Shepherd's purse in the southern region has the ground vegetable, ground rice vegetable , rhododendron and so on called.

Shepherd's purse in the countryside is more often called diamondback cabbage, fragrant chestnut, white cauliflower, black hearted cabbage, Harvest Pole vegetable, dry oilseed rape and so on. Shepherd's purse is a kind of growth in the field, roadside and courtyard between the common wild vegetables, strong growth capacity, but also often be picked to eat, there are some farmers artificial cultivation shepherd's purse for sale.

Shepherd's purse practice is not limited, in the home cooking, shepherd's purse usually do stuffing, porridge, soup, cold or fried can be eaten.

Eating capers related instructions

Capers are actually a very small plant, every year in the spring, capers will be all over the fields, for the people in the countryside, the people have nothing to do in the spring, like to go to the fields above the digging wild vegetables, not only can be used for food, but also used to feed pigs.

Because shepherd's purse contains a lot of nutrients, rich in a variety of vitamins and a variety of trace elements, especially the calcium content, and even more than tofu, shepherd's purse in the carotene can be similar to carrots, so shepherd's purse is a kind of nutritious and tasty high value of wild vegetables.

Shepherd's purse growth cycle is relatively short, so some more like to eat shepherd's purse area have large-scale shepherd's purse planting base, because the growth cycle of shepherd's purse is relatively short, so a year then can be sown many times, the vegetable harvest can be almost the whole anniversary supply.

In the growing importance of food health and nutritional content of today, caper plant in the past but as a vegetable to eat, generally in addition to the poor people, people almost no rich family to eat, and now some of the history of caper consumption of people in the region, are also willing to spend money to buy caper.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Capricorn (Cruciferae capricornis)