Osmanthus varieties

There are four main varieties of osmanthus, including golden osmanthus, silver osmanthus, danggui, and four seasons osmanthus, of which golden osmanthus and silver osmanthus can be eaten, and also have the strongest aroma and the best edible flavor.

Sugar osmanthus

Sugar osmanthus practice has two kinds: the first is the first osmanthus on the stalks excision, leaving only the osmanthus petals, and then in the warm water to fish a little bit (a few seconds can be), refrigeration, after the use of gauze to squeeze the water dry, and then sugar (you can also use honey) to 1:10 ratio of the proportion of the mix into a sealed jar, put a month can be made of sugar osmanthus. A month can be made of sugar cinnamon; the second way is first fresh cinnamon with salt (a little can be) slightly pickled, and then put into the container, and then according to the number of 1:1 a layer of cinnamon layer of sugar sealed pickled for a week, can be made. Sugar cinnamon made in these two ways can be stored for more than 3 years in a lower temperature environment.

Salted Osmanthus

500 grams of osmanthus, plus salt, 125 grams of Ming Kung and 500 mL of cool white water, a little stir. Sealed in the bottle, can be stored for a long time. This method can make osmanthus color and beauty will not change when you use it, and then wash it with cool water. With the above production and processing of fresh osmanthus products, generally can be immediately mixed with a variety of desserts and snacks to eat. Such as sweet rice wine, eight treasures of rice, lotus heart porridge, red bean paste soup dumplings and other snacks with a small amount, that is, the fragrance and aroma of the nose, so that people's appetites increased.

Osmanthus tea

Osmanthus, in addition to its symbolic meaning and as an ornamental, can also be made into a flower tea, extracted from the aroma of alcohol and manufacture of sugar cubes, snacks and other materials. Tea with fresh osmanthus flowers after celling, not only without losing the block flavor of tea, but also with a strong osmanthus flavor, very suitable for the function of the poorer elderly to eat.

Groups that should not consume osmanthus

People whose bodies are hot try not to drink osmanthus. Because osmanthus is warm, if the internal fire of the patient took osmanthus, then the body of the fire will greatly increase, is not conducive to the health of the body.

But if your body has a toothache, stomach pain, oral odor and chronic bronchitis, you can make tea with osmanthus flowers.

Purchase of osmanthus

General purchase of osmanthus should be placed on the nose to smell, if the odor is heavy, moldy or mildewy conditions should not be consumed. In addition, osmanthus corolla disintegration to the case of basal milk color changes, usually orange, yellowish or white, life should learn to distinguish.

Storage of osmanthus

Many people buy osmanthus after a period of time will find that the aroma will be weakened at the same time the effect will also be reduced, why is this? This is mainly because the storage of such flowers in life is not the right way, sealing work is not done. It is proposed to harvest the next osmanthus in life after removing the color after drying, and then sealed storage, must be placed in a ventilated dry location.