Catalog 1 Pinyin 2 Overview 3 Alias of Mustard Seed 4 Nutritional Value of Mustard Seed 5 Shopping for Mustard Seed 6 Therapeutic Benefits of Mustard Seed 7 Uses of Mustard Seed 1 Pinyin

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2 Overview

Two-year-old herb. Stems erect, white sparsely hairy when young, old stems glabrous. Basal leaves large, long-petiolate, leaf blade long elliptic, or lyrate, margin notched; leaf blade lanceolate, entire. Racemes terminal, corollas brightly colored. Long-horned fruit terete, apically shortly beaked, seeds rounded, called yellow mustard seeds. Fl. April to June. Native to Iga, cultivated throughout the country. When the fruit is ripe and yellow, cut the whole plant, sun-dried, hit the seeds, bump off the impurities, that is, mustard seed. Mustard seeds ground into powder, powder processing modulation into a paste, that is, mustard hot sauce, for flavoring spices. Use part of the mature seeds of cruciferous mesquite.

3 Alias of mustard seed

Green mustard seed, yellow mustard seed, Mustard

4 Nutritional value of mustard seed

Yellow mustard seed is mainly composed of mustard seed glycosides (Sinigrin) and a small amount of mustard seed enzyme. In addition, it also contains erucic acid, fat, protein and so on. Mustard seed enzyme angle generated after the increase of pungent flavor of mustard oil, the composition of thiocyanic acid methyl ester, isopropyl ester, butyl ester and so on. Beneficial gas, phlegm, collaterals, antibacterial and analgesic effects.

5 Mustard seed purchase

Mustard after a long period of cultivation and breeding, there are a variety of types and varieties. The color of the seed is divided, in addition to the above mustard (Brassica juncea, whose seeds are called "yellow mustard"), there are white mustard (Sinapis alba, whose seeds are called "white mustard") produced in Europe and North America and black mustard (B. juncea, whose seeds are called "black mustard") produced in southern Italy. In addition to white mustard (Sinapis alba, the seeds of which are called "white mustard") in Europe and North America, there is also black mustard (B. nigra, the seeds of which are called "black mustard") in southern Italy.

6 therapeutic effects of mustard seeds

taste pungent and warm. Dry mustard seed odorless, powder with water fine whetstone showed a strong pungent flavor. It is beneficial to qi, phlegm, collaterals, antibacterial and analgesic effects.

7 Uses of mustard seeds