Chicory can eat raw
Chicory can be eaten raw.
Chicory (scientific name: Sonchus oleraceus L.): also known as bitter vegetable, endive, small goose vegetable, for the Asteraceae 1 annual herb. Annual or biennial herb. Root conical, vertically straight, with numerous fibrous fibrous roots. Stem erect, solitary. Basal leaves pinnately parted, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate. Born in fields, roadsides, near village houses. Its young stems and leaves are rich in carotene, VB2 and VC, and are edible. The whole herb of Chicory is used as medicine, which has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, dispelling dampness and lowering blood pressure. Its young stems and leaves can be eaten raw, or can be scalded with boiling water and then soaked in fresh water to remove the bitter flavor, and then cold or fried. Distributed in the world, Europe, Asia, temperate and subtropical regions, growing at an altitude of 170 meters to 3,200 meters above sea level, growing in the forest, mountain slopes, flat fields, open spaces, valleys, forest edges or near water.
Bitter chicory can be eaten raw
Bitter cabbage cold, bitter taste, non-toxic, appetite for one of the common wild vegetables, its edible methods to cold, boiled soup, stir-fried mainly, which cold blanched cold and directly cold two kinds of direct cold, direct cold belongs to the raw, the flavor is more fresh.
Bitter vegetables contain a variety of amino acids, vitamins, and trace elements such as zinc, calcium, manganese, selenium. It is not suitable for consumption in winter, the system of cold drinking should pay attention to, don't overdo it, the other did not, you can feel free to use.
But very often some people have no problem eating these vegetables, while some people eat them and feel uncomfortable, so it is still important to look at their own physical condition to decide.
Effectiveness and function of bitter chicory
(1) prevention and treatment of anemia, summer health. Bitter vegetables are rich in carotene, vitamin C and potassium salts, calcium salts, etc., on the prevention and treatment of anemia, to maintain the body's normal physiological activities, promote growth and development and summer health care has a better role.
(2) Clearing heat and detoxification, sterilization and anti-inflammatory. Bitter cabbage contains dandelion sterol, choline and other components of Staphylococcus aureus drug-resistant strains, hemolytic streptococcus has a strong bactericidal effect on Diplococcus pneumoniae, meningococcus, diphtheria bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery bacillus and so on also have a certain killing effect, so jaundiced hepatitis, pharyngitis, bacterial dysentery, cold and fever, and chronic tracheitis, tonsillitis, and so on, have a certain curative effect.
(3) Prevention and treatment of cancer. Bitter cabbage decoction on acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute and chronic granulocytic leukemia patients with blood cell deoxygenase has a significant inhibitory effect, but also for the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer, rectal cancer, anal cancer.