How to eat fresh hawthorn? What will happen if you eat too much hawthorn?

1. How to eat fresh hawthorn

Way 1: Make hawthorn jam. Wash the fresh hawthorn and remove the stems, then pour it into a pot, add water and appropriate amount of white sugar and boil. Stir while boiling until the hawthorn becomes soft and mushy, then take out the core. Then add rock sugar and continue stirring. When you see the soup in the pot becomes very thick, you can remove it from the pot and pour it into a bowl for storage.

Way to eat it: stir-fry the red fruits. Also wash the hawthorn, then use chopsticks to pierce the hawthorn stem and push out the core. Put the pitted hawthorn into a casserole, add water and sugar in a ratio of 2:1, bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat. Wait for about twenty minutes before serving.

Way three: canned hawthorn. Wash the hawthorns, remove the core and set aside. Pour clean water and appropriate amount of white sugar and rock sugar into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat. When the soup in the pot becomes a little thick, you can put the reserved hawthorn into the pot and continue to cook for about ten minutes before removing from the pot. Pour it into a container and put it in the refrigerator after cooling for a while.

Way to eat it four: Candied Haws. Wash the hawthorn and soak it in light salt water for about a quarter of an hour, then take it out, wash it again and drain the water. Use bamboo sticks to string the drained hawthorns together and set aside. Put appropriate amount of white sugar and water in a casserole, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat. When you see the soup in the pot becomes thick and slightly yellowish, you can put the hawthorns into the sugar water in the pot. Then you will see that the hawthorns are immediately coated with a layer of sugar juice. Then wait for it to cool down slowly before eating.

2. What happens if you eat too much hawthorn?

Although eating hawthorn has the benefits of stimulating appetite, lowering blood lipids, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, if it is consumed in excess and exceeds the range that the human body can bear, the benefits will turn into disadvantages.

Stimulate the stomach and intestines: Hawthorn has a good effect on promoting digestion, but it does not protect the spleen and stomach. Therefore, if you eat too much hawthorn, it will promote the body to secrete more digestive fluid, which will irritate the stomach and intestines in the process.

Suffering from gastrointestinal diseases: Eating too much hawthorn may cause chronic gastric diseases. Especially if you eat too much hawthorn on an empty stomach, you may suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.

Impact on eating: Eating too much hawthorn will increase the sugar and starch content in the body. After they are digested and absorbed by the human body, they will increase the body's blood sugar level and make people feel full. This can cause people to have no appetite when it’s time to eat.