There are more than 500 varieties of persimmons, and the weight of a single fruit can vary from 100 to 500 grams. How correctly to eat persimmon? The knife needs to remove the top of a very ripe fruit, and the spoon has its flesh.
Ripe persimmon can be stored in the refrigerator in frozen form up to 6 months. Unhealthy fruits, on the contrary, need a warm temperature to ripen. One way to speed up the ripening is not a very ripe persimmon - put it in a bag with red apples.
In the carbohydrate composition of persimmon 40% is taken by glucose and 52% by fructose, while 100 grams of fruit contains only 62 calories. This makes persimmon a suitable product for those who want to lose weight.
Persimmon for weight loss
Diet on a persimmon can last 4-6 days - provided that you are at home during this period of time, and your body does not experience any special loads. Your main food will be 1.5-2 kilograms of persimmons a day, as well as water and herbal teas and teas. It is absolutely impermissible that during the diet you experience dizziness or feel a pre-stupor condition - only the usual feeling of hunger will be considered natural.
Please note that a diet on a persimmon is absolutely not suitable for those who suffer from constipation. In addition, do not choose a persimmon as a product for weight loss, if you have never tried it before.
You can replace a weekly diet on a persimmon with one fasting day a week - it will also bring you extreme benefits, as a persimmon helps not only to lose weight, but also to improve your body perfectly.
Useful properties of persimmons
Persimmon, due to the presence in it of a huge amount of nutrients, has a wide range of useful properties. In particular:
- Persimmon prevents cancer, improves eyesight and skin - thanks to the vitamin A contained in it;
- reduces the vulnerability and permeability of blood vessels and increases immunity - thanks to vitamins C and P;
- helps with disorders of the gastrointestinal tract - thanks to pectins;
- helps with diseases of the thyroid gland - thanks to iodine;
- the persimmon flesh itself has a bactericidal effect.
Persimmon is useful for the prevention and treatment of the following problems:
- cardiovascular diseases;
- anemia;
- phlebeurysm;
- bleeding gums.
In addition, persimmon:
- improves appetite;
- quickly dulls the feeling of hunger;
- has a diuretic effect;
- calms the nervous system;
- normalizes the reproductive system.
Are there contraindications for persimmons?
Yes. Due to the astringent properties of persimmon it can not be eaten by people who have undergone surgery on the stomach or intestines, as well as those who have any digestive system disorders. These same properties make persimmon an undesirable food for children under 3 years of age.
In addition, the harm from persimmons can get those who suffer from diabetes or obesity - because this fruit is characterized by a high content of rapidly digestible sugars.