Beauty plantain leaves are common ornamental plants in the south, rarely seen in the north. Its use: rhizome clearing heat and dampness, soothing the tendons; treatment of jaundice and hepatitis, rheumatism and numbness, traumatic bleeding, bruises, uterine prolapse, heart qi pain. Treatment of jaundice acute infectious hepatitis, neurosis, bruises; flowers for gold sores, traumatic bleeding. It is also used externally for bruises and fractures. Plantain can be used to treat deafness, heart joy, seeds for postpartum weakness, the leaves are non-toxic.

How to judge the leaves of the package dumplings?

A look at the appearance. "Green dumpling leaves" looks beautiful, but the color is too green; and normal dumpling leaves in the production process after high temperature cooking, the color will be dark and yellow.

Second smell flavor. Normal rice dumplings wrapped in leaves, cooked rice dumplings will give off the fragrance of the leaves; and "green rice dumplings" wrapped rice dumplings, cooked rice dumplings leaves incense is not strong, there is a faint sulfur flavor. After the public packaged dumplings, you can first experiment, if there is sulfur flavor, to be decisive to abandon.

Third, look at the water to cook rice dumplings. Normal rice dumpling leaves after cooking water was light yellow, "green rice dumpling leaves" after cooking water will show light green.

At present, the leaves that can be used to make rice dumplings are: Ruo bamboo leaves, mistletoe, lotus leaves, banana leaves, corn leaves, Shuu leaves, plantain, Ludu leaves, coconut leaves, and sand nut leaves.