Lettuce is generally April seasonal vegetables, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, endive, green bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, it is the family of chrysanthemums, annual or biennial herbaceous plants. Lettuce is sold in the market in all seasons, and its main places of origin are Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Taiwan and other places.

What does lettuce look like

The overall stem of lettuce is erect, its upper part is conical, all the stem branches are white, the basal leaves and the lower stem leaves are large, undivided, oblanceolate, elliptic or elliptic oblanceolate, the basal leaves are sagittate embracing the stems, and the leaves are glabrous on both sides.

Lettuce practice

1, cold

Lettuce shaved with a paring knife to remove the skin, rubbed with a shredder into silk, add 5 grams of salt and mix well to marinate for half an hour or so, marinated lettuce fully squeezed dry, add green onion oil, half a teaspoon of salt and sugar can be mixed well, no green onion oil with sesame oil or olive oil can also be used.

2, lettuce fried meat

Pork slices, add a little salt, chicken powder, white pepper, a little wine and marinate; carrots and lettuce and garlic all cut into slices; pot of hot oil, carrots and garlic first into the sautéed, slightly sautéed carrots and then add the meat beat stir-fry to 8 maturity, add slices of lettuce, add a little Meiji-Fresh Soy Sauce, freshness, a little salt, and stir-fry to be cooked.

The efficacy and role of lettuce

1, lower blood pressure

Lettuce is a high potassium and low sodium vegetables, per 100 grams of lettuce containing potassium 212 mg, containing 36.5 mg of sodium, potassium is an essential element to maintain the human body's life, which can make arterial dilatation, reduce peripheral vascular resistance, to promote the urinary excretion of sodium, reduce the burden on the cardiovascular system, so that patients with hypertension, the thickening of arterial walls is reduced, the purpose of lowering blood pressure, the arterial wall of the patient. It can reduce the thickening of the arterial wall in hypertensive patients and achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure.

2, diuretic breast

Lettuce potassium ion content is rich, is 27 times the content of sodium, is conducive to the body's water-electrolyte balance, to promote urination, lettuce contains more nicotinic acid, can increase breast milk secretion, is an important member of the maternal recipes.