Coconuts only grow in tropical areas, so it's not easy to eat them in the north. Eating coconuts is not a common thing, so many people don't know the correct way to open coconuts, do you?
How to open coconut
1. Put the coconut in the palm of the palm, and put a basin or bowl under it. When the coconut is opened, the big bowl is used to collect the coconut juice.
2. Find the gap between the two soft eyes. Follow this gap to find the center line of the coconut. Then turn the coconut with the palm of your hand and knock it open along the center line with a heavy blade (such as a chef's knife, meat cutter, chopper, etc.).
3. Continue to turn the coconut and knock until the coconut is split in two. If the method is correct, only need to turn a few times, coconut can be generally divided into two.
The benefits of eating coconut
Treatment of constipation
Coconut water is very fresh and refreshing to drink. Many people never thought it would have any effect, just as a drink. In fact, as long as the fruit, more or less will have some special effect.
For example, coconut can help us achieve the effect of gastrointestinal peristalsis, so people with constipation problems, might as well eat some coconut to help relieve constipation. But diarrhea friends are the opposite, to pay attention to eat less.
Prevention of multiple diseases
Coconut water promotes kidney and bladder function. In addition, eating coconut also helps prevent and treat flatulence, constipation, ulcers, and other gastrointestinal and gastrointestinal diseases. Coconut has been proved to be effective in preventing cancer and osteoporosis, dissolving kidney stones, and alleviating epilepsy and pancreatic disease-related symptoms.
Diuretic detumescence
Coconut juice is rich in potassium, magnesium and other minerals. Its composition is similar to intracellular fluid. It can correct dehydration and electrolyte disorder, and achieve diuretic and detumescence effect.
Improve oral ulcer
Coconut contains an ingredient called lauric acid, which can have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects. So when you have an ulcer in your mouth, eating coconut can help reduce inflammation and make the ulcer better faster.
Tonic effect
When the spleen and stomach are tired, the appetite is weak, the limbs are weak, and the body is weak, cut up the coconut meat, add an appropriate amount of chicken and glutinous rice, and eat after steaming. The effect is better, because chicken, glutinous rice and coconut meat are all nourishing, and the tonic effect is more significant when they are treated by stewing.
Relieving cough and resolving phlegm
Add wax gourd to coconut to relieve lung fire; add cool snow meat or clear yellow ear to neutralize the temperature and dryness of coconut; when suffering from cold cough, you may as well eat some coconut meat to relieve cough and phlegm.
Killing insects and removing malnutrition
Coconut meat and coconut juice have the function of killing intestinal parasites. Drinking or eating its juice can expel ginger leaf worm and tapeworm. It is not only effective in clinic, but also has no toxic side effects. It is an ideal food for killing insects and eliminating malnutrition, which can make blood unobstructed and skin ruddy.