Sugar cane, also known as sugar cane, dry cane, etc., rich in sugar, water, protein, organic acids, calcium, iron, a variety of amino acids, malic acid, citric acid, oxalic acid, and a variety of vitamins. It has the effect of clearing away heat and removing toxins, generating fluids to quench thirst, and stomach to stop vomiting, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, etc.

Vegetable and Fruit File

Alias: Potato Cane, Sugar Cane

Family: Gramineae

Flowering and Fruiting: Autumn

Nutritional Composition: Minerals, Vitamins, etc.

Taste: The taste is very good.

Sexual flavor and attribution: cool and cold, sweet taste, into the lungs, stomach, large intestine meridian.

Health benefits of sugarcane

Nourishing Yin and moistening dryness: It has the effect of clearing heat, generating fluids and quenching thirst, so it can nourish Yin and moisten dryness.

Anti-cancer: Sugarcane leaves contain polysaccharides, which can inhibit cancer.

Cleaning the mouth: Sugarcane is the "cleaner" of the mouth. Because of its high fiber content. In the repeated chewing, like brushing with a toothbrush, the residue in the mouth and teeth in the dirt a clean, which can improve the teeth's self-cleaning and anti-caries ability.

How to choose sugar cane

In general, you can choose a relatively medium thickness of sugar cane, too thin can not be selected, too thick is not fast negotiation selection; second, the choice of purple skinned sugar cane, it is best to choose the skin glossy, white frost, while the deeper the color indicates that the sugar cane is more sweet; third, we must look at the sugar cane is not straight, the sugar cane curved to bend around the mouth of the insect may have; fourth, to choose the less knot head and uniform sugar cane, so that eat more refreshing. The first is to choose a sugar cane with fewer and more uniform knuckles, so that it is more refreshing to eat.

How to eat the most nutritious

Sugarcane juice to drink the most nutritious, conducive to the absorption of glucose, sucrose and other nutrients.

Vegetables and fruits

The recipe for bronchitis, tuberculosis, sugar cane, white wicker, each appropriate amount, together with the decoction to take the juice, often drink can be.

Suitable for people: suitable for people with fever.

Unsuitable for people: sugar cane is cold, so it is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, abdominal cold pain.

Suitable with: sugar cane and round-grained rice together, have the effect of nourishing Yin moist dryness, clearing heat and generating fluids, quenching thirst and laxative.

Unsuitable with: sugar cane and wine should not be eaten together, the two eaten together easy to produce phlegm.

Suggestions before eating

The surface with "dead color" of the sugar cane, cut, the section was yellow or liver color, smelled moldy, a bite with sour, lees taste of sugar cane should not be eaten, so as not to cause mold poisoning.

How to store the most fresh

not peeled sugar cane, you can put it in a cool, dry place to store; peeled sugar cane, you can put into a plastic bag sealed and put into the refrigerator to store, but the time should not be too long.

Food Links

1, Sugar cane sorghum porridge

Ingredients: sugar cane pulp 500 grams, sorghum rice 150 grams.

Methods:

(1) Soak sorghum rice in warm boiled water, wash it with water and leave it.

(2) the cooking pot brush clean, add the appropriate amount of water, net on a high flame to boil, pour into the sorghum rice, pot with a lid, with a small fire to cook into a porridge, add sugar cane syrup mix, cook for a few moments, can be eaten.

Functions: nourishes Yin and moistens dryness.

2, sugar cane shrimp

Ingredients: 300 grams of shrimp, 150 grams of sugar cane, noodles 1 packet of flour to the right amount, 2 tbsp of sweet noodle sauce, 2 tbsp of peanut butter, 2 tbsp of fish sauce, a little minced chili pepper, crushed peanuts; 1 tbsp of rice, 1/3 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of minced garlic, 1/3 tsp of pepper.

Directions:

(1) Peel the skin off the sugarcane, cut it into long segments, and then cut each segment lengthwise with 2 knives.

(2) Remove the shells and intestines of the shrimp, marinate with a little salt: a few moments and then rinse and drain.

(3) Puree the shrimp and all the seasonings in a blender. If you don't have a blender, you can chop the shrimp with a kitchen knife and mix with the ingredients.

(4) Wrap the shrimp puree in sugar cane segments, leaving 2 centimeters at the end and beginning of each segment.

(5) hot frying pan, and made sugar cane shrimp coated with breadcrumbs, and then put into the frying pan until crispy and golden, you can pick up and drain the oil, put into the dish.

Functions: nourishes Yin and moistens dryness.