Alias: sweet pepper, mountain pepper, mountain pepper, sweet pepper? Classification: vegetables, wild vegetables? Wild vegetables ranking: 26th? Recipe: 48 in all? Thyme introduction? Thyme is the whole grass of Thyme in Labiatae. Thyme stems are creeping, rooting everywhere, multi-branched, lignified lower part, reddish brown, straight flowers, 3 ~ 15 cm high and strong aromatic smell. Leaves opposite; Small, rectangular or oval, up to 15 mm, 7 mm wide, whole, blunt, with bristles at the base and short handle. Flowers are small, purplish red, clustered at the ends of branches, forming an umbrella-shaped spike: calyx green, calyx tube bell-shaped, apex 5-lobed, throat hairy; Corolla lipped, lower lip 3-lobed; Stamens 4, 2 strong; Pistil 1 nutlet oval, located at the bottom of persistent calyx. The flowering period is from June to July. Growing in dry hillside sand. Distributed in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Northeast China and other places. Every spring and summer, patches of thyme are as green as carpets, pink flowers smell very fragrant, and the wind brings bursts of fragrance. They are harvested in June and July, dried in the shade or used fresh. ? What is the nutritional value of thyme? Thyme contains baicalein, glucoside, luteolin -7- glucoside, apigenin, volatile oil and other flavonoids, which has strong irritation and can denature the liver. ? How is the edible effect of thyme? Warm in the cold? Expelling wind and relieving pain? Thyme is suitable for people? The general population can eat it.