What does the fragrance of bergamot do?

Bergamot is the fruit of bergamot in Rutaceae. Also known as Fushou Orange, Finger Orange and Mandarin Orange. It should be strange to most people. Its origin is India, and it is also cultivated in Guangxi, Anhui, Yunnan and Fujian provinces. When the fruit is ripe, carpels separate to form slender and curved fruit petals, which are like fingers, hence the name bergamot. Usually used as traditional Chinese medicine, or as an ornamental plant because of its peculiar fruit shape, it has the effects of regulating stomach and relieving pain, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, soothing the liver and regulating qi, and treating women's leukorrhagia. In addition, bergamot will be made into a large number of preserved fruits to eat and sell.

nutritive value

Bergamot contains crude fiber, ash, a lot of carbohydrates, dimethoxycoumarin, acrylic acid, palmitic acid, limonin, trihydroxydimethoxyflavone, limonin, carotene, a small amount of geraniol and hesperidin.

Functional action

Bergamot is warm, pungent, bitter and sour, and has the effects of aromatic regulating qi, invigorating stomach and stopping vomiting, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

economic value

Because bergamot has high ornamental value and medicinal value, its economic value is relatively high. All kinds of medicinal liquor made of bergamot are fragrant, sweet and delicious, which have been affirmed by experts many times. Bergamot health tea has won the national patent. Appraised by the Tea Quality Supervision, Inspection and Testing Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, bergamot contains amino acids, vitamins and various trace elements needed by the human body, which is a new excavation of the treasure house of Chinese herbal medicine. Aromatic oil extracted from the fruits, skins and leaves of bergamot has been used as an important raw material for high-grade tobacco spices internationally. Experts believe that the prospect of processing food, drinks and brewing bergamot wine with bergamot is very broad.