1, benefits
(1) Edible: Chinese kale contains organic alkali, which makes it bitter, which can stimulate people's taste nerve, stimulate appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis and help digestion.
(2) Medicinal use: Another unique bitter ingredient in Chinese kale is Cinchona cream, which can inhibit the overexcited body temperature center and play a role in relieving summer heat. It also contains a lot of dietary fiber to prevent constipation. Lowering cholesterol, softening blood vessels and preventing heart disease. It has the effects of eliminating phlegm, detoxicating and expelling wind, relieving summer-heat and fever, relieving fatigue, clearing heart fire and improving eyesight, moistening intestine to remove heat, relieving deficiency fire, stopping gingival bleeding, and also has adjuvant therapeutic effects on gastrointestinal heat, insomnia after staying up late, rising deficiency fire, gingival swelling and bleeding, etc.
2, eating practices
The flower moss and tender leaves of Chinese kale are crisp and tender, light and crisp, crisp but not hard, crisp but not tough, and fried food is the best, such as fried beef and kidney with Chinese kale. Cantonese fried kale is characterized by adding a small amount of soy sauce and sugar to taste, and adding a small amount of cooking wine before cooking. In addition, it can be cooked in boiling water as a cold salad.
Recipe: Fried Chinese kale with beef, freshly grilled Chinese kale, boiled Chinese kale, fried meat with Chinese kale, fried Chinese kale with corn shoots, fried mushrooms with Chinese kale cashews, preserved Chinese kale, etc.
Suitable crowd: the general population can eat. It is especially suitable for patients with anorexia, constipation and high cholesterol.