Description
Lyfegreen
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : Air Transport Once A Week. Drive Every Saturday.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Lyfegreen / Taiwan
🌱 Producer Introduction：
Background
Lyfetribe builds a health and wellness platform, Lyfegreen was founded as a joint collaboration between Lyfetribe and Fushan Grange, taiwan’s leading social enterprise for organic agriculture and sustainable producers.
Today, Lyfegreen supports and works with a network of more than 100 carefully curated organic farms and sustainable producers across taiwan, showcasing an array of over 200 varieties of fruits and veggies throughout the year.
Our mission: fresh, high-quality and diversified are the core of our work. In addition, we don't want to only sell fruits and vegetables. We want to help you discover a new healthy food concept and contribute to a more sustainable world.
There are also airline shipping every week to hong kong and ship directly after arriving at hong kong, so the fruits and vegetables are 100%fresh.
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information (Main) (English)：
Binomial Name：
Chinese Name：碌柚 | 柚子
Other Names：Pomelo
Product Description：Similar in taste to a sweet grapefruit, the pomelo is commonly consumed and used for festive occasions throughout Southeast Asia. As with the grapefruit, phytochemicals in the pomelo have the potential for drug interactions.
Pomelo may cause adverse effects, similar to those caused by grapefruit and some other citrus fruits, through the inhibition of cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of prescription drugs such as anti-hypertensives and anticoagulants.
Variety：Mustard Varieties:
Heart-wrapped mustard: also known as big mustard, the petiole is particularly thick, and it tastes less fiber and less spicy. It is a variety commonly used in restaurants, and it is also a perennial vegetable on the Chinese New Year table.
Big-leaf mustard: thick stems, wide leaves, low pungent taste, can be cooked directly or pickled into prunes, Fucai, sauerkraut, etc.
Small mustard greens: Strong pungent taste, bitter leaves, usually salted and made into "potherb mustard" as the main way of eating.
Big cabbage: do not eat the leaves and petioles, only the stems of "mustard for stems" are taken. The stems are particularly fat and stick-shaped, also known as "cai xin";
Supply Season：The main production period is from November to April of the following year, and Hong Kong is available throughout the year.
Storage Method：
#Should Be / Avoided：
Pregnant women with kidney disease and high blood pressure should not eat grapefruit. If pregnant women do not eat grapefruit while taking medicine, it is particularly dangerous that eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice at this time will lead to arrhythmia while taking anti-allergic drugs. Grapefruits that are too bitter are not suitable for eating, because grapefruits are generally immature or broken grapefruits.
Pregnant women can eat a small amount of grapefruit
Properties (TCM): cold
Five Flavors in TCM: Sweet, Sour
Efficacy Strengthen the stomach and dissolve food, reduce qi and eliminate phlegm
Grapefruit contains vitamin C, P, B2, folic acid, calcium, iron, phosphorus, chromium, potassium and other rich vitamins and minerals, which can prevent the occurrence of anemia and promote the normal development of the fetus. At the same time, grapefruit can also enhance physical fitness and help the body absorb calcium and iron more easily. Eating more grapefruit can also help prevent the occurrence of intestinal cancer and gastric cancer. The vitamin content of grapefruit is higher than that of ordinary citrus fruits, and there is a kind of insulin in grapefruit, which can lower blood sugar, which is quite suitable for people with diabetes or gestational diabetes.
Grapefruit has the effects of relieving cough, relieving phlegm, and resisting germs. Cooking pomelo peel with tangerine peel or ginger juice and honey can treat colds and coughs in pregnant women. Grapefruit can also reduce internal heat and inhibit oral ulcers. However, Pregnant women can only eat a quarter of grapefruit a day, because eating too much can cause constipation.
*Edible Compatibility：
Cooking Skills：Boil pomelo peel with tangerine peel or ginger juice and honey to treat cold and cough in pregnant women.
Notes：Pregnant women with kidney disease and high blood pressure should not eat grapefruit.
What is particularly dangerous is that while taking anti-allergic drugs, eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice at this time will cause arrhythmia.
Dish：
Suggested Eating Method：
Cook with pomelo skin and cowardly or ginger juice, honey, can treat pregnant women with a cold and cough.
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🔅Precautions (English Version)：
🍎 Preserve fruits
1. Fruits especially with softer skin, if packaged, should be placed in the cold box in the original package;
2. Organic fruits are more prone to spoilage if they have water droplets. Put the fruits in a ventilated place to dry or wipe off the water vapor, then wrap the fruits in slightly damp newspaper and put them in a plastic bag before refrigerating. ;
3. Organic fruits do not use preservatives or special treatments. fruits are generally stored for three to five days in room temperature only, should be kept in fridge. Some fruits e.g. papaya will decompose enzymes, so they should be eaten as soon as possible.
🍏 How to wash fruits
1. Wash fruits before eating to keep them fresh;
2. It is not advisable to soak the fruits for too long, and they should be washed first and then cut to avoid the loss of vitamins;
3. Washing fruits with dilute salt water or Dish Drop can easily remove vegetable insects;
4. Cut fruits with a stainless steel knife to reduce vitamin loss;
5. Vegetable leaves contain a lot of nutrients, so you should avoid shredding, chopping or grinding the leaves;
6. Immediately eat after cutting, to avoid the loss of vitamins due to air oxidation.
