Portulaca oleracea, also known as melon seeds, sauerkraut and horsetongue vegetables, is also known as hemp rope vegetables and grasshopper vegetables in old Beijing.
Cool and crisp, delicious, it is a delicious and nutritious wild vegetable. However, the Health Bureau suggested that leafy vegetables should not be picked casually in the wild to prevent toxic wild vegetables from being picked by mistake.
First of all, we can confirm that purslane is a good thing. In rural areas, old people often say that eating this wild vegetable can prolong life, but the cook doesn't know whether it can prolong life. However, science has proved that it does have certain medical functions, such as clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxicating, reducing swelling, lowering blood pressure, preventing cancer and heart disease, which has beauty beauty effect on girls.
1, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antibacterial
Studies have shown that Portulaca oleracea extract has anti-inflammatory, detumescence and analgesic effects. Especially for Shigella and Escherichia coli. However, the effect intensity on Shigella dysenteriae is slightly lower than that of compound sulfamethoxazole, berberine, norfloxacin and other drugs, but it is superior to other antibiotics in drug resistance.
2. Reduce blood lipid and blood sugar
There is a kind of purslane polysaccharide in purslane. Experiments show that this substance can improve the serum insulin level and reduce fasting blood glucose in alloxan diabetic mice, and has a strong lipid-regulating effect.
3. Anti-tumor
Experiments show that Portulaca oleracea polysaccharide can increase the number of T lymphocytes in mice and inhibit the proliferation of liver cancer cells in vitro. It can obviously inhibit the growth of transplanted tumor in mice.
4, anti-oxidation, anti-aging
Phenolic extract from Portulaca oleracea L. has strong antioxidant activity, can effectively scavenge oxygen free radicals, and its reducing ability to iron ions is obviously higher than that of synthetic antioxidants, so it is expected to become a natural antioxidant.
Portulaca oleracea is not only rich in protein, but also rich in VC and VE, which is higher than that of ordinary vegetables. The carotene content is as high as 42mg/kg, which is 10 times higher than that of Chinese chives. Because of its rich nutrition, purslane was included in the menu of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
How to eat dried horse teeth?
1. Steamed meat to eat
Soak dried purslane in clear water for a day or two, then cut it into small pieces for later use, then chop the meat into large pieces for later use, then prepare some ingredients, such as chopped green onion and ginger slices, and finally add horse teeth when the meat is fried seven or eight times.
Make steamed buns
It is also good to make dried purslane into steamed buns or dumplings, but because purslane likes oil, it is best to put purslane and meat together to make stuffing. The method is: soak dried purslane in advance, chop it with meat, and mix.
Stir fry and eat
The easiest way is to fry purslane directly. Similarly, you need to soak the purslane first, wash it, add a small amount of meat slices and cook it. It usually takes 5-6 minutes to cook.
skill
1, pregnant women, menstrual period and lactating women are not allowed to eat purslane.
2, spleen deficiency, stomach cold, gastrointestinal discomfort should not eat purslane.
3. Don't eat Chili purslane.
4. If you are taking Chinese medicine and there is turtle shell in the prescription, you should pay attention to purslane and turtle shell, and don't eat them together.
5, people with diarrhea caused by cold in the abdomen, if it is general diarrhea caused by cold alone, don't eat it by mistake.
6. Portulaca oleracea is also divided into true and false, please pay attention.