Homemade Plum Wine, Dried Plums Provide Beauty and Anti-Inflammatory Benefits

Green plum is a beloved fruit by the Japanese and is often a popular household meal ingredient. Green plum can be therapeutic both medicinally and nutritionally with many health benefits, such as aiding digestion and enhancing beauty. The fruit also has anti-fatigue and anti-inflammatory properties. Reiko Iga, a Japanese chef tells us how to make homemade plum wine and dried plums, and a Japanese doctor introduces the health benefits of enjoying plum wine. About Green Plum Green plum is a fruit of the Rosaceae prunus family. Grown in the hills and forests of China and other surrounding countries, the green plum is described as sweet and juicy with a crisp texture, rich in vitamin C. Used as a medicinal food green plum is high in citric acid, flavonoids such as threonine, and other nutrients essential to support the body’s metabolic function. Green plum helps regulate protein composition in the human body while preventing and aiding in curing cardiovascular, urinary, and digestive diseases. Iga, who has owned Japanese restaurants for 20 years, shares with the Epoch Times that the Japanese people are health-conscious. “Each year, we will make plum wine at home, as well as dried plums, to incorporate into our daily diet.” How to Make Green Plum Wine What is plum wine? The Brewery Association of Japan introduces how to incorporate green plum, alcohol, and sugar to make plum wine. Plum wine will only be refined after marinating and aging for months to years. When it is ready, green plum wine contains excellent medicinal value. Green plum wine, also known as yomeishu, is a herbal tonic. When enjoying a little daily, it alleviates fatigue and improves health. Iga said you could also make your own green plum wine at home, mixing and matching various ingredients based on your taste. Ingredients: 1 kg green plum, 600g-800g rock candy, 1.8 L shochu (distilled rice wine) Directions: Wash and clean green plums thoroughly. Remove stem ends with toothpicks. Soak plums in water for two hours, then dry them. Discard the water. Next, alternate a layer of green plum and rock candy in a container until two-thirds full. Pour in shochu, then close the lid tightly. Store the green plum wine container in a dark, cool place, away from sunlight. Make sure you shake it often thoroughly so that the rock candy dissolves and blends in more evenly. Green plum wine needs at least six months of marinating in the container before it is ready to use. You can also use the marinated plum meat for cooking. Green plum wine. (Shutter B Photo/Shutterstock) Why Is Green Plum Wine Good for Us? Dr. He Muxia has been practicing in Japan for over 30 years and graduated from the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Plum wine contains many vitamins, amino acids, citric acid, organic acids, and minerals such as potassium, calcium, and iron. Dr. He lists the following health benefits plum wine has for our overall health: 1. Improves Bowel Movement and Aids Digestion The cellulose and organic acids in green plum wine promote gastric acid secretion and intestinal peristalsis, effectively relieving constipation. 2. Beautifies and Promotes Youthful Skin The sweetness and sourness of the plum wine can stimulate parotid secretion in the salivary glands. While plum wine strengthens the metabolism of blood vessels and skin tissue, it also delays aging, smoothes uneven skin, and gives it a rosy glow. 3. Relieves Stress and Reduces Fatigue The high citric acid content in plum wine activates and accelerates metabolism. The activity helps decompose fatigue substances in the human body, relieving stress and reducing fatigue. 4. Removes Toxins and Alleviates Inflammation The large amount of organic acids in plum wine is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory with a curative effect on diarrhea and increases liver detoxifying functions. One thing to note, although plum wine has countless benefits, Dr. He warns people with stomach disorders, diabetes, liver deficiency, or alcohol allergy should avoid consuming plum wine. Dried plums. Ms.Rotchana suya/Shutterstock) How to Make Dried Plums at Home Iga shows us how to make homemade dried plums—nice for those who should not consume alcohol and everyone. Ingredients: 1 kg green plum, 150g salt, 200g rock candy or honey (you can increase the sweetness based on your preference) Directions: Wash and clean green plums with water thoroughly. Remove the stem ends with toothpicks. Dry plums with paper towels, rub with salt and leave aside to sweat for a few hours. After drying the green plums, alternate a layers of green plums and rock sugar in a container until full. Or, you can put green plums in a container and soak them with honey. Allow plums to marinate for about two weeks for fermentation. After a couple of weeks, lay the green plums out in the sun for three days to dry. Then your dried plums will be ready to eat. Iga also recommends switching up the recipes ba

Homemade Plum Wine, Dried Plums Provide Beauty and Anti-Inflammatory Benefits

Green plum is a beloved fruit by the Japanese and is often a popular household meal ingredient.

Green plum can be therapeutic both medicinally and nutritionally with many health benefits, such as aiding digestion and enhancing beauty. The fruit also has anti-fatigue and anti-inflammatory properties.

Reiko Iga, a Japanese chef tells us how to make homemade plum wine and dried plums, and a Japanese doctor introduces the health benefits of enjoying plum wine.

About Green Plum

Green plum is a fruit of the Rosaceae prunus family. Grown in the hills and forests of China and other surrounding countries, the green plum is described as sweet and juicy with a crisp texture, rich in vitamin C. Used as a medicinal food green plum is high in citric acid, flavonoids such as threonine, and other nutrients essential to support the body’s metabolic function.

Green plum helps regulate protein composition in the human body while preventing and aiding in curing cardiovascular, urinary, and digestive diseases.

Iga, who has owned Japanese restaurants for 20 years, shares with the Epoch Times that the Japanese people are health-conscious. “Each year, we will make plum wine at home, as well as dried plums, to incorporate into our daily diet.”

How to Make Green Plum Wine

What is plum wine? The Brewery Association of Japan introduces how to incorporate green plum, alcohol, and sugar to make plum wine. Plum wine will only be refined after marinating and aging for months to years. When it is ready, green plum wine contains excellent medicinal value.

Green plum wine, also known as yomeishu, is a herbal tonic. When enjoying a little daily, it alleviates fatigue and improves health.

Iga said you could also make your own green plum wine at home, mixing and matching various ingredients based on your taste.

Ingredients: 1 kg green plum, 600g-800g rock candy, 1.8 L shochu (distilled rice wine)

Directions:

  • Wash and clean green plums thoroughly.
  • Remove stem ends with toothpicks.
  • Soak plums in water for two hours, then dry them. Discard the water.
  • Next, alternate a layer of green plum and rock candy in a container until two-thirds full.
  • Pour in shochu, then close the lid tightly.
  • Store the green plum wine container in a dark, cool place, away from sunlight.
  • Make sure you shake it often thoroughly so that the rock candy dissolves and blends in more evenly.
  • Green plum wine needs at least six months of marinating in the container before it is ready to use. You can also use the marinated plum meat for cooking.
Epoch Times Photo
Green plum wine. (Shutter B Photo/Shutterstock)

Why Is Green Plum Wine Good for Us?

Dr. He Muxia has been practicing in Japan for over 30 years and graduated from the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Plum wine contains many vitamins, amino acids, citric acid, organic acids, and minerals such as potassium, calcium, and iron. Dr. He lists the following health benefits plum wine has for our overall health:

1. Improves Bowel Movement and Aids Digestion

The cellulose and organic acids in green plum wine promote gastric acid secretion and intestinal peristalsis, effectively relieving constipation.

2. Beautifies and Promotes Youthful Skin

The sweetness and sourness of the plum wine can stimulate parotid secretion in the salivary glands. While plum wine strengthens the metabolism of blood vessels and skin tissue, it also delays aging, smoothes uneven skin, and gives it a rosy glow.

3. Relieves Stress and Reduces Fatigue

The high citric acid content in plum wine activates and accelerates metabolism. The activity helps decompose fatigue substances in the human body, relieving stress and reducing fatigue.

4. Removes Toxins and Alleviates Inflammation

The large amount of organic acids in plum wine is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory with a curative effect on diarrhea and increases liver detoxifying functions.

One thing to note, although plum wine has countless benefits, Dr. He warns people with stomach disorders, diabetes, liver deficiency, or alcohol allergy should avoid consuming plum wine.

Epoch Times Photo
Dried plums. Ms.Rotchana suya/Shutterstock)

How to Make Dried Plums at Home

Iga shows us how to make homemade dried plums—nice for those who should not consume alcohol and everyone.

Ingredients: 1 kg green plum, 150g salt, 200g rock candy or honey (you can increase the sweetness based on your preference)

Directions:

  • Wash and clean green plums with water thoroughly.
  • Remove the stem ends with toothpicks.
  • Dry plums with paper towels, rub with salt and leave aside to sweat for a few hours.
  • After drying the green plums, alternate a layers of green plums and rock sugar in a container until full. Or, you can put green plums in a container and soak them with honey.
  • Allow plums to marinate for about two weeks for fermentation.
  • After a couple of weeks, lay the green plums out in the sun for three days to dry. Then your dried plums will be ready to eat.

Iga also recommends switching up the recipes based on your liking. For example, If you like perilla plums, you can prepare your perilla leaves by rubbing them with some salt. Squeeze out the excess water, then air dry the leaves before soaking them with the plums in the container.