Gardenia in cooking play to tone the color mainly.

Gardenia is the fruit of Gardenia jasminoides. The fruit of gardenia is the traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the Ministry of health promulgated the l batch of medicine and food dual-use resources, has the protection of the liver, gallbladder, lowering blood pressure, sedative, hemostatic, swelling and so on.

Gardenia is the most widely used yellow dye before qin and han, the fruit of gardenia contains ketone substance gardenia yellow pigment, and saffron pigment and so on, the substance used for dyeing yellow is saffron acid.

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Gardenia sex like warm and humid climate, good sunshine but can't undergo strong sunshine irradiation, suitable to grow in loose, Fertile, well-drained, light viscous acidic soil, strong resistance to harmful gases, strong sprouting power, resistant to pruning. It is a typical acidic flower.

Produced in shandong, henan, jiangsu, anhui, zhejiang, jiangxi, fujian, taiwan, hubei, hunan, guangdong, hong kong, guangxi, hainan, sichuan, guizhou and yunnan, hebei, shaanxi and gansu have cultivation, among them, gardenia in tanghe county, henan province obtains "the national origin geographic indication authentication", for the national biggest Gardenia production base, has "Chinese gardenia hometown" reputation.

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