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Can gardenias color chickens?
method of coloring chicken with gardenia jasminoides Ellis:

materials: one chicken, appropriate amount of gardenia jasminoides Ellis, and a little ginger.

practice: clean the chicken, drain the water, add the water that hasn't touched the chicken into the pot, add appropriate amount of ginger slices, blanch the chicken in the pot for two minutes after the fire boils, then take it out and soak it in cold water for two minutes, add appropriate amount of gardenia jasminoides Ellis into the pot, put the chicken back into the pot, cook for five minutes, turn off the fire, and wait for the soup to cool to finish coloring.

Gardenia jasminoides Ellis alias: Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, Gardenia jasminoides Ellis and Bufo bufo gargarizans, which are fruits of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis of Rubiaceae.

Gardenia is a shrub with a height of .3-3m; The shoots are often short-haired, and the branches are cylindrical and gray. Leaves opposite, or 3 whorls, leathery, sparsely papery, with various shapes, usually oblong-lanceolate, obovate-oblong, obovate or oval, 3-25 cm long and 1.5-8 cm wide, with a tapering top, a sudden long tapering or a short sharp and blunt tip, a wedge-shaped or short sharp base, often hairless on both sides, bright green on the top and dark on the bottom; Lateral veins 8-15 pairs, convex below and flat above; The petiole is .2-1 cm long; Stipules membranous.

Flowers are fragrant, usually solitary at the top of branches, and pedicels are 3-5 mm long; Calyx tube is obconical or oval, 8-25mm long, with longitudinal edges, tubular calyx eaves, swollen, 5-8-lobed at the top, usually 6-lobed, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-3mm long and 1-4mm wide, growing and persistent when bearing fruit; Corolla is white or milky yellow, saucer-shaped, with sparse throat, narrow cylindrical crown tube, 3-5 cm long and 4-6 mm wide, with 5-8 cracks at the top, usually 6 cracks, widely spreading lobes, obovate or obovate oblong, 1.5-4 cm long and .6-2.8 cm wide; Filaments are extremely short, anthers are linear, 1.5-2.2 cm long and protrude; Style thick, about 4.5 cm long, stigma spindle-shaped, protruding, 1-1.5 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, ovary about 3 mm in diameter, yellow and smooth.

The fruit is ovoid, nearly spherical, oval or oblong, yellow or orange-red, 1.5-7 cm long and 1.2-2 cm in diameter, with 5-9 winged longitudinal ribs, and the persistent sepals at the top are 4 cm long and 6 mm wide; Seeds are numerous, flat, nearly round and slightly angular, about 3.5 mm long and 3 mm wide. The flowering period is from March to July, and the fruiting period is from May to February.