Lychee fruit is one of the sweetest and most refreshing fruit ever. On top of the fact, the lychee fruit is very nutritious. Lychee fruit is also known as the litchi chinensis or simply litchi. There are different variations in the spelling, but all of those differences refer to the same fruit. This exotic lychee fruit is one of the fruits from the soapberry family. The lychee tree is an evergreen tree. It can grow so high and reach the height of 100 feet. They can produce the fruits that are red or pale orange. Some other fruits are of the different shades but they are mostly of the same color. Another prominent characteristic of the fruit is the fact that the skin is rather tough and bumpy, however do not let if fool you because it is actually easy to peel.
At a glance, the lychee fruit looks like a very large raspberries. Each of the bumpy skin contains one white fleshy and large seed that certainly create a similar look to a drupe. The seed is inedible, so it is better to stay away from it. Lychee is a juicy fruit and although it is sweet, it also has a slight acidic taste and also smell. The fruit can be easily compared to grapes because both have the same sweet and acidic combination in flavor as well as in fragrance.
As mentioned earlier, the fruit is nutritious. It has so many health benefits for those consuming it. The fruit is mentioned several times in the Chinese legend and they say that people have to consume as many as several hundreds lychees per day in order to keep themselves healthy and to live longer. Many of the older Chinese still practice this consumption but there have not been any studies to report the positive effect on it.
On the other hand, there is medical proof that the fruit can help to reduce coughing, tumors, swollen glands and also ease the abdominal pain. Not only that flesh and juice of the fruit can help with those illnesses mentioned above, but the inedible seed can also be used to help with the neuralgia pain as well as testicular inflammation. When the lychee is made into tea, then it is said the drink will have the ability to cure diarrhea as well as smallpox. Moreover, in India, there are beliefs that the root, flower as well as the part of bark will be able to soothe sore throat.
