Soak the dried lotus seeds overnight and cook them the next day. Dry lotus seeds can be soaked for one night and cooked the next day, but it is not recommended to soak for about 3 hours in advance. Soaking for too long will easily lose the nutrients of lotus seeds, and lotus seeds will easily become soft and rotten, which will affect the taste. If soaked for too long, the nutritional value will be greatly reduced, so it is not recommended to soak lotus seeds for one night and cook them the next day.

dried lotus seeds are sun-dried lotus seeds. It is used to measure the concentration of sea salt brine. When the brine is sun-dried for the third day, put the light lotus seeds into the brine. If the lotus seeds can float and are even with the brine surface, it is called 5% brine. Put the 5% brine into the fourth pond for a period of time, and then put the heavier lotus seeds into the brine.

if lotus seeds can float and are flush with the brine, it is called 8% brine. If the lotus seeds can float and are flush with the brine, it is called 1% brine.

nutritional value of dried lotus seeds

from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, dried lotus seeds are flat and sweet, and have the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen, calming the nerves, tonifying the kidney and replenishing essence. Proper intake of some dried lotus seeds can effectively improve dizziness and headache caused by deficiency of qi and blood, increase appetite, and have a good auxiliary treatment effect on insomnia and dreaminess.