Dazi Jujube of Dawu

Dazi Jujube of Dawu

　　Jujube. It looks quite peculiar, but tastes sweet and delicious. Jujube has high nutritional value. According to analysis by scientific research departments, its fleshy fruit stalk contains 24% sucrose, 9.5% glucose, and 7.92% fructose. It has a pleasant flavor and can be eaten raw as a fruit. Hence, it enjoys the reputation of being a “candy tree,” and is also known by the elegant names “chicken claw pear” and “sweet midnight.” In addition, it is rich in organic acids, inorganic salts such as potassium malate, and contains various vitamins and 18 essential amino acids required by the human body. It also provides trace nutrients such as iron, phosphorus, calcium, copper, manganese, and zinc, as well as some alkaloids. Each 100 grams of the fleshy stalk of jujube contains 74 mg of crude fat, 3.07 mg of crude protein, 345.8 mg of total acid, and 16.29 mg of vitamin C. It is a wild fruit resource with great development potential.