Lotus seed is a very nutritious food. Not only can it be eaten fresh and dried, but it also has many uses, such as cooking porridge, making soup, making tea, etc. But many people feel that lotus seed is bitter when eating boiled lotus seeds. What is the reason? Why is the boiled lotus seed bitter?

What's the matter with bitter lotus seeds Generally speaking, eating lotus seeds feels bitter, because you didn't remove the lotus plumule (the turquoise germ in the middle of lotus seeds) in advance.

Lotus plumule tastes bitter and cold. Lotus plumule mainly contains liensinine, isoliensinine, methylliensinine, prenuciferine, nuciferine, Niujiaohuasu, methyl corydaline, demethyllinderaine, luteolin, hyperoside, rutoside and other brass. Among them, pro-nuciferine, cornucopia and methyl corydalis are bitter, so the lotus plumule is bitter, and the mature lotus plumule is more bitter.

Lotus plumule is bitter but has its unique advantages. Lotus plumule is really bitter in taste, but it has a strong cardiotonic effect. Eating it can dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure. In addition, it also has a good effect of clearing away heart fire, stopping bleeding and astringing essence, and is mainly used for treating pericardium, inflammation due to deficiency fire, heart-kidney disharmony, hematemesis due to blood heat, wet dream's diarrhea and so on.

1, plumula Nelumbinis decoction has antihypertensive effect, and its antihypertensive effective components are liensinine and neferine, which has a wide range of antiarrhythmic effects.

2. Lotus plumule combined with cinnabar is used to treat nocturnal emission and insomnia caused by restless heart fire and disharmony between heart and kidney.

3. Lotus plumule with Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, and Semen Platycladi are used to regulate the symptoms of anxiety and insomnia caused by deficiency of heart yin and excessive heart fire.

From a medical point of view, lotus seeds with lotus plumule will have one more effect than hollow lotus plumule, that is, the effect of lotus plumule: clearing heart and removing heat. However, lotus plumule tastes bitter. Therefore, from the point of view of taste, it is bitter, which is not acceptable to most people, so removing the core is more delicious than not removing the core. Middle-aged and elderly people buy, with multiple drug feelings, and choose not to remove the core. Lotus plumule is a good medicine. However, young and middle-aged people buy it with multiple tastes, and most of them will go to the core.