When it comes to expensive fruits, cherries can definitely beat the vast majority of fruits, leaving many people lamenting the inability to achieve cherries' freedom.

It's okay, the "domestic cherries" will be on the market soon. The price is reasonable, the taste is good, and eating them in summer is also good for the heart! Friends who missed cherries, don't miss it~
Eat more cherries in summer
Chinese cherries, commonly known as cherries or small cherries, have a cultivation history of over 3000 years and are known as "treasures of fruits" and "the first branch of spring fruit".
It belongs to the same family as cherries, with similar flavors and almost no difference in nutrition.
But due to the small size, roundness, and thin skin of Chinese cherries, which are not durable for storage and inconvenient for transportation, we often can only eat them during the season when they are on the market.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cherries are both good fruits and good medicines, and are most suitable for consumption in summer.
1. Nourishing Heart and Blood
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, Su Wen Liu Jie Cang Xiang Lun, records: "The mind is connected to the Xia Qi.".
Human blood is easily consumed in high temperatures, and the heart is also more susceptible to damage.
Cherry red enters the heart and can nourish heart qi and blood, known as the "fruit of the heart". Eating some in early summer can effectively nourish blood and protect the heart.
2. Tonify temperament
From the perspective of the Five Elements, the heart and spleen are in a mother child relationship. The heart belongs to fire, while the spleen belongs to soil. The heart fire generates the spleen soil, which in turn can nourish the heart and blood with a healthy temperament and sufficient source of transformation.
Eating cherries in early summer can stimulate blood flow, promote spleen and stomach health, and enhance immunity.
3. dispelling wind and nourishing blood
Most skin itching (but without rash) problems are related to external wind evil and blood deficiency.
Cherries can nourish blood, dispel wind, and alleviate skin itching problems.
4. Beauty and skincare
In the Commentary on the Compendium of Materia Medica, it is said that cherries "have a sweet taste, a moderate tone, are beneficial to the temperament, bring good color, and are beautiful."
So, friends who love beauty may want to eat some cherries for beauty and skincare.
In addition to the above benefits, modern nutrition believes that cherries contain a high amount of vitamin C, iron, potassium, and dietary fiber, which can prevent and improve iron deficiency anemia, and also help stabilize blood pressure.
It has the characteristics of low calorie and low glycemic index, and is very friendly to people who lose weight and people with diabetes.
In addition, the melatonin contained in cherries is very beneficial for improving sleep quality. Don't miss out on friends with poor sleep~
Cherry consumption precautions
Cherries are suitable for the general population to consume, especially for those with spleen and stomach deficiency, indigestion, loose stools and diarrhea, rheumatism, lower back and leg pain, arthritis, weak constitution, anemia and fatigue, and a dull complexion.
But cherries are warm in nature and should not be consumed in large quantities, especially for those with febrile diseases, cough caused by deficiency heat, constipation, and excessive heat; People with ulcer symptoms, diabetes, renal insufficiency and oliguria should be cautious.
When parents give their children cherries, they should be careful not to let them bite the fruit pits and be careful not to choke on them.
How to buy sweet cherries?
Firstly, it can be distinguished by color. Cherries with darker colors are generally sweeter, while those with lighter colors are mostly sour.
Secondly, the cherry has a regular shape, a full and round belly, and a large head. The entire cherry is in a D-shaped flat round shape, and the deeper the concave part of the stem, the sweeter it becomes.
The correct way to clean cherries is to soak and wash them first, and then remove the stem after soaking and washing, so as not to contaminate the flesh.