Because of its rich nutrition, okra is known as the "king of vegetables". Okra flower taste crispy, containing pectin and polysaccharide and other viscous substances, okra mucus can reduce the absorption of sugar, but also to help digestion, often eat a healthy stomach and yin, yin effect. Okra flowers can be fried, you can also do soup, in recent years by people's favorite.

History of okra

According to reports, okra is native to Africa and was introduced from India to grow in our country, but strangely enough, it was almost impossible to find it on the market until 2010, and then it gradually became widely known and quickly developed into a net red vegetable. To this day, you can almost see the figure of okra in the vegetable markets and restaurants of major cities in the south, and okra has become a daily vegetable for many people.

In the last decade or so, okra has just emerged in our country, but in foreign countries, especially in Japan, South Korea, the United States, India, Egypt and other countries, okra has become a more common vegetable, in 1982, Japan's production was as high as 12,300 tons, because, okra is one of the best green food in their minds. Okra is an important vegetable widely grown in African, European and Southeast Asian countries.

Is okra not popular in rural areas?

A okra can be eaten as a vegetable, can be made into soup, and is nutritious, is a great tonic. Fresh things everyone will be interested in, so your family planted, his family planted, and finally, basically every family planted okra, everyone a kind of out, this is too hard to eat it, this is also the king of vegetables? Sticky and slippery taste is very bad, not delicious that used to make soup can always it, but okra is sexually cold, many people dare not drink more.

The rural areas are more practical, not as elaborate as the city people. Regardless of how rich in nutrients okra is, how precious it is to eat, they just say good is not good, if it is not good, it will not plant again, after all, land and human resources are still relatively scarce, so, after planting a round, many people have given up planting okra.

Nutritional value of okra

According to expert analysis: In addition to polysaccharides, okra also contains many other nutrients, especially vitamin C as a representative of vitamin-like substances. In every 100 grams of young okra fruits, the content of vitamin C is 21.1 mg, the content of vitamin B1 (thiamine) is 0.2 mg, and the content of vitamin E is 0.36 mg. Although many people cannot accept the taste of okra, it is an excellent nutritious vegetable, and for health-conscious people, it is always nutrition first and taste second.

Written in the end:

Its high nutritional value, is one of the excellent health vegetables, its taste strange, love to eat the people love to eat, do not love to eat the people avoid, and the city people now also attaches great importance to health, therefore, okra planting is still very marketable. Rural areas are different, people grow vegetables are mostly for the sake of fruit and stomach, the importance of health care is also less, rural vegetables and fruits are extremely rich, and there are many wild vegetables, its nutrition is not worse than okra, the taste is far better than okra, which is why most of the rural people can't accept the reason of okra.