Ham has high nutritional value and contains 18 kinds of amino acids, 8 of which cannot be synthesized by the human body. Jinhua ham has always been used as a delicacy, gifts, nourishing the body is not to say, it is said to be able to get rid of the disease, for generations of doctors pay attention to.

According to the Qing Dynasty Zhao Xuemin compiled "Gleanings from the Compendium of Materia Medica" records: Jinhua ham is beneficial to the kidneys, nourish the stomach, raw fluid, yang, solid bone marrow, healthy foot power function, its Chen bone and claws, can eliminate food accumulation [stop vomiting and diarrhea, used to treat the rodent bites and ringworm, etc. have a certain degree of efficacy.

"Gleanings from the Materia Medica" also detailed description of typical cases of treatment of various diseases: "long diarrhea. Chen ham foot claw a, white water boiled for a day, so very rotten, even soup a meal, even if the cure. Gold is three services. This Yu Zongren Baiyun tried repeatedly effective formula also." "abdominal pain, or three, four days more than, Pen Yuan Xiantan ham meat decoction, into the real Sichuan pepper within, skimmed off the floating oil above, drink the soup on the heat, healed. Tired test."

In China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, traditionally have the habit of eating ham, especially the sick and weak people, women after childbirth, and more taboos, eat some ham, appetizing and beneficial to the spleen, easy to digest, both nourishing, but also to add the blessing of the mouth, so the Jinhua ham is famous at home and abroad, the reputation is full of the world it is not surprising. Ham production through the winter and summer, after the fermentation decomposition, a variety of nutrients are more easily absorbed by the body, with a stomach, kidney, yang, solid bone marrow, healthy feet, heal the role of wounds, and so on. Carbohydrate 4.90 (g) Vitamin B2 0.09 (mg) Potassium 220.00 (mg) Cholesterol 120 (mg) Vitamin B6 0.08 (mg) Copper 0.08 (mg) Fat 27.40 (g) Iron 2.20 (mg) Sodium 1086.70 (mg) Protein 16.00 (g) Vitamin E 0.80 (mg) Manganese 0.04 (mg) ) Folic acid 27.20 (mcg) Calcium 3.00 (mg) Phosphorus 90.00 (mg) Niacin 8.60 (mg) ? ? ? ?