longan fruit dried

Longan is a familiar dish with Vietnamese people and is a precious ingredient in Traditional Medicine. Longan is warm and temperate, affecting the Heart and Pi. The benefits that longan bring are: Nourish blood and blood – Good blood, treat anemia and nourish the skin, soften the skin. Peace of mind – Mental health care, anxiety treatment, thinking a lot.

Dried Longan Vietnam or dragon’s eyes

  1. What is Dried Longan Vietnam or dragon’s eyes

The longan grows in many provinces in the North. The longan is no bigger than a ping-pong ball with brownish peel. The peel only has to be slightly removed to reach the whitish pulp, enclosing the glistening black kernel.

Longan plant is an evergreen tree, usually about 10 meters high. It has buttress root. Stout branchlets are puberulent and scattered with pale lenticels. Even pinnately compound leaf is alternate; the length of leaf with handle is from 15 to 30cm or even longer; leaflets are 4 to 5 pairs, or 3 to 6 pairs sometimes, and with small petiole that is usually no more than 5mm; blade is thin and leathery, from oblong-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate. Large inflorescence is acrogenous and axillary, with multiple branches, and densely covered with stellate hairs; pedicels are short; Sepals are nearly leathery, triangular-ovate, and about 2.5mm. Both sides are covered with brown tomentum and bundle of stellate hairs. Fruit is subglobose, drupaceous, indehiscent, 1.2 to 2.5cm in diameter, and usually brown or sometime pale yellow. Shell is slightly rough or few are with strumaes. Seeds are dark brown, bright, and completely wrapped by fleshy aril. Flowering time is from March to April and fruit season is from July to September.

longan fruit fresh in tree

longan fruit fresh in tree

There are many varieties of longans. The most renowned variety of longan is the cage longan of Hung Yen Province. There are varieties that have a thick pulp and a very sweet taste called pulp longan. Water longans have a thin watery pulp and a fresh sweet taste. In the South, there is the longan of Chau Thanh (Dong Thap Province), which is fairly renowned. This variety has a watery pulp, a very sweet taste, a perfumed scent, and small black seeds, which is why it is called nhan tieu (pepper grain longan).

2. Dried longan Hung Yen Vietnam

Currently, Hung Yen province has about 3,300 ha of longan grown in Hung Yen, Khoai Chau, Kim Dong and Tien Lu districts, producing about 40,000 tons of fruit annually. In the province, there are 155 hectares of high-standard planted in Hong Nam, Hung Yen and Ham Tu communes in Khoai Chau district. These high standard label areas are granted export codes by the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the US and other countries.

With the largest area of ​​cultivation in the country, and the quality of longan fruit is especially famous, longan processing is a traditional profession of Hung Yen, bringing high economic efficiency, mainly concentrated in the Phuong Chieu commune , Hong Nam (Hung Yen city), Thu Sy (Tien Lu).

As usual, at the end of June lunar year, when the label garden in Hung Yen began to ripen as well as a new processing of longan began.

At the same time, the processing of dragon fruit began to “fire”, the spinning of the label mainly by the elderly, children undertake … Long after the sticky rice will be exported to China by the small Small, small retail is provided in the country.

longan fruit fresh

longan fruit fresh

3. Composition and used dried longan

Medicinally it mainly refers to the aril of Dimocarpus longan Lour. or Euphoria Longan (Lour.) Steud., which is a plant in the family Sapindaceae. Hence, other names of it include Long Yan, Longan Aril, Arillus Longan, Longan Flesh, dragon eyes, and Gui Yuan. It is normally picked in the summer when the fruits become mature. And then it needs to get through a few more steps before the use – shell and pit removed, dried in the sun, and stored in dry place.

Longan fruit is easy to eat, can be eaten fresh, dried or processed into a variety of drinks and foods that are both delicious and bring many health benefits. The basic nutritional composition of over 100g of longan pulp includes:

  • Carbohydrates: 15.14 g
  • Fiber: 1.1 g
  • Fat: 0.10 g
  • Protein: 1.31 g

Longan is rich in nutritional value such as carbs, natural sugars, vitamins and minerals. Every 100g contains abundant vitamin content:

  • Vitamin C: 84 mg
  • Riboflavin (B2): 0.14 g
  • Thiamine (B1): 0.03 mg
  • Niacin (B3): 0.3 mg

With a rich source of vitamin C, longan and dishes made from this fruit are not only good for the skin but also increase resistance. In addition, the label contains rich mineral content:

  • Copper: 0.17 mg
  • Potassium: 266.0 mg
  • Manganese: 0.05 mg
  • Magnesium: 10.0 mg
  • Phosphorus: 21.0 mg
  • Iron: 0.13 mg
  • Zinc: 0.05 mg
  • Calcium: 1.0 mg

Each 100g longan will contain 60 calories. Compared with some other summer fruits: 100g lychee will contain 66 calories, watermelon contains 30 calories, durian contains 147 calories, avocado contains 160 calories, etc.

Benefit of Longan
According to Modern Medicine, the pharmacological components of longan include glucose, flavoproteins, tannins, saponins, fats…have the following effects:

  • Anti-aging skin and bones
  • Prevent eye diseases, reduce vision
  • Strengthen the immune system, increase natural resistance, protect health
  • Promote circulation, bring blood to the organs in the body
  • Increases the durability and elasticity of blood vessels, thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases and blood pressure
  • In Traditional Medicine, longan is warm and temperate, acting on the heart and spleen. The benefits of longan are:
  • Replenish Qi and Blood – Good blood, treat anemia and nourish the face, soften the skin
  • Peace of mind – Mental health care, anxiety treatment, thinking a lot
  • Treatment of palpitations, palpitations, arrhythmias
  • Treatment of diseases of anorexia, undigested eating makes the body tired
  • Cure neurasthenia, poor memory or frequent insomnia

In Oriental medicine, longan can be used alone or in combination with a number of medicinal herbs, creating remedies for many different ailments. Here are some reference ladders using longan medicine with certain therapeutic effects:

  • Remedies for damaged spleen, diarrhea – the chemical function of the spleen is impaired, stomach distention, indigestion: Sac daily drink Longan with Sinh Khuong.
  • Remedies to treat heart failure, bad yin – poor function of waste, new epidemic consumption: Longan, goji berries, bird’s nest cooked with enough alum sugar.
  • Remedy to treat asthenia: Dilute alum sugar with Longan to cool, mix with water daily.
  • In addition, the remedies using longan are also prepared in the form of medicinal alcohol, medicinal herbs (porridge, tea, …) and convenient herbal teas for daily use:
  • Longan medicinal wine soaked for 2-3 months has the effect of curing neurasthenia, enhancing physiology.
  • Porridge with peeled chestnuts smashed, cooked with longan for people who are nervous, heart rhythm disorders, back pain and knee pain.
  • Nourishing tea cooked from goji berries, longan, persimmon, peach resin, snow nest,…
  • Huong Lien Moist Tea helps to calm the mind and calm down, with ingredients including longan and incense, tea buds and small needles.

The longan is a tropical fruit rich in nutrients. It is used in the preparation of sweet lotus seed soups. A longan that has been rid of its black kernel then dried over a fire is called long nhan (literally: dragon’s eyes); it is one of the tonics used in the recipes of traditional medicine.

Dried Longan fruit

Dried Longan fruit or dragon’s eyes

Thanks to its juicy, sweet, and pulpy texture and exotic flavor, longan fruit, a well-known tropical succulent treat, has been one of the favorite choices of all time, from toddlers to the aged. It is also called Long Yan Rou or the flesh of Dragon’s Eye if translated in a literal way. It is named so because of its round black shiny seed and white protuberant umbilici, which look like the eyes of the legendary “Dragon”. Fresh longan fruits are so delicate and delicious that it is very difficult for you to forget it for once you have tasted it. However, very few people realize that it is also a good medicine. Actually this Asian fruit has a lot of health benefits, and sometimes can even play an important role on treating serious illness, in particular on women’s severe blood deficiency. That’s to say, it often works magic, especially in the cases of no other drugs will be effective. Attention please, the longan we are talking about here is the dried version.

4. Used Longan fruit dried or dragon’s eyes as food

PREPARING

There are many kind of dishes to use Longan but mostly we should eat fresh fruit. Or

– Stew longans in sugar and also syrup: they’ll keep for a long period.

– Their fairly sweet rejuvenating flavor makes longans an excellent choice for sorbet

– Slice the fruit as an element of an exotic salad and can include along with pineapple, carambola along with a soy-based dressing.

– Use in jello recipes, as their texture matches those of jello’s.

– Make vodka jello shots and also include pieces of the fresh fruit

– Dry the flesh on the slow, open fire and also add some smoky fruit to soups

– Serve cut longans along with cantaloupe or any other melons along with coconut ice cream.

– People can use Longan to make many kind of desert as well.

sup Dried Longan fruit

soup Dried Longan fruitor dragon’s eyes with dried lotus seed

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