Hawthorn contains high calories, and contains a lot of carotene, calcium, carbohydrates, maslinic acid, pectin and so on. The content of vitamins in hawthorn is extremely high, second only to jujube and kiwi fruit, and the content of carotene and calcium is high. Hawthorn leaves contain flavonoids, which is 20 times of the fruit content.
Hawthorn leaf edible
1 The eating method of hawthorn leaves is relatively simple. After collecting fresh hawthorn leaves, people can use it to decoct in water for drinking, or they can dry it and store it for eating. After decocting and taking out the soup, they can cook porridge with the ingredients they need, so that people can absorb the effective nutrition in hawthorn leaves and make it play a good health care role.
2. Hawthorn leaves can also be made into hawthorn leaf tea for people to soak in water. When necessary, you can put the cured hawthorn leaf tea directly in a clean glass, pour it into boiling water of about 95 degrees, soak it for 3~5 minutes, and then drink the brewed soup directly. To make the brewed soup taste better, you can add a proper amount of crystal sugar to flavor it, which will make the soup brewed by hawthorn leaves taste sweeter.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Hawthorn Leaf,