Saponia rice is a material used to make food.

Saponaria rice is the fruit of the deciduous tree of the family Fabaceae. The branches of this plant are spiny and cylindrical; the leaflets are ovate-lanceolate or oblong; the flowers are mixed, yellow and white; the pods are band-shaped, thick and straight, with swollen sides; the fruit petals are leathery, brown or reddish brown, often Covered by white powdery frost, with many seeds.

It usually blooms in May and matures in October to November. Mature saponin rice has plump grains and is naturally light yellow. Because its shape resembles rice, it is named "Saponia rice".

Saponaria rice is native to China's Yunnan and Guizhou areas, and is also distributed in small amounts in Sichuan and parts of southern China. It likes light and is slightly tolerant of shade. It likes a warm and humid climate and deep, fertile and moderately moist soil, but it is harmful to the soil. The requirements are not strict, and it can grow normally in calcareous, saline-alkali and even clay or sandy soil. Honey locust grows slowly but has a long lifespan, up to six to seven hundred years.

How to eat saponin rice

1. Cook porridge: take an appropriate amount of saponin kernels, wash them out, soak them in warm water for 2 to 3 hours, and then mix with your favorite food. For example: glutinous rice, peanuts, jujubes, barley, lotus seeds, mung beans, etc., boil together into gruel, add sugar and eat.

2. Stew: 5g sapodilla kernels per person, wash out, soak in warm water for 2 to 3 hours, put the juice into a plate, stew in the pot, then add 2 to 3 times the amount Drink cold water, add sugar and honey.

3. Cook chicken soup or spareribs soup: 10 to 15g saponin seeds can be added to each chicken, wash them out, cook them directly with the chicken or spareribs, and add edible salt for consumption, which can make the maternal milk flow smoothly. .

4. Boil chicken liver or pork liver: Cook 10g of saponin kernels per kilogram of liver, add salt and eat. It can clear the liver and improve eyesight.

5. You can make drinks in a thermos pot: take 15 to 20g saponin seeds, wash them out, put them into an eight-pound thermos pot, pour in freshly boiled water, and add sugar after 6 hours.