be quite dense and solid. Minor softness is not a problem. On the contrary, such a fruit will be more juicy and tasty.
In the event that at the top of the pellel, the peel is surprisingly easily pushing deep into, we can say that the fruit begins to rot.
It should also be noted that the skin of a good fruit always has the same thickness. Some of her seals suggest that the pellel caused in unsuitable conditions, as well as incorrectly stored.
Calorie Product
What kind of fetus we consider have calorie content? Pomelo contains quite a lot of carbohydrates. But despite this, it is a dietary product. After all, 90% of its edible part consists of water.
Thus, the caloric content of the pomel (100 g) is about 30 kcal. However, it should be noted that this figure may vary slightly in one direction or another. It depends on the degree of maturity of the fetus and its varieties.
Due to the fact that this product has a rather low energy value, as well as a multitude of useful properties, it is recommended that persons who have a tendency to completeness, as well as sitting on the strictest diet.
This fruit should be used before each meal in the amount of two or three poles, as well as instead of the usual fast food during snacks.
Cleaning process
How should be used in a pomelo? How to clean this fruit? These issues are particularly asked for those who first encountered this citrus. It should be noted that the methods of its cleaning there are a great set. Consider some of them.
Fashion first
After purchasing a pellel thoroughly wash in hot water (sometimes with the use of brush). If you notice that the fruit was treated with wax, then it is hung with boiling water. This will allow you to get rid of the harmful layer and secure your body from various infections.
After the actions of the actions described, the skin residuously cut the sharp knife from the cutter in a circle. At the same time, the pulp does not concern. Then the fingers are neatly pressed in the place of the cut and carefully remove the peel.
Inside the fruit detect slices, like a mandarin or orange. They are neatly separated, and then open the dense partitions and remove the meal. In parallel, bones are removed from the pellel, which, by the way, can be quite a lot.
Puffed flesh is folded in the pile and served to the table. It is used simply as they are added to fruit or berry salads and other dishes.
Method of the second
Now you know how to eat. How to clean this fruit in another way? For this, the purchased product is cooled in hot water. Then, with the help of a sharp and not very long knife, the top is removed from it. After that, the skin is pomelized with a depth of the meal of the fruit along the spiral from top to bottom. Finding it with a finger, the product is quickly cleaned. In completion, it is neatly divided into slices, from which they remove tough and bitter films. Use such a product just like this or in combination with other fruits. A poor tone is considered to eat in a prayer along with sugar sand. After all, citrus is very sweet.
Let's summarize
Now you know that it is a pomelo and how to clean it. Using these techniques, you are without much difficulty dry the fruit of the peel and quickly get to the sweet, juicy and surprisingly delicious pulp. Enjoy your meal!