Longan is a kind of fruit that we all love to eat, but many friends can’t tell what is longan and what is cinnamon.

What is the difference between longan and cinnamon

In fact, longan and cinnamon is very good to distinguish, longan is we now pick down, fresh is called longan. Come to the longan after drying, like this longan after drying is called cinnamon, they are different in that one is fresh, one is dried, but they are a little different in the eating method, this fresh longan we are now picking eat, and after drying cinnamon, its medicinal value is very high, generally we are using it to simmer soup or simmering medicines, the difference between the longan and cinnamon we all know it?

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Peeled longan reveals crystal clear “eye white”, with a vaguely visible black kernel, indeed extremely similar to the eye, “longan” as the name suggests. In Fujian and Guangdong and other places, longan also “sheep’s eye fruit”, “cow’s eye”. And the name of the cinnamon, one said is because of the old saying “dragon” taboo, but also because of its production from Guangxi, so take its “Gui”, another saying is because of its maturity in Dan Gui fragrance, and the shape of the round and named.

Longan is the origin of the species of China, I Chao south and southwest of the abundance of production, and now in Southeast Asia are also planted, and has even spread to Australia and the American continent. Longan and lychee, bananas, pineapples are the four heavenly kings of South China’s fruits. Because the legend is rich in nutrients, very nourishing, but not easy to save, so it is often made of dried things mixed in a variety of desserts, especially supplements, there is a “southern cinnamon, northern ginseng,” said.

Longan tree longevity, up to 400 years, solid wood, is a good material for shipbuilding, playing furniture. Longan wood made of charcoal, high calorific value, good flavor, is the first choice of carbon grill. The nectar of longan is called “longan honey”, which is the best honey.

Nourishing and not chatting, the flavor of longan is really fascinating, especially after the air-dried cinnamon meat, desserts and sugar water are indispensable to it, a few into a hundred match.

The white of the eye of longan is actually not the flesh, but the aril between the fruit skin and the seed, the sweetness of longan is that this contains a large amount of fructose.

And a lot of fructose intake will affect the body’s normal sugar metabolism, thus causing tooth swelling and pain and even mouth ulcers, the so-called “fire” is not brought by the longan, sugar to eat more so.

Longan and lychee is a good brother?

Longan and lychee are very similar, what is their relationship? In fact, the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo, a great eater, the old man was relegated to the southern barbaric land in his later years, for others must be depressed, but he was all day to play in the water, eat heart does not change, has written a “Lianzhou longan quality and taste special absolute can rival the Lychee” scientific papers, “longan and Lychee, different from the same father and grandfather,” he said.

Longan and Lychee is really the same family of different plants, it is the two belong to the Sapindaceae, is a close relative, is indeed “the same father and grandfather” of the cousins.