Hairy fern can be eaten.

Fern with white hairs on it is normal and edible, wash it with water and it will fall off. Fern is a kind of wild vegetables, the plant can be up to 1 meter high. The rhizome is long and horizontal, densely covered with rusty yellow pilose. The newborn leaves in the spring are curly and the petiole has white downy hairs. The common leaf shape is broadly triangular or oblong-triangular.

Widely distributed in the mountains and fields all over China. Spring picking young stems and leaves, washed and slightly boiled, to remove the astringent flavor with, or sun-dried, before the use of boiling water or boiled, bleached to remove the astringent flavor, known as the king of mountain vegetables, but also an unparalleled delicacy of wild vegetables. Fern can be eaten fresh, but it is more difficult to keep fresh, so the market is common in its pickled or dried products, taste better, suitable for wild food.

Eating hairy fern notes:

Eating fern taboo can not be eaten raw, can not eat too much at one time, do not eat too old fern, fern generally need to be soaked in alkaline water, and then blanch in hot water and then cleaned, through some of this operation can reduce the fern inside the original fern glycoside content, the texture will become better, the fern is generally used for cold taste. The fern is generally used for cold taste is relatively good, but do not eat too much at once.

The oldest ferns have a poorer taste, so don't eat the oldest ferns. The ferns will be washed and drained, put into the altar, each placed a layer of ferns sprinkled into the appropriate amount of salt and ginger and other marinade, marinade well after the altar seal, generally about ten days can be taken out of the cooking to eat. Or will pick under the fern clean, with boiling water to cook for about ten minutes, and then fish out and spread out to dry.