It is a plant name, belonging to Amaranthaceae. The leaves are oval or prismatic, the leaves are green or purplish red, the fibers in the stems are generally thick, and there will be residue when chewing.

Millet dish: the scientific name is amaranth, Yunnan people call it millet dish, and Sichuan people call it dry dish! It is a common wild vegetable in Yunnan, which grows in the fields, tastes sweet and bitter, can clear away heat and detoxify, and is a common dish on the table of Yunnan people.

Amaranth is sensitive to light, and exposed to the sun, people with allergic constitution will have plant solar dermatitis.

It is nutritious and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and relieving sore throat, but amaranth is cold. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat it, nor should they eat it with soft-shelled turtles, otherwise it will cause poisoning.

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Main value of millet vegetable

clear heat and detoxicate

Clear your eyes and ease your throat. Millet vegetables are sweet and cool in taste, and are good at clearing away damp-heat, clearing away liver-heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and removing blood stasis. They have certain auxiliary therapeutic effects on red and white dysentery caused by damp-heat and red eyes and sore throat caused by liver-fire inflammation.

eutrophy

Millet dishes are rich in protein and fat. Sugar, a variety of vitamins and minerals, its protein can be fully absorbed by the human body more than milk, and its carotene content is more than 2 times higher than that of eggplant, which can provide rich nutrients for the human body, help to strengthen the body and improve the immunity of the body, and is called "longevity dish".

Promote growth and development

The content of iron in millet is 1 times that of spinach, and the content of calcium is three times, making it the best among fresh vegetables. More importantly, amaranth does not contain oxalic acid, and the calcium and iron contained in it can be easily absorbed and utilized after entering the human body. Therefore, amaranth can promote the growth and development of children, and has certain dietotherapy value for fracture healing.

Reference source? Baidu encyclopedia-Xiaomi dish