Peach gum is believe to have beauty benefits like bird nest...but much more affordable. While I don't know how much of this truly helps (as in I can't find scientific explanations yet), I know from experience that a lot of my Mom's wisdom passed on from our ancestors did help me. Is peach gum safe for pregnancy? Though peach gum is a healthy ingredient from nature, it is best not to eat peach gum when you are pregnant. It is believed that if a pregnant woman consumes too much peach gum during pregnancy, it will affect the baby’s development in the womb. Toddler and children below 8 years old Besides what can I lose from eating something natural and plant-base (not bird's saliva) like peach gum? So yes, I am going to continue enjoying this dessert and hopefully reap its purported beauty benefits. Peach gum is usually soaked overnight or up to 18 hours before cooking or consuming to soften its texture from the hardened resin. Peach gum will typically absorb the water that it is soaked into and expand 8 to 10 times of its initial size. Thus, make sure that you select a bigger bowl or container that could fit the expanded size of the peach gum after soaked in water. For a bigger piece of peach gum, it will require to soak in water for a longer time as the center of the resin could be still hard. Peach gum recipe Peach gum (also known as ‘peach blossom tears’) is a type of hardened resin that’s found on trees that grow peaches. The resin builds up on the bark and eventually solidifies to become the main ingredient we use for this recipe.

You can find all of these ingredients dried at Chinese supermarkets. Mum gets her peach gum from Asian vegetarian specialty stores or Chinese medicinal shops.Lest you think these are super obscure ingredients, a couple traditional Chinese medicine ingredients are now in the mainstream including ginseng and goji berries. Soak the peach gums in clean water for at least 8 hours or up to 12 hours so they can grow to their maximum size as much as possible Peach gum is not recommended for people with “cold” body types, pregnant women, toddlers or children below 8 years old, and people with a poor digestive system. This is because peach gum belongs to a cool nature and it is harder to be digested for certain groups of people. People with “cold” body type Tao Jiao (Peach Resin, Peach Gum, 桃胶) - Chinese Herbs - Chinese Dessert - Peach Gum - Peach Resin - Tao Jiao - Bulk Chinese Herbs - Bulk Chinese Herbs Canada - The Herb Depot – The Herb Depot

I’ve been eating them daily for half a year now and has only notice good improvement on my body and skin but read now that it can be harmful and causes disease when taken daily. ReplyNo one should consume raw peach gum as it is just like hardened resin. Peach gum soaked overnight or up to 18 hours is soft in texture, however, it will just taste like plain gummy bears. Before further cooking or consuming the peach gum, you should also remove any dirt or impurities in it. It is recommended to eat peach gum which has been softened by soaking overnight, impurities removed and slowly brought to a boil and cooked down. How to clean peach gum? I love peach resin because it’s an all-natural, unprocessed product that also tastes good and is fun to eat. And remember the bone broth craze? That was all about collagen. It takes a lot of bones and a lot of time to make bone broth. Peach resin? Just a couple minutes, once you soak the pieces. Take some of the resin into the palm of your hand and remove the debris from the resin and put the debris into the bowl of water. The cleaned resin goes into the clean container. Continue until the resin is completely clear of foreign materials No. Although peach gum has a lot of benefits, you should not consume peach gum every day. Peach gum is a colloidal substance that is hard to digest in the stomach. If you take peach gum every day, it will increase the burden of the spleen and stomach, leading to the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach, and lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Who cannot eat peach gum?