It is known to all that fruits contain various kinds of nutrients which are beneficial to the physical health of the human body. Therefore, nearly all the people like to eat fruits. Generally speaking, many people mainly eat uncooked fruits in daily life. In fact, the nutritional value of some cooked fruits is rather high. These fruits include pear, hawthorn, pomelo and apple. 

Pear plays important roles in nourishing the lung and stopping cough. However, the natural of pear is cold, so it is unbeneficial for people to eat pear frequently. In order to remove the cold nature, people can boil pear for several minutes in hot water. The nutritional effect can be greatly improved and the lignin can be dissolved in the intestinal tract to remove toxic cholesterol for the human body.

Hawthorn can effectively defer the aging, treat dysmenorrhea and resist cancer for people. The patients with digestive cancer can increase the intake of hawthorn in daily life, as hawthorn can stop the synthesis of nitrosamine and restrain the carcinogenic function of aflatoxin. At the same time, hawthorn can also help patients improve digestion. People can cook hawthorn with rice together. According to the traditional Chinese medicine, hawthorn can be boiled with brown sugar to alleviate the pain caused by dysmenorrhea.

The peel of pomelo is very nutritious. It contains various nutrients like naringin and rutin which can resist oxidation, decrease the viscosity of blood, reduce the weight and defer the aging for the human body. However, in our daily life, many people ignore the medical effect of the pomelo peel, which is rather pitiful. When the peel of pomelo is cooked, the medical effect can be increased greatly. People can cut the soft meat in the peel of pomelo into pieces and boil them in warm water for 10 minutes. Then, people can add honey into the juice before they drink it.

Apple can release a lot of natural anti-oxidants called “polyphenols” after it is boiled. Polyphenols can not only decrease the blood sugar and blood fat, but also restrain the oxidation and kill bacteria. At the same time, they can also maintain the stable level of cholesterol. Therefore, the nutritional value of cooked apple is rather desirable. Before people boil apple, they should remove the peel and core to prevent possible danger. Peel can hide a lot of agricultural chemicals and core contains toxins which can cause poisoning.