Difference between chicken ginger and ginger:

1, flavor difference

Chicken ginger is a perennial herb in the family of Asteraceae, also known as chrysanthemums, and ginger perennial rooted herb in the family of Zingiberaceae, is one of the most common condiments in our life. Chicken ginger is cool, sweet and bitter taste, and ginger flavor aromatic, with period unique pungent flavor, so we can obviously distinguish from the taste of which of them is chicken ginger, which is ginger.

2, the use of the difference

Chicken ginger can be eaten, boiled or porridge to eat, in addition to the harvest many people like to pickle it into pickles, taste refreshingly sweet and sour, is an appetizer, in addition, it is rich in fructose polymers such as amylose inulin, which can be used to produce raw materials for starch and alcohol.

And ginger we also understand, it is mainly as a condiment, can also be used to decoct soup, if it is a young ginger can also be used as a dish, but in the cooking should pay attention to, do not chicken ginger as ginger fried to eat.

3, the efficacy of the difference

Chicken ginger has a diuretic, cool blood, heat, stomach and the effects of diabetes has a certain degree of adjuvant therapy to help; and ginger for the treatment of the spleen and stomach cold, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, colds and colds, nasal congestion, headache and other symptoms have a better symptom, life, we are in the often use ginger soup to treat colds and colds.

Ginger preservation methods:

One, salt water immersion method

After the ginger bought back, prepare a small container, which put some water, and then add a little bit of salt, after the melting, put the ginger into the brine, after a period of time, the surface of the ginger will be wrapped in a layer of salt, so that the ginger can be preserved for a long time! It will last for a long time, at least 2 months.

Second, drying method

If you buy ginger is not much, home from the supermarket close to buy 3, 4 pieces at a time, then you can use the drying method, with the fan to blow dry the ginger skin, stored for a week easily. You can also wash the ginger skin first, the same in lightly salted water for a while, remove the sassafras dry moisture, and then use the fan to dry the skin, you can store 1 month of time.

Three, sealed fresh method

Wash the ginger for a while, naturally dry, and then wrapped in plastic wrap, placed in the refrigerator in the fresh layer, can be stored for half a year time is not bad to eat is also delicious! This method is particularly useful, but also most people like the ginger preservation method.