Pork belly stewed lotus seed is not poisonous.

There is a rumor in folklore that in the lotus stewed pork belly, if it is used to dry eggplant branches and leaves for the fire, dry eggplant branches and leaves of the flying dust fall into the soup, will make the soup become poisonous, this is an ancient rumor, but the modern lotus pork belly soup, are electric or gas natural gas, there is no such thing as folklore. Pork belly for the pig family animal pig's stomach. The use of pork belly can cook a variety of food.

Introduction of lotus seed

Lotus seed, Chinese medicine name. For the water lily family plant lotus Nelumbo nucifera?Gaertn. dry mature seeds. Distributed in China's north and south provinces. Collection and processing Autumn fruit ripening harvesting and cutting the lotus room, take out the fruit, remove the pericarp, dry.

Perennial aquatic herb; rhizome transverse, plump, internodes expanded, with most longitudinal aeration channels, nodes constricted, bearing black scale leaves above, bearded adventitious roots below. Leaves orbicular, peltate, 25-90 cm in diameter, slightly undulate all round, smooth and whitish above, veins shooting out from the center below, with 1-2 times forked branches; petiole stout, terete, 1-2 m long, hollow, outside scattered with small spines.

Flowering pedicels and petioles as long as or slightly longer, also scattered with small spines; flowers 10-20 cm in diameter, beautiful, fragrant; petals red, pink or white, rectangular-elliptic to obovate, 5-10 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, tapering from the outside to the inside, sometimes turning into a stamen, with a rounded apex or apiculate; anthers striped, filaments elongated and inserted below the receptacle; styles very short, stigmas terminal; Receptacle (rosette) 5-10 cm in diameter.