Celery has a special flavor, slightly like the taste of medicine, so our side also called it medicine celery, celery than thick, stems and leaves are turquoise, ordinary celery is more thin, the lower half of the stem is white, leaves and the upper part is green.

Celery for the umbelliferae herb. Taste pungent, sweet, cool, clearing heat and calming the liver, with stomach, lowering blood pressure and other effects. Mainly contains flavonoids, volatile oil, mannitol, cyclohexanol, vitamin and niacin.

Native to the Mediterranean coast, formerly known as celery. Cultivation of celery in China is said to have a history of more than two thousand years. Celery has two kinds of dry celery and water celery, long eaten is dry celery, water celery only in the south to eat. Celery is characterized by fat plants, crisp and tender, less slag.

Celery contains protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals, of which phosphorus and calcium content is high. Eat often on high blood pressure, vascular sclerosis, neurasthenia, pediatric chondromalacia, etc. have auxiliary therapeutic effect. At the same time celery also contains volatile celery oil, with flavor, can promote appetite.