Chinese Food Therapy, Longan, a Wonderful Tonic Fruit

Longan has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for various purposes, such as soothing nerves, relieving insomnia and increasing blood metabolism. Longan fruits are alternately eaten fresh, and they have elegant and sweet-tasting flesh. This fruit can also be processed to make dried pulp, jam, drinks, wine and canned fruit. This review article suggested verifying that longan is the dominant source of constituents with beneficial nutritional and bioactive characteristics, but more clinical researches may be needed to reveal the countless substances and their impacts in longan that present to public health.