For believers in the fasting period and for vegetarians, products are needed that can replace meat to some extent. A good help in this regard can be dried fruits. Many of them have long since become regular guests on our table. But dried fruit kumquat , relatively recently appeared on sale, is not as popular as, for example, dried apricots or apples.
The Benefits of Dried Kumquat
It is known that gentle drying preserves in fruits a large number of useful vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body. The same can be said about dried kumquat, the useful properties of which are very remarkable. In the east, it is not for nothing that they call it the food of the wise, because it has many exceptionally useful substances in its composition.
First and foremost, it is, of course, vitamins, especially vitamin C, which is traditionally abundant in citrus fruits. To saturate your body with this vitamin and increase resistance to various diseases, it is worth eating a couple of dried fruits in the morning, after breakfast. You can add a cup of tea or coffee with a kind of useful dessert.
Useful properties of candied cucumber
It should be noted that to preserve useful properties in kumquat, it must be prepared together with the skin. So it should be eaten: the rind is even richer with useful substances than the flesh of this fruit.
Useful properties of dried cumquat
First of all, it must be said that the useful properties of dried cumquat are not yet fully understood, but, nevertheless, its use is very useful for people with a sick stomach. Dryfruit normalizes the secretion of gastric juice and improves metabolism. It is also known for its powerful antifungal and pronounced antimicrobial effect, and the effect comes very quickly.
Kumquat helps in the prevention of colds, so during the off-season it makes sense to include it in the diet for each person.
The benefits and harms of dried kumquat
However, if we talk about dried kumquat, we should admit that from its use can be not only good, but also harm, although in this case there are so few contraindications that the product can be considered almost ideal. Under the ban it is only for those who are allergic to citrus fruits. Anyone who wants to eat kumquat for food every day is only after consulting a nutritionist, because kumquat can cause intolerance in some cases.