Green dumplings is a famous snack in Jiangsu, usually eaten during the Qingming Festival, because of its shape is round, the color is all green, epitomized by the name of green dumplings! So late green dumplings have any benefits? Take a look below!
What are the benefits of late green dumplings
Speaking of the benefits of late green dumplings, it is important to understand the ingredients of late green dumplings, glutinous rice and mugwort are the main ingredients of late green dumplings!
Mugwort has a high nutritional value, containing vitamins and calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and other mineral elements, and its nature of cool, heat detoxification, with cool, calm liver fire, dispel dampness, anti-inflammatory, antitussive effect. It has a unique flavor due to the presence of siberian rosmarinone and essential oils. The anticancer trace element selenium is recognized as anticancer plant aloe vera 10 times. In addition, it has a good therapeutic effect on lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, alleviating cardiovascular disease, is a typical health care vegetable.
And glutinous rice is also a lot of benefits, glutinous rice taste sweet, warm, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian. It has the effect of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, fixing the table to stop sweating, stopping diarrhea, restoring the fetus, detoxifying and healing sores. Glutinous rice can play, can be used for cold stomach pain, gastric and duodenal ulcers, thirst and polyuria, qi deficiency sweating, acne rash carbuncle disease and other effects.
Glutinous rice is a mild tonic, has a deficiency, blood, spleen and stomach warming, stop sweating and so on. Apply to the cold spleen and stomach due to regurgitation, reduced appetite, diarrhea and gas deficiency caused by sweating, shortness of breath, pregnancy and abdominal distension. Modern scientific research shows that: glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and starch, etc., for warm and strong products. The starch contained in it is branched-chain starch, so it is difficult to digest and hydrolyze in the stomach and intestines. Available glutinous rice, Cortex Eucommiae, Astragalus, Chinese wolfberry, angelica, etc. brewed into "Cortex Eucommiae glutinous rice wine", drinking it has a strong gas refreshing, beauty and longevity, the efficacy of tendon and blood. There is also a "asparagus glutinous rice wine", is made of asparagus, ginseng, etc. with glutinous rice, have a tonic brain, hair care and eyesight, blood circulation, prolonging the role of life. Glutinous rice not only with drugs brewing, and can be brewed with fruit.
Warm tips:The green dumplings are made of mugwort and glutinous rice, so glutinous rice and mugwort nutrition can be well absorbed, but we do not usually eat too much green dumplings, because glutinous rice is not easy to digest, so we need to determine according to their own digestive situation, do not eat.
Four notes when eating green dumplingsFirst, be sure to heat it first before eating. Because the glutinous rice in the green dumplings after cooling is easy to rebirth, very unfavorable to digestion, and the nutrient structure will be destroyed;
Second, it is best to eat with bamboo shoots or Malan head, these foods can be eaten together to speed up the digestion of the green dumplings and nutrients absorbed;
Third, do not eat with the fat meat, glutinous rice, such a difficult to digest food, if mixed with grease will aggravate the intestinal burden, very easy to cause indigestion!
Fourth, it is best to eat some foods that help digestion, such as hawthorn, etc. Because these foods can reduce the gastrointestinal tract, it is easy to cause indigestion. Because these foods can reduce the digestive burden of the gastrointestinal tract to digest glutinous rice food such as green dough, which is conducive to the absorption of green dough in the body.