What is artichoke
Artichoke (pinyin: yang jì ), also known as food trust artichoke, vegetable artichoke, artichoke, is a plant of the genus Artichoke of the family Asteraceae that grows along the Mediterranean coast, and is generally transliterated in Hong Kong according to its Italian phonetic translation as yazhi bamboo or yazhi bamboo. Its flower buds can be used to cook vegetables, and it was first introduced to the Chinese community through Italian cuisine. It is now distributed in mainland China in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Hunan, Beijing, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Shandong provinces. Over the years, the consumption and import of artichokes in developed countries and regions such as Western Europe and the United States have been increasing, and canned products are in short supply in the international market. In order to meet the demand of the international market, there is a large area of planting in Taiwan Province of China, and the products are mainly exported for foreign exchange.
How to make artichoke delicious
The fleshy part of the immature head of artichoke is a delicious dish. It can be used as an ornamental vegetable, an aromatic vegetable, a flavoring vegetable, a health care vegetable, or eaten fresh and raw, with a sweet and fresh taste, and can also be used as hot pot hot. Its taste is similar between fresh bamboo shoots and mushrooms, with the flavor of walnuts, quite delicious. It is a thirst quencher. Artichoke smaller flower head is usually the most tender, by cooking and pouring sauce to eat or make salads or appetizers, canned; can also be used with meat, olive oil, lemon juice, chili peppers, garlic and salt and other seasoning ingredients stir-fry, the taste of tender and refreshing; can also be used as a soup with poultry and meat stewed, boiled, nutritious, clear liver and eyesight, fitness and beauty. Women eat help to protect the skin, face moisturizing. Artichoke flower ball in addition to flower buds within the buds can be directly raw, cooked food, its buds outsourcing petals can also be fully utilized, peeled off the periphery of the coarse fiber petals can be dried and directly soaked in wine to take, can also be made into artichoke tea soak water to drink, the taste of its special flowers with a fresh aroma, taste fresh, sweet and long-lasting, is a unique and distinctive taste of the flowers of the "vegetable artichoke tea". The leaves can also be boiled or cold.
Medicinal value of artichoke
Artichoke acid can: improve the vitality of the liver and promote the elimination of toxins in the liver (such as ammonia produced by the digestion of proteins), promote the regeneration of liver cells and enhance the secretion of bile and the digestion of fats (regulating cholesterol in the body) Artichoke contains other healing ingredients: the flavonoids and artichoke picotinin. These therapeutic substances have the function of assisting artichoke acid to protect the liver and promote liver detoxification.
And flavonoids have beneficial physiological effects. They are quite effective against malignant cells. It has a relieving effect on vascular purpura. Regular consumption of artichoke has the effect of treating chronic hepatitis, lowering cholestrol as well as treating indigestion, improving gastrointestinal function, increasing bile secretion and relieving constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, etc. Stimulation of bile secretion has the function of preventing arteriosclerosis and protecting the heart and blood. ?