What are the ways to eat snowdrop fruit?
1. The most simple dry that is eaten raw, from the soil picking snow lotus fruit out, as long as the topsoil washed away, peeled off the outer skin, can be used as a fruit as directly chewed to eat. If you can put two or three days after picking, it can increase the sweetness, highlighting its juicy, crisp and sweet, fragrant flesh characteristics.
2. It is also a good way to prepare various dishes according to local dietary habits.
3. There are even more industry to see this market, the snow lotus fruit as raw materials, research and development of snow lotus fruit tea, snow lotus fruit jelly, snow lotus fruit pastries, etc., so that the people can taste a variety of different textures of the snow lotus fruit flavor.
4. Chopped snowdrop fruit into sweet cakes, because it has its own sweetness, so do not have to add sugar to flavor, it will become a delicious tea snacks, but also very consistent with the modern city people in pursuit of natural and green health food concept.
How to make soup
Snow lotus fruit meat bone soup
Materials: snow lotus fruit, meat bone, ginger, figs, salt.
Practice
1. Meat bones fly water, add water, ginger, figs fierce fire simmer for half an hour.
2. Add the snowdrops fruit boil one hour on a gentle fire, under the salt seasoning can be.
Snow lotus fruit chicken soup
Materials: 500 grams of snow lotus fruit, 1 old hen, ginger 3 slices, salt to taste.
Cooking method
1. Wash the old hen, chopped into large pieces, blanched in boiling water, fished up and drained.
2. Peel and cut the snow lotus fruit into hobnail pieces, and slice the ginger.
3. Tile pot filled with the right amount of water, put the chicken pieces, ginger slices boiled over high heat, change to low heat for 1 hour.
4. Add the snow lotus fruit, and then boil over high heat, small fire for half an hour, add salt to taste.
Side effects of snow lotus fruit
1, sex cold, gastrointestinal bad people eat with caution. After a large number of consumption will appear stomach cold, stool soup and other symptoms.
2, stomach cold people, may eat cold bloating, but can be soaked in boiling water to eat, most people start to eat three days of diarrhea phenomenon, but four days later will be normal, stools like children, which is normal.
3, in a very small number of allergy, snow lotus fruit eat too much will be diarrhea, metabolic acidosis, rapid heart rate but blood pressure drop, dehydration, hypoproteinemia, consciousness disorder and even shock. This is clinical evidence, but the incidence of this kind of situation is about one in a million.
4, the snow lotus fruit eat more will stomach flatulence, resulting in farts, let you depressed, difficult, but this is the snow lotus fruit in the play of medicine, regulating your intestinal and gastrointestinal function, a good sign.
5, snowdrop fruit contains a chemical composition, namely tannin, also known as tannin. Snowdrop fruit is cut and peeled, exposed to the air will turn brown. The reason for discoloration is due to oxidation, tannins in the phenols produce quinone polymers to form brown pigment, also known as melanin, in order to prevent discoloration, can be peeled and cut snowdrop fruit in water to soak, so that it is isolated from the air, can prevent oxidative discoloration. So we have to eat fresh, now peeled first, so as to avoid chemical reactions leading to access to melanin.