China has a long history of edible flowers. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people regarded Osmanthus Jelly and Chrysanthemum Cake as banquet treasures. In the Qing Dynasty's "Fanfangpu", the preparation methods of more than 21 kinds of flower foods are described in detail, such as sweet-scented osmanthus balls, jasmine soup, sweet-scented osmanthus scallops, jasmine chicken breast, chrysanthemum cake, and crystal sugar lily soup, which are tonic and can also treat bronchitis and neurasthenia. Chrysanthemum can be used to make high-grade food and dishes. Plum blossoms can be used to make preserves and jam. Osmanthus fragrans can be used to make osmanthus candy, cakes, osmanthus sauce and osmanthus wine. The fruits or bulbs of many flowers and trees can also be eaten raw. Such as pomegranate, kumquat, fig, grape, and other fruits, as well as the underground stems and bulbs of lotus, lily and Polygonatum odoratum, are all nutritious and edible products. Nutritional value of pollen: Pollen is a reproductive organ of seed plants, a male sperm cell and a fine substance for plant generations. Pollen is a nutrient-rich natural substance and a concentrated complete nutrient, which is called "green gold", "all-round nutrient bank" and "mini-nutrient bank". Pollen contains high-quality protein, up to more than 31%, containing 22 kinds of amino acids, 8 times higher than eggs, milk and meat, and 15 kinds of vitamins, which are higher than any fruit and better than vitamin capsules. Among them, the contents of VE and B2 are extremely high, which is five times more than that of wheat germ? /FONT> LO times; It also contains more than 21 kinds of trace elements, more than 81 kinds of bioactive substances such as enzymes, hormones and flavonoids, and rich nucleic acids. The bioactive substances in pollen have wonderful regulating functions on various physiological functions of the body and physiological activities of various organ systems, so pollen is used for health care of almost all organ systems of the body and has a good therapeutic effect on diseases of all organ systems.
(2) Flowers and delicacies
Flowers are colorful, elegant and unique, fragrant and full of vitality, which not only give people beautiful enjoyment, but also are rich in protein, fat, starch, various amino acids and vitamins, as well as various nutrients essential to human body, such as macro elements and trace elements, and have certain medicinal value and health care functions. Chewing flowers existed in ancient Rome as early as two thousand years ago, and now it has set off a new upsurge in the United States. Even Michael Jackson, a sickly international rock star, once ate seven fresh-picked flowers in a hotel in Florida with an excellent appetite. Flower cooking has also become popular. The chef removed the roses from the surface of the soup, made salad with dandelion buds, and made pancakes with flowers. The most popular among diners should be cakes sprinkled with rose perfume and lettuce vegetable oil. The upsurge of eating flowers is not the creation of anyone, but the retro enthusiasm inadvertently aroused by restaurant owners and flower farmers in California. There is a paradise farm in Gabriella, California, and its owner Nuyin is the first person in California to sell organically grown edible flowers. The business is very good and the demand is often in short supply. He planted nearly 41 kinds of edible flowers. The first species was the Trollius chinensis. Later, it was found that the sesame cauliflower was beautiful and delicious, so it began to be planted in large quantities. Then violets, pansies, chrysanthemums, dandelions and so on were introduced. Nuyin said: "Among them, tricolor violets and violets are most favored by customers and chefs because of their colorful colors and first-class colors and flavors." Now, Paradise Farm has customers all over the United States. Today, restaurants that make a lot of money with flower meals are not only in California. The ace dish of a luxury restaurant in Danas is "Pickled Roses", and a famous restaurant in Philadelphia has become more famous since it launched "Hibiscus Juice Ice Water".
(3) Flower dietotherapy
Yinhua Lianzi Decoction. 31 grams of honeysuckle and 51 grams of lotus seeds (without core removal). Boil the honeysuckle, remove the residue and cook the lotus seeds. Add some sugar when eating. It can clear away heat and toxic materials, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. Any diarrhea and dysentery caused by heat toxin disturbing the large intestine, which is urgent in the interior and then heavy with fever, anal burning and fire annoyance, can be used as supplementary food.
Chinese rose soup (Compendium of Materia Medica, < Quanzhou Materia Medica >): Take three and five failed Chinese rose flowers, wash them, add 2 cups of water, fry them to L cups with slow fire, and add 31 grams of rock sugar to dry and warm them. Treat amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea and traumatic swelling and pain.
Jasmine drink: 5 grams of jasmine, 21 grams of sugar, slightly boiled flowers and sugar with water, and dregs are removed for drinking. Or brew with boiling water. It can treat chest and rib pain caused by stagnation of liver qi.
Jasmine tremella soup: 25g tremella and 21 jasmine flowers. Put clear soup in the pot, add tremella, cooking wine, salt and monosodium glutamate, boil and sprinkle with jasmine. It has a good therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, dry cough due to lung explosion, blood in sputum, gastrointestinal fever, constipation and bleeding, senile bronchitis, dizziness, chronic pharyngitis, irregular menstruation, hemoptysis due to tidal blood of tuberculosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension. It is the best tonic for neurasthenia and weakness after illness.
Sweet-scented osmanthus chestnut paste with glutinous rice: 251g chestnuts, 51g glutinous rice, some sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus. Boil chestnuts in water, crisp them, shell them and press them into mud, cook glutinous rice into porridge, add chestnut mud and white sugar, cook them slightly, and remove sweet osmanthus. Benefiting kidney qi, treating kidney deficiency, dysuria, frequent micturition, dysuria and other symptoms in the elderly.
Sweet-scented osmanthus porridge: 51 grams of sweet potato, 25 grams of japonica rice, and several sweet-scented osmanthus. Steam the sweet potato in water, peel it and grind it into mud, add the rice porridge and white sugar, then boil it, and remove the sugar. Can be used as nutritional food for children.
lotus porridge: collect its petals, dry them and grind them into powder for later use. Cook porridge with 111 grams of stem rice, wait until the porridge is cooked into 11 grams to 15 grams of lotus powder, and cook until it opens. It can clear away summer heat, disperse blood stasis and lose weight. It is also a bodybuilding medicine for calming the heart and benefiting qi and staying in the forehead.
Plum-blossom porridge: First, cook two stalks for porridge. When the porridge is finished, add 5g of Bai Meihua and boil for two times. Generally, the course of treatment is from 5th to 7th. Cooking porridge with plum blossoms can treat mental fatigue, pharyngitis, anorexia and sore poison. Taking it for a long time can strengthen the body. It can soothe the liver and regulate qi, strengthen the spleen, and relieve chest tightness.
chrysanthemum porridge: flowers are picked and pedicled before first frost in autumn, dried in the sun and ground into fine powder. Cook porridge with 111 grams of stem rice, and when it is ready, add 11 grams to 115 grams of chrysanthemum powder, and then cook it for one or two minutes. It can lower blood pressure, dilate coronary artery, increase coronary blood volume, slow down heart rate and strengthen myocardial contraction.
bean curd porridge: take bean curd which is not fully opened from July to August every year, and dry it with selenium. Cook porridge with 111 grams of stem rice. When the porridge is ready, add 11 grams to 15 grams of flat bean curd, and then cook for one or two minutes. It can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, stimulate appetite, help digestion, stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen, clear heat and remove dampness.
Peach blossom porridge: 4g of peach blossom (2g of dried product) and 111g of japonica rice. Boil these two things into porridge. It is suitable for constipation caused by gastrointestinal dryness and heat. Take it 1 times every other day, and it will stop immediately, not for a long time.
honey honeysuckle dew: 31g of honeysuckle and 31g of white honey. Decoct Flos Lonicerae in water, remove residue, add honey, and take it three times and four times. It has a good effect on preventing influenza and treating lung dryness and cough. Shuanghua drink: 51 grams of Flos Lonicerae, 51 grams of Flos Chrysanthemi and 511 grams of honey, decoct Flos Lonicerae, Flos Chrysanthemi and Fructus Crataegi in water to make a thick juice, and add honey to eat it. It is not only a cool drink in summer, but also a health drink for fever, cooking thirst, dizziness, sore throat, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, suppurative infection and other diseases in summer.