Toon sprout is not toxic.

But inside the nitrite or nitrate composition than other vegetables are high, especially in the old leaves, eat when you can use boiling water to boil, can reduce the inside of the undesirable components, with boiling water is about a minute, the time can not be too long, to preserve the tender green color of toon sprouts.

Toon buds, China's long history of eating toon buds, also known as "tree vegetables", this unique flavor of the food, not only has a rich nutritional value, but also high medicinal value. Every 100 grams of toon sprout, containing 9.8 grams of protein, 143 mg of calcium, 115 mg of vitamin C, these substances are higher than many seasonal vegetables.

When you eat it, you can choose to make soup or stir-fry with eggs, which can make the food more nutritious, but you need to choose fresh and relatively tender toon buds, try not to choose the old toon leaves.

The propagation method of toon sprout:

The propagation method is generally seed propagation, cuttings propagation, lateral root propagation and root tiller propagation. Toon buds like temperature, suitable for cultivation in the area of the average annual temperature of 8 ℃ ~ 10 ℃, cold resistance with the increase in age and improve. Seed direct seeding of annual seedlings at -10 ℃ or so may be frozen. Light-loving, more tolerant of moisture, more growth in the river, roadside or around the mansion in fertile and moist sandy loam soil, suitable soil pH pH 5.5 ~ 8.0, poor resistance to pollution.

Reproduction by seed and root tiller. Sow seeds in spring when the ground temperature of 10 centimeters is 5℃. Seeds have a layer of waxy outer skin, water absorption difficulties, soaked in warm water for 24 hours before sowing, and then in a warm place to germinate (or mixed with wet sand), the embryonic roots are exposed after sowing seedlings. Row spacing 20 ~ 30 cm, mulch 3 ~ 4 cm, the amount of seed used per mu seedbed is 3 ~ 4 kg.