Cortex Moutan is sweet and sour, which helps digestion, especially for children. Contains a variety of vitamins, tartaric acid, citric acid, maslinic acid, malic acid, etc., and also contains brass, lactone, sugar, protein, fat and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. The lipolytic enzyme contained in it can promote the digestion of fatty foods.

The benefits of eating Cortex Moutan:

1, promoting the secretion of gastric juice and increasing the enzymes in the stomach. Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn has the effects of eliminating stagnation, astringing and stopping dysentery, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. Indications are food stagnation, chest fullness, hernia and blood stasis amenorrhea.

2. It contains triterpenes, brass and other pharmaceutical ingredients, which has obvious vasodilating and antihypertensive effects, and has the functions of strengthening myocardium, resisting arrhythmia and regulating blood lipid and cholesterol content.

The practice of cortex moutan:

1. Wash hawthorn, cross-cut it, remove the core, clean the head and roots, wash the apples, peel them and cut them into pieces, and put them into a blender and add a small amount of water to make them paste;

2. Put them together in a small stainless steel pot, add a proper amount of white sugar and crystal sugar and stir them evenly, then put water in the cauldron, put the stainless steel pot filled with fruit puree in the middle of the water, cover the lid, cook the fruit puree in water, and keep stirring in the middle to help the sugar melt.

3. After cooking, the color of the puree will turn red and become more transparent, and then take it out and let it cool a little. At this time, we will coat the bottom of the baking tray with a small amount of peanut oil, corn oil is the best and tasteless, and then evenly spread the cooked puree into the baking tray, with a thickness of 3 mm. It is not good to be too thin or too thick;

4. Then we finish the last step by baking at low temperature. The highest setting of the oven is not more than 150 degrees, and the time is about 2 hours. The first half of the time needs to be placed at the bottom of the oven, and then slowly move up, and finally in the middle layer;

5. After the finished product is cooled, it can be rolled into a wide roll, that is, the cortex moutan, and the narrower one is the hawthorn roll.

Applicable people

Most people can eat it. Children, pregnant women, the elderly and dyspepsia are especially suitable for eating. People with colds, indigestion, loss of appetite, calcium deficiency in children's cartilage and iron deficiency anemia can eat more.