1.    Peanut can be used to cure high blood pressure: Soak the peanut kernels into vinegar for a week, eat 10 for morning and 10 for night.

2.    Peanut with red skin can be used to cure anemia: Boil the peanut kernel with skin(250 g) until it becomes extensive soft, eat it 3 times a week.

3.    Raw peanut has the medical effect of treating hemophilia: eat raw peanut 3 times per day(20 g each time), 7-14 days as a course of treatment.

4.    Peanut is also useful in curing bronchiectasis: green radish 100 g, peanut kernels with skin 60g, 1 persimmon, wash and clean them, cut them into small particles, boil them with crystal sugar.

5.    Peanut without skin can be used to treat cough: 50 g of peanut kernel, 5 Chinese dates, crystal sugar 50 g, boil them for 7-10 minutes, drink it twice a day.

The grape seed extract EGS contains large quantities of polyphenols, lipid and mineral matters that are essential to people. It has the treatment effect of vascular function, inflammation, treatment of diabetic complications such as neuropathy or retinal disease, promote wound healing, prevention of decayed tooth, cancer, age-related macular degeneration, night blindness, liver cirrhosis, etc.

Each year most of the harvested grapes are made into wines, juices and drinks, the by-product raisin seed can be made into vegetable oil for the pilot and people who are at high altitude jobs. Raisin with seed has higher nutrition value.

Raisin is a very delicious healthy snack food, like other dried fruits, its sugar content is very high, so use it as the emergency energy supply food or avoid eating too much of them in one day. As summer is coming, raisin can be used in many ice cream recipes too.

Hawthorn berry can be made into many kind of different food in China, while in the kitchen, dried haw flakes is one of the most used ingredient. Do you know why dried haw flakes are able to improve your digestion condition? Is it the same with some pills in the pharmacy? The answer is no, and dried haw flakes contains Hawthorn acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid and lipolytic enzyme that can dissolve the meat in a very short time. Meat is always food that requires longer time to digest, one tip in cooking is that add some pieces of dried haw flakes would shorten the time of cooking meat food.

One bad effect of haw food is that it is bad for the teeth, cook it first or make it into juice and drink it with a straw can avoid the teeth problem. Dried haw flakes also contains a lot of vitamins, these vitamins will not be destroyed by the heat in cooking due to the multi-organic acids it has. Dried haw flake has many other medicinal functions, get to know it before you enjoy it.

How to produce the best dried pear products(halves/slices)? There might be easy ways of doing it, but to get the best dried pear product requires strict standards:

1.    Cleaning, slicing, removing the core: wash the pear and soak it into NaOH solvent(the concentration is 5%-10%), the temperature is 85-90 ℃, stir it slowly until the skin is broken,  then put it into citric acid (concentration is 0.3-0.5%) for 1 minute, use clean water to wash the skin off, then cut the pear into 4 pieces, remove the core part in the center.

2.    Color protection, hardening: pear is very easy to be oxidized in the open air once the skin is removed, the color would change, so is the pear taste. Color protection and hardening are done together, use Vtic, citric acid and Na2SO3 as the color protecting agent, CaCl2 as the hardener, soak the pear halves in the liquid for 3 hours.

3.    Sugaring and soaking: the sugar liquid concentration shall be 65%, sugar liquid and pear halves in the proportion of 3:1, boil it for 1 hour, cool it and soak it for another 20 hours.

4.    Drying : the drying process can be divided into 2 parts: dry it with the temperature of 70 ℃ for 4-5 hours, then lower the temperature to 50℃ for 20 hours. Then package the cooled dried pear halves.

Dried goji berry contains many nutritional matters: Betaine, polysaccharide, crude fat, crude protein, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, etc. The modern test on animals shows that it doesn’t contain any toxic matters and shall be taken daily without any side effect. It has positive effects on the hematopoietic function, anti-aging, antimutagenic, anti – tumor, anti fatty liver and hypoglycemic effect.

How to tell if the goji is good or not? The most effective way is to taste it, the good dried goji berry tastes sweet and the color doesn’t look very bright, the low quality goji tastes bitter or with very light sweetness. Goji berry can be used in cooking many foods, while the expert of Chinese medicine suggest the patient to eat raw goji berries for less nutritional matters loss, because the high temperature in cooking would damage most of the nutritional matters.

Vitamin C and quercetin are the 2 main element that can enhance your immunity system, fruit is the best source to get them, here are some general fruit suggestions for you:

1.    If you have trouble in choosing, choose the fruits in dark color.

2.    Pineapple contains comprehensive vitamins and minerals that a person need.

3.    Green Raisin is a kind of healthy dried fruit, in the research of H1N1, flu virus seems to has certain kind of resistance to the medicines, while people who drinks red wine, grape food or raisin seems to have less chance of becoming sick. The test showed that phenol compounds in raisin could forma thin membrane outside of the virus, thus it loses the ability to emerge with the normal cells.

4.    Mushrooms: The egg and meat are not the only protein resource, mushrooms contains 17-18 kinds of amino acids, 8-9 of them are the essential amino acids, the physiological activity of fungi proteins is higher than eggs and meat, their absorption rate is very high(80%-85%), it is the best alternative protein resource for you.

Here are the simple steps of making canned strawberries:

1.    Raw material: choose strawberries which are large particles, even sizes, fresh red color, no damage and scar, no pests problem and have strong strawberry smell.

2.    Cleaning：put the fresh strawberries into clean water to wash the sand and dirt off.

3.    Pedicel removing: handle this step with care to avoid damage to the skin, you can do it with a fruit knife or a straw go though the center of the strawberry, the straw and knife shall be cleaned previously.

4.    Cooking: make 40% concentration of syrup, heat it in a pot until it is boiling, then add the strawberries into the pot, make it boiling for 10 minutes, cool them and put them into a container for 6-8 hours.

If you don’t have the time to do this yourself, you can buy the bulk canned strawberry in fruits store, with the extra sugar added, they are much sweeter than the fresh ones.

The fruit expert says the product remains less competitive on international market due to the shortage of specific apple with high acidity among china, but it doesn’t influence the whole apple processing industry, high acidity apple are mainly used to produce apple juice, not dehydrated apple products like the dried apple dices with skin and dried apple slices.

Since China is the largest producer of apples in the world, the apple processing factories should be thankful to China due to the low price of apple, you would be able to find hundreds of different apple species in the China market.

After all those years of developing, the development of apple cultivate in China can be called blind developing, it would be better if there is an apple association formed to make the apple production in China more logical and more organized. But this doesn’t change the fact that China can provide the best apple dices with skin and other apple products to most countries in the world.

Kiwi fruit couldn’t be preserved for a very long time, it’s skin is more fragile compared with other fruits like the apples, oranges. The fresh fruit is very delicious, but when it is out of season, the dried kiwi fruit can be a good replacement. The preservation of dried kiwi dices or slices is very simple, keep them in a sealed airless plastic bag and you can increase the shelf life for 12 month or more.

The nutritional value of kiwi fruit has been tested and measured in the lab, the dietary fibre and pectin content could improve your digestion, absorb system and prevents constipation and intestinal diseases; it also contains a kind of microorganism that can decompose the fat and generate protein, people who have to stay up at night should take one kiwi fruit to release the digest pressure; it also contains the matter-Carnitine, which can decompose the oil and fat in your body, so it is the best fruit for people who want to lose weight.

Dry fruits aren’t always made with preservatives, so learn to preserve the dry fruits is very important if you don’t want all your time and money becomes a bunch of trash. From the chemical view, most of the seed kernels are high on oil and fat, the chances of oxidation in the open air is very high, and high moisture increases the chances of getting moldy.

Mould and oil oxide are very harmful for people’s health, never eat the spoiled dry fruits. If you want to keep your dry fruits for a longer time, here are some of the tips for you:

1. The dry fruits are easy to store when the shells are complete and with no damage, but usually for the convenient of eating, the shells are broken in the food processing factory.

2. If you don’t have the choice of buying complete dry fruits, then you have to keep the storage room dry and clean, the vacuuming package is a very good option for you, put it into the refrigerator if possible, low temperature could slow down the growing speed of microbe.

Anyway, try to enjoy your dried fruits while they are still good, don’t wait too long after you bought them, there is always good quality dry fruits supplied in the market, it is what they are made for-to be eaten.