Garlic moss scientific name garlic shoots, also known as garlic hair, is drawn from the flower stalks of garlic, one of the vegetables, often mistakenly written "garlic moss". Garlic shoots in our country is widely distributed, north and south are planted all over the world, is China's current vegetable refrigeration industry in the largest storage capacity, the longest storage period of one of the vegetable varieties. Garlic shoots is a very good functional health care vegetables, with a variety of nutritional effects. Including flower stem and involucre two parts. Carex is the involucre at the top of the garlic flower stem, containing underdeveloped inflorescences. The outer skin of garlic shoots is rich in fiber.

Nutrition

Garlic shoots are high in nutrients, protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese and other nutrients needed by the body. As well as allicin, allicin and other ingredients.

Nutritional benefits:

Garlic shoots are warm, with warmth and lower qi, fill the deficiency, reconcile the internal organs, as well as with blood circulation, anti-cancer, sterilization effect, abdominal pain, diarrhea has a certain effect.

Bactericidal effect

Garlic shoots contain chorine, its bactericidal ability can reach one-tenth of penicillin, pathogenic bacteria and parasites have a good killing effect, can play a role in preventing influenza, preventing wound infections and the efficacy of insect repellent.

Allicin and allicin contained in garlic shoots can inhibit the growth and reproduction of bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, dysentery bacillus, E. coli, Vibrio cholerae and so on.

Anti hemorrhoidal laxative

The outer skin of garlic shoots is rich in fiber, which can stimulate bowel movement and regulate constipation. Eat more garlic shoots, can prevent the occurrence of hemorrhoids, reduce the number of recurrence of hemorrhoids, and light to moderate hemorrhoids have a certain therapeutic effect.

Prevention of coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, lipid-lowering and other effects

Garlic shoots are rich in vitamin C has a significant role in lowering blood lipids and preventing coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis, and can prevent the formation of blood clots. It can protect the liver, induce hepatocyte detoxification enzyme activity, can block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens, thus preventing the occurrence of cancer.

Eat with

1, garlic scapes with lettuce.

The two eaten together can be antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering, educational and brain-boosting, preventing bleeding gums, cleaning up internal heat, as well as replenishing vitamin C deficiency.

2, garlic shoots with fungus.

Garlic shoots for the weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, toxins and edema and other diseases have an auxiliary therapeutic effect; fungus is beneficial to fertilization, cool blood to stop bleeding, fat loss. The two eat together, its effect greatly increased.

Precautions

1, garlic shoots are mainly used for fried food, or do ingredients. It is not advisable to cook too bad, so as not to destroy the chorine, sterilization effect is reduced.

2, poor digestion is best to eat less garlic shoots; excessive consumption of garlic shoots may affect vision; garlic shoots have a role in protecting the liver, but too much consumption is instead of damage to the liver, may cause liver dysfunction, so that liver disease aggravation.

3, garlic shoots and rhubarb, He Shouwu, honey and green onions should not be eaten together.