Mazda cabbage, the scientific name of amaranth for the amaranthaceae annual herbs. Born in the field roadside and courtyard, embankment and other sunny places. All over the country are distributed. This species is a dual-use plant. The whole herb is used for medicine, with the effect of clearing heat and dampness, detoxifying and reducing swelling, anti-inflammatory, thirst-quenching and diuretic; the seeds are good for eyesight. Modern research, amaranth is also rich in SL3 fatty acids and vitamin A-like substances. SL3 fatty acids are essential for the formation of cell membranes, especially brain cell membranes and eye cell membranes; vitamin A-like substances can maintain epithelial tissues, such as the skin, cornea and conjunctiva of the normal function of the skin, to participate in the synthesis of optic chalcogenides, enhance retinal photoreceptors, but also involved in the body's many oxidation processes.

No matter whether it is planted or wild amaranth there are many cooking methods to eat --

1, after picking, wash, boil with boiling water (be careful not to cook) in a sunny place to dry into a dry vegetable, eat with warm water to soak soft, make dumplings, buns and coarse grain vegetable dumplings filling;

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2, can be eaten cold, but also to boil with boiling water, quickly pull cool with ice water, with garlic, chili oil, sesame oil, refined salt, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings in moderation, is a very flavorful cold dishes.

Cool amaranth has a high nutritional value and medicinal value, there is a "natural antibiotic" said;

3, you can cook meat and vegetables porridge to eat, the first to put the right amount of meat onion, ginger and garlic sautéed and then heated water, into the round-grained rice, oats, the right amount of first to cook to eight minutes, and then into the right amount of carrot diced cooked for two minutes, then the last to boil water, the first to cook to the right amount of water, and the last to cook to the right amount of water. Finally, the water boiled cut into 5 millimeters of broken amaranth into, and then put the appropriate amount of refined salt and chicken essence. Amaranth porridge has a very good nourishing effect on the human body, can be very good to improve the color of the skin, so that the skin radiates a healthy glow.

While amaranth as a dietary supplement meal is very good, but friends with bad stomach can not directly eat raw amaranth, slightly acidic and astringent mucus substances will stimulate the stomach, or blanch (boil) with water for a while.