Friends who have traveled to India know that there are many weird ways to eat in India. When I was watching videos, I came across a video called Betel Leaf on Fire, which is to smear betel leaves with some curry,

Tomato sauce and other condiments are put into your mouth after lighting the fire, as you can see in the video.

When I was a kid, I saw acrobatic performers breathing fire, but I’ve never seen anyone put fire in their mouth.

I really want to ask, what does this betel leaf taste like when eaten?

In China, there are also many edible leaves. Friends who grew up in rural areas must have eaten some of them. Today, let’s talk about these edible leaves. Have you ever eaten them?

1. Tea seed slices Tea seed slices Tea seed slices are white on the back and bluish on the front. Some have gray coating and some have brown spots.

Before maturity, green is mixed with red.

Pick a piece, remove the skin, and put it in your mouth. It is less sweet and more sour, and the taste is green and astringent.

Friends who grow tea in the south may have tasted it. 8090 It’s a memory from my childhood.

2. Toona toona sinensis leaves are now more and more regarded as vegetables. There will be a lot of them on supermarket shelves every spring. They are more abundant in the north. They are rare and expensive, so the price is not so affordable, but in the north

In rural areas, people usually pick some of the buds of this kind of tree to pickle or stir-fry and eat it during the Spring Festival. Usually it is just an ordinary tree.

3. Mulberry leaves: Silkworm babies eat mulberry leaves. We all know this when we were in primary school. In fact, mulberry leaves also have very rich nutritional value. They can be eaten cold, squeezed out to make noodles, stuffed dumplings, and made into mulberry leaf tea.

, don't look at the mulberry leaves that feed silkworm babies so fat, in fact, this is the new favorite of people who want to lose weight.

4. Grape leaves. When buying grapes in the summer, you will occasionally come across grapes with grape leaves. Some people will take them away directly, and some people will pick off the leaves. In fact, these leaves are also edible. My grandma grew them in the yard when I was a child.

Before the grapes are ripe, the leaves can be fried or eaten cold. Have you ever eaten leaves like this?

5. Wolfberry leaves. Some people have drank wolfberry, but they must have never seen wolfberry leaves, right?

In fact, wolfberry leaves can also be used as medicinal materials!

It is made from the dried leaves of wolfberry leaves. It is said to be widely used in making tea. Have you ever drank it?

6. Zanthoxylum bungeanum leaves Zanthoxylum bungeanum leaves are the shoots of Zanthoxylum bungeanum. Here’s how to eat them; the shoots are used to make cold dishes and have a refreshing and appetizing taste.

The mature leaves are mixed into batter and baked into pancakes or used to make salty soup. The taste is refreshing and fragrant.

7. Willow buds You can see many willow trees by the river, but their young leaves are also edible. Did you know?

In the early days, when there was not much to eat, people survived by eating willow buds, but now not many people eat them, and they are generally regarded as ornamental plants.

8. Sophora japonica trees bloom, and the flowers are edible. They are sweet. When I was a child, I liked to go to the tree to pick them. Every year when the flowers bloom, I can smell the fragrance of the flowers from a distance of 20 meters. But the leaves of the Sophora japonica trees can not only be used for

If you come to blow the whistle, you can also eat, you know?

9. Yuqian is such a familiar type of Yuqian. Everyone has eaten it, right?

This way of eating is simpler, just pop it into your mouth. It's very sweet. I ate a handful when I was a kid. If I didn't eat when I came home from school, my mother would know that I was eating Yuqian secretly.

This stuff is very filling and somewhat difficult to digest.

10. Everyone knows that Tianqi is a good thing. In addition to being a medicinal material, it can also be used as a condiment in dishes.

But have you seen its leaves, friends from the north?

Yes, this thing is often grown in the southwest, such as Guizhou and Yunnan. I have never seen it before, only the roots and not the leaves.