Saponaria rice, commonly known as snow lotus seed, soap nut, and soap essence, is the fruit of the soap pod. Is a high-energy, high-carbohydrate, low-protein, low-fat food. And contains plant-based dietary fiber.

Saponaria arborescens, up to 15 m. Spines stout, usually branched, up to 16 cm long, cylindrical. Branchlets glabrous. One even-pinnate leaf, 12-18cm long; 6-14 leaflets, long ovate, long elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 3-8cm long, 1.5-3.5cm wide, apex obtuse or acuminate, base obliquely rounded or obliquely cuneate, margin serrulate, glabrous.

Flowers polygamous, arranged in axillary racemes; calyx campanulate, with 4 lanceolate lobes; petals 4, white; stamens 6-8; ovary striped, hairy along suture. Pods bar-shaped, not twisted, 12-30 long, 2-4 cm wide, slightly thick, black-brown, covered with white powdery cream.

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Nutritional value

1, sex great heat. For rheumatism rheumatoid and kidney deficiency caused by lumbar and knee pain, sexual dysfunction, women's menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, disintegration are very effective.

2, rich in protein and amino acids, can effectively regulate the body's pH, enhance human immunity and anti-fatigue, anti-aging effect.

3, contains natural snow lotus yellow refuges rut 5, snow lotus endolipids, snow lotus polysaccharides and so on. Its sunscreen factor is as high as 22DSE, so it can effectively protect the skin from ultraviolet rays, improve skin pigmentation, slow down the aging of the human body, so that people always stay young.

4, snow lotus seed another way to call: soapberry rice, and snow lotus seed should be the same kind of food. Snow lotus seed is pure natural and pollution-free fruit endosperm, its high nutritional value, low-fat food, with weight loss, nourishing Yin and skin.

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