Amaranth is an annual herb, which likes temperature and heat resistance. Generally, it grows in sunny places with wet soil such as weirs and ditches. Its root system is developed and its ability to adapt to the environment is very strong, but amaranth is afraid of waterlogging, and amaranth can be seen everywhere in rural areas.
(Wild Amaranth growing naturally)
The efficacy of amaranth
Amaranth is rich in vitamins needed by human growth, and the contents of trace elements such as iron and calcium are also higher than many vegetables. Amaranth is also rich in a variety of dietary fiber. Regular consumption of amaranth can promote intestinal digestion, accelerate metabolism and enhance physical fitness. Eating amaranth is known as "longevity vegetable". Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium. Children can eat some amaranth to supplement calcium and help their teeth and bones develop. No, as soon as I picked it back, I immediately blanched it with boiling water, fried a little pepper oil and mixed it with garlic, and a dish of fashionable wild vegetables was served on the table.
(cold garlic and amaranth)
Because amaranth also has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood to stop bleeding and stopping dysentery, eating amaranth can also play the role of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels.
It's the best time to eat amaranth again. Friends, take your tools and pick wild amaranth on the mountain. While enjoying the fun of picking, I also exercised, and there are natural, healthy, green and pollution-free amaranth to take home. Why not?
Amaranth is called Simicai in my hometown. Its leaves are purple and green, which are planted by people, not wild vegetables, but they were all planted for pigs before and no one ate them.
Amaranth bears seeds in purple or light green strips when it is old. Take back the seeds, knead them in the basket, dry them in the sun, and after enough seeds are sown in the next year, stir-fry the rest into rice flowers and boil them with brown sugar to make glutinous rice candy.
Therefore, in the eyes of former rural people, amaranth is pig food, which has no nutritional value and is of little use. Only a few trees are planted on the edge of the ground.
I don't know when amaranth became popular in the city, so rural people near the city planted it on a large scale, and the tender handful cost two to three yuan.
Amaranth tastes good when it is tender. Boil it with boiling water, add salt, pepper and minced garlic, and then choke it with hot oil. The color is light green with red pepper, which gives people an appetite.
Some people say that in June, amaranth is an egg, but in July, the gold of amaranth is not changed. I think amaranth is a seasonal vegetable. In June and July, it is the most tender time of amaranth, so it has no astringency and fiber, so it is the best.
Amaranth also has aliases, such as Yanlaihong, Laolaishao, Tricolor Amaranth, etc. This dish likes warm but not cold, and it is easy to bolt and blossom at high temperature. The temperature in the south is moderate, and it is between 23 and 27 degrees here for a long time.
It is just conducive to the growth of amaranth. In rural areas, large areas are planted as commercial vegetables for sale, so June and July are also the best selling period. In the later period, the roots of amaranth are thick and can be as high as 80 150 cm.
During this time, people don't eat anything except raising seeds and feeding pigs. Although amaranth is the most common dish, it still has its unique function.
Amaranth is cold, which can dispel cold and heat, clear liver, improve eyesight, promote defecation, and have a bad stomach. People in loose stool are not easy to eat more. It's ok to eat once or twice occasionally.
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Amaranth, which we locals call Xi Amaranth, is deeply loved by rural people because of its high nutritional value and its ability to make "Xi Amaranth Cake" and "Xi Amaranth Sugar" after harvest. Therefore, there is a saying that "June Amaranth is an egg and July Amaranth gold is not changed".
"June amaranth as an egg" refers to the fresh eating period of amaranth. There are three kinds of local amaranth, green, purple and color, which are rich in nutrition, regardless of color. The iron and calcium contents are very high, but the amaranth is not noble because of its beauty and health, and it is easy to transplant and survive. Rural people are generally reluctant to plant amaranth in good fields, and all of them are sown or transplanted at the foot of the field and in front of the house, which is the best feed for pigs and poultry in rural areas. So even in the vegetable market, its price is very low.
In line with the season, late spring and early summer are the best time to eat amaranth. During this time, the leaves of Xi Amaranth are fresh and tender, the vegetable body is soft and smooth, and the taste is strong, and the entrance is sweet and fragrant, which has the effect of moistening the stomach and clearing away heat. We often use it for cold salad. The method is to wash the amaranth first, then boil it in boiling water, add some seasonings such as refined salt, mashed garlic, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, or simply put some fermented milk.
Some people will chop up the amaranth and mix it with wheat flour to bake it into cakes, which will taste unique. At the same time, Xi amaranth can also be fried with meat dishes such as shredded pork and eggs, and processed into hot-fried dishes with full color and flavor. For children and old people, the favorite is to mix rice with the soup of red amaranth.
Red amaranth is fried with white garlic, red and white, amaranth is glutinous and garlic is fragrant, and white rice is soaked in red soup, and suddenly becomes purple, which makes people have an intellectual appetite.
"July amaranth gold does not change" refers to the flowering and seed setting period of amaranth. The grain of Xi Amaranth is called Amaranth Valley, which is mainly used to dip sugar as a precious cake for the New Year.
Harvest amaranth grains, dry them in the sun, fry them into bubbles, boil them with sweet sugar, white sugar and lard, then stick them in a movable wooden box while they are hot, open the wooden box after cooling, and cut the amaranth grains into blocks. If any family in the village fried amaranth valley, the whole village was especially fragrant. You can't use a spatula when frying, you use sorghum rinse.
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Although there are abundant plants and trees in summer, seasonal wild vegetables are rare, except purslane, which is this amaranth. The old saying "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not exchanged for gold" generally refers to this wild vegetable. When the leaves are fresh and tender in June of the lunar calendar, the fields are everywhere. By the seventh month of the lunar calendar, amaranth bears seeds, and the taste of leaves drops, so it is difficult to find edible amaranth, which makes it expensive.
Amaranth is an annual herb, and its leaves are covered with soft thorns. After cooking, you can feel a little tingling in your mouth, so amaranth is also called "thorn amaranth". Amaranth is not only a popular seasonal wild vegetable, but also a traditional Chinese medicine. Its medicinal value was originally recorded in the Ming Dynasty's Herbal Medicine of South Yunnan, which can "eliminate insect accumulation, kill white worms, and reduce flatulence." Wash the skin itching and the wind of skin wandering. "
Chinese medicine believes that amaranth is cold, sweet and light, and enters the lung and liver meridians. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, stopping bleeding and cooling blood. It is often used to treat gum bleeding, hemorrhoids, hematochezia, gastrointestinal bleeding, dysuria, goiter, insect and snake bites. Modern pharmacology has a deeper understanding of the functional components of amaranth. For example, the roots of amaranth contain active ingredients such as spinach alcohol, saponins and flavonoids, which have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antimalarial and liver-protecting effects.
In the folk, amaranth root is also used in the treatment of kidney calculi, which has a good effect on removing stones with short residence time and 0. 150px transverse diameter.
There is indeed this saying, especially the older generation will say "June amaranth, put eggs; In July, amaranth, gold does not change "and other folk sayings, it can be seen that people are very aware of its rich nutritional value!
It is understood that the edible history of amaranth has been around for thousands of years! Nowadays, although some of them are picked in the wild, most of them are eaten by artificial cultivation!
Below, some use values of amaranth are briefly discussed for reference only:
First, the edible history of amaranth is very long!
It is understood that the word "amaranth" was found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that amaranth has been eaten by people for thousands of years!
Nowadays, there are many kinds of common amaranth, including red amaranth, green amaranth and colored amaranth.
Second, the medicinal value of amaranth
It is understood that the roots, fruits and whole grass of amaranth can be used as medicine. Generally, it has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, stopping dysentery and preventing constipation. The specific performance is as follows:
1, has the functions of enriching blood and hematopoiesis. Amaranth is rich in iron, which can promote the synthesis of human hemoglobin and effectively improve anemia symptoms. It is very suitable for women to eat after giving birth!
2. It has the effects of detoxifying, losing weight and preventing constipation. Amaranth is also rich in dietary fibres, which can effectively excrete human intestinal garbage, thus preventing constipation and taking advantage of some people's weight loss needs.
3. Promote the development of human bones and teeth. It is very suitable for infants and young children. Especially for infants fed with milk, milk powder and other milk substitutes.
4, can prevent muscle spasm. Amaranth can maintain normal myocardial activity and reduce the occurrence of muscle spasm to some extent.
Third, the edible value of amaranth
Amaranth is very rich in nutrition, containing a lot of lysine, vitamin C, iron, calcium and other ingredients, so it is also called "longevity vegetable". Can be regarded as the best among vegetables. Among them, red amaranth is the best to eat!
Edible people of amaranth: not only infants and teenagers, but also very suitable for anemia patients, women and the elderly.
However, for cold stomach, spleen deficiency, diarrhea and pregnant women should eat as little as possible!
I also planted some in my own small vegetable garden this year. Generally, the amaranth can be cooked cold and delicious! I won't introduce more about its specific edible food!
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Amaranth is the favorite vegetable to eat in summer. We have red amaranth and green amaranth here. Amaranth will fade when fried. Amaranth is not a wild vegetable here, but the vitality of amaranth is relatively tenacious, and these barren places behind the corner can grow. Here, small farmers will talk to you about amaranth.
When I was a child, my favorite food in summer was fried amaranth with garlic, especially with a few dried peppers. Mother also likes to put amaranth into noodles. The red amaranth will fade and the noodle soup will be red. But amaranth is delicious. And amaranth is better to survive. This year, you plant one and let it grow by itself. When it grows to be more than one meter high in autumn, there will be a lot of seeds, and the seeds will be scattered on the ground by themselves. A lot of small amaranths will grow here next year. It can be said that it is very good to plant.
I only ate the leaves of amaranth in the north, and later found that the stems of amaranth can also be eaten. There is a famous dish in the south called "moldy amaranth stalk", which is made of amaranth stalk. It is mainly made by amaranth stalk fermentation, and it tastes very delicious. And one thing that has to be mentioned is that the amaranth stalk marinade soaked in amaranth stalk has a greater effect. When making authentic stinky tofu, the amaranth stalk brine is the most indispensable, and the stinky tofu soaked in the amaranth stalk brine will taste more delicious.
After talking about amaranth leaves, amaranth stalks, amaranth seeds and roots are also very useful. Amaranth seeds also play a great role. Amaranth seeds can supplement protein, improve digestion, prevent heart attacks, hair care and so on. Amaranth seeds are eaten as grains in many places, and they are ground into powder and mixed with flour to eat.
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Amaranth is made into a stinking dish in Shaoxing, Ningbo, but it smells terrible, but it tastes not only fragrant but also appetizing.
The specific method is to remove the leaves from the amaranth growing to a height of more than one meter, cut the amaranth rod with the size of sausage into pieces of about 4 cm, then wash it and soak it in water for three to four days, then pour out the water after it stinks, then mix it with salt, put it in a sprinkling jar for about five kilograms of salt, then suffocate it, put a certain amount of water on it, open the jar cover after stopping for more than ten days, and touch it with your hands. So how to eat it? It's very simple. Put the amaranth out of the jar in a bowl, and be careful not to wash it, otherwise it won't smell bad. Put some distiller's grains, then pour the vegetable oil, and steam it in a steamer. You can eat it.
However, this rotten stinky amaranth is a hair product. Although it tastes fragrant, it should not be eaten by people with inflammation, because it will aggravate the onset of inflammation after eating it. It is especially important to point out that cancer patients should never eat it, and cancer will recur immediately after eating it. It is very spiritual. Don't try this kind of thing, otherwise you will regret it.
Amaranth stems and leaves are eaten as vegetables; The leaves are mixed with various colors for viewing; Roots, fruits and whole grass are used as medicine, which has the effects of improving eyesight, facilitating defecation and removing cold and heat.
Amaranth can invigorate qi, clear away heat, improve eyesight, prevent miscarriage, promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity and prevent muscle spasm. It also has the functions of promoting blood coagulation, increasing hemoglobin content, improving oxygen carrying capacity and promoting hematopoiesis. You can also lose weight and clear your body, promote detoxification and prevent constipation.
Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium easily absorbed by human body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity and prevent intramuscular spasm. At the same time, it is rich in iron, calcium and vitamin K, which can promote blood coagulation. As the saying goes, "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not changed." This shows its high nutritional value.
Some people in rural areas say that "June amaranth is an egg, but July amaranth gold is not changed". What effect does amaranth have?
Many common sayings circulating in rural areas are the crystallization of human wisdom, but a few simple words imply a rich philosophy, which is still applicable today. Why does amaranth, which can be seen everywhere in rural areas, have the saying that "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not changed"?
Amaranth can be seen everywhere in rural areas, and it is also one of the most commonly eaten wild vegetables. In the past, people were poor and could not afford vegetables, so they often ate amaranth to live. With the improvement of people's quality of life, the nutritional value of amaranth has also been discovered, so more and more people like to pick some amaranth to eat in summer. June and July is the most vigorous time for amaranth to grow. After July, amaranth will bear seeds and its taste will drop a lot. Therefore, the best time to eat amaranth is June and July every year. Because of its rich nutrition, it will be comparable to the nutrition of eggs, and gold will not be exchanged for amaranth. Of course, taking gold as a metaphor is to highlight the nutritional value of amaranth.
So what are the nutritional values of amaranth? Amaranth is rich in vitamins, and also contains trace elements such as calcium and iron needed by human beings. The contents of calcium and iron are much higher than those of other vegetables. As we all know, the iron in human body is sufficient to prevent ischemia, and calcium is an important factor to consider whether human bones are strong or not. Amaranth is also called "longevity vegetable". Amaranth contains a variety of dietary fibers. Eating amaranth often can promote intestinal digestion, speed up metabolism and enhance human physique.
Amaranth is suitable for the elderly, children, dieters, ladies, etc. Every year, June and July are the vigorous growth period of amaranth. At this time, amaranth leaves are thick, nutritious, soft and soft, and can be cold and wrapped in jiaozi. When the temperature is high in summer, the human body will be hot and dry. Amaranth has the function of cooling blood. Eating some amaranth in summer can clear away heat, expel dampness, detoxify and relieve constipation.
The above is my personal opinion on "June amaranth is an egg, but July amaranth is not exchanged for gold". I hope it will help you.
There is a saying in rural areas that "June is an egg, but July is not an exchange of gold". On the one hand, it means that amaranth is sown during the Dragon Boat Festival, and June and July are just the season for eating amaranth. On the other hand, when other leafy vegetables are green and yellow in June and July, amaranth just fills the gap, and amaranth is rich in nutrition and various trace elements, which is very good for the human body.
What is the specific effect of eating amaranth?
As a vegetable, amaranth can invigorate qi, clear away heat, improve eyesight, prevent miscarriage and benefit the large intestine.
The calcium contained in amaranth is easily absorbed by human body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones. Rich in calcium, iron and vitamin K, it can promote blood coagulation.
Amaranth is rich in dietary fiber, which can reduce weight, promote the excretion of intestinal toxins and prevent constipation.
Amaranth leaves contain high concentration of lysine, which is suitable for infants and adolescents, and has a good effect on promoting growth and development, especially for infants fed with milk, milk powder and other milk substitutes.
In fact, many children don't want to eat other green leafy vegetables, but they basically won't refuse to eat red amaranth, because the red amaranth soup is purple and beautiful, and my children like to make rice with its soup.
Although amaranth has so many benefits, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and people who often have stomachaches should not eat more. In addition, amaranth is photosensitive, and some people have allergic reactions such as purple and itching after eating it. It is recommended not to go out in the sun for a long time after eating it, or you can choose to eat it at night.