There are no contraindications to the food combination of lily, but there are contraindications to the consumption of lily, such as cold and wind-cold coughing people avoid eating, spleen and stomach cold, diarrhea and loose stools people avoid eating lily.

The lily has a high nutritional value, containing 21.29% protein, 12.43% fat, 11.47% reducing sugar, starch 1.61% per 100 grams of 1.443 mg of vitamin B, 21.2 mg of vitamin C.

The lily of the edible methods are many, can be made into a meal, can be fried, fried, burned, steamed, boiled, and can be made of more than 30 kinds of high and middle grade. Delicacies, the most expensive of which are lily snow lotus, candied lily, sugar water lily and other dishes. Tang Dynasty traditional snack lilies fascinated how many diners, the rich and powerful will also be used as a high-level gifts to the court.

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Picking Lily Precautions

During the processing of dried lilies, the slices of lilies may be blackened if the steaming part of the process is not handled properly. Some traders will use sulfur to bleach the blackened lilies in order to solve this problem.

You can simply identify whether a lily has been bleached with sulfur by "smelling, looking and tasting". Sulfur-bleached lilies will have a pungent odor and will not look uniform in color. In addition, in order to speed up the bleaching process, some people use acid as an additive during processing. This type of lily will feel a distinct sour flavor when licked with the tongue.

Fresh lilies should be selected from those that are large, even-fleshed, thick-fleshed and white or yellowish in color. Selection should also pay attention to remove impurities, black petals, rotten heart or mold. Dried lilies should be selected dry, no impurities, thick meat, crystal clear is preferred.

Edible lilies to domestic species, taste not bitter, scale broad and thin as the best. The medicinal lily is wild, more bitter flavor, small and thick flaps are better. The market has the same family of plants in the northeast of the lily pretending to be medicinal lilies, eat to distinguish between the real and the fake.

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