Cardinal k seeds can be eaten.

Rhubarb k seeds are emerging food and food industry raw materials, its calyx can be made of preserves, jams, advanced beverages, cold drinks, soft drinks, iced tea, hot tea, ice-pressed, sorbet, canned, fruit wine, sparkling wine, champagne wine and pastry filling, rose eggplant tofu and many other foods.

Rhubarb k seed tea or wine after taking can play a diuretic, lower blood pressure, blood, skin beauty and so on. Cardinal k seeds are also elderly, children's nutrition. The brilliant rose-colored pigment of the calyx is a coloring agent in food. Cardinal k seeds are flavorful and palatable, and are a high-quality drink for clearing heat and eliminating summer heat in summer.

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The calyx seeds, stems and leaves of Cardinal K fruit can be utilized. The calyx has hypotensive, anti-scorbutic and diuretic medicinal properties, and is a soothing agent in bronchitis and coughing disorders. In the African folk commonly used as a drink, the Arabs with calyx tea called "Sudan tea", some also used as a natural coloring and flavoring of food.

Europeans have long imported dried calyx from Africa, used as jelly, flavored cool drinks. Leaves in addition to the calyx-like medicinal effects, in medical surgery as a wash for abscesses, its leaf juice can also cure cracks on the feet, the epidermis of the stem is one of the main raw materials of the African rope-making. In recent years our country in fujian province large area planting success, each mu can harvest dry calyx more than two hundred pounds. In addition to for export, also sold in the domestic market.

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