Firecracker shoots scientific name is collectively classified as seawater vegetables, like kelp, stone cauliflower, Haidong vegetable, sea asparagus, sea Yingcai and so on. Can be eaten as a vegetable, can also be dehydrated and used as a food ingredient, is a high-grade organic food, seawater vegetables contain salt belongs to the biological salt.

The name of the firecracker shoots are later sold in the market to take the name, mainly to carry up a long like a string of firecrackers, so named firecracker shoots, taste strong, eat in the mouth is very crispy, bite in the mouth squeaky, the taste is similar to those of the seaweed, mainly because of the taste is good.

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Sea water vegetables in addition to containing all kinds of nutrients contained in ordinary vegetables, ash, crude protein, vitamin B2, vitamin C, carotene content than the same kind of ordinary vegetables to be higher, of which the carotene content of 40 times higher, zinc, selenium, and other trace elements content of 2 times higher ~ 6 times. It can reduce cholesterol, blood fat, hypertension, diabetes have a good therapeutic effect.

At present, most of the cultivated varieties can be eaten raw and are common vegetable varieties on the local family table, which can be adapted to the public taste. With the development of mass consumption towards nutrition and health care, salt-resistant seawater vegetables --- sea Yingcai, sea asparagus and other varieties, because of its rich nutrition, unique taste and storage resistance and will be very popular among the public.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Seawater Vegetables