Apple
For Chinese dietary therapy, Apple (苹果) is a food of Cool nature and Sweet · Sour flavor. A cool, juicy fruit that tradition relates to fluid generation and gentle preparations.
Traditional energetics
- Nature
- Cool
- Flavor
- Sweet · Sour
- Affinity
- Spleen · Stomach · Lung
- Direction of Qi
- Gently moistens and descends
- Season
- Autumn
- Group
- Fruit
How tradition reads it
A cool, juicy fruit that tradition relates to fluid generation and gentle preparations.
Classic stewed with a touch of cinnamon or tangerine peel; it has no relevant traditional antagonisms and combines with most preparations.
In the kitchen
Fresh, stewed, baked, or in sweet congee.
Commonly available; no substitute needed.
Current nutrition note
Rich in soluble fiber (pectin), especially with the skin.
Precautions
Do not eat the seeds in quantity; adapt texture for children and dysphagia, and adjust portions with diabetes.
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