Small file aliases of fruits and vegetables: concentric vegetables, unintentional vegetables and bamboo leafy vegetables.
Department: Polypodiaceae
Flowering and fruiting period: summer
Nutritional components: carotene, protein, etc.
Sexual taste enters the meridian: cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the stomach and liver meridian.
Health care effect of water spinach: Pectin contained in water spinach can accelerate the excretion of toxic substances in the body, while lignin can improve the ability of macrophages to swallow bacteria, which has the efficacy of sterilization and anti-inflammation, and can treat diseases such as sores and carbuncles.
Laxation and cancer prevention: Water spinach contains a lot of cellulose, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and help gastrointestinal defecation, and has a good effect on preventing constipation and reducing intestinal cancer.
Strengthen physique, clean teeth and prevent dental caries: Water spinach is rich in vitamin C and carotene, which has the effects of strengthening physique and preventing diseases. In addition, chlorophyll in water spinach has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing dental caries and moistening skin.
Lowering blood sugar: Water spinach contains insulin-like components, which can lower blood sugar and is an ideal vegetable for diabetic patients.
How to choose water spinach When choosing water spinach, the wider the leaves, the fresher and crisper they are. At the same time, we should choose those with no macula and shorter stems.
How to eat the most nutritious? Stems and young leaves are best eaten separately. Young leaves are suitable for quick stir-frying or cold salad. Eating them with yuba, tofu, color, minced meat and sesame sauce can make the nutritional collocation more reasonable. The stem can be diced and fried with soybean and bean dregs, which has unique taste and rich nutrition.
Suitable crowd: the general population can eat it, and the elderly, people with constipation due to intestinal dryness, hemorrhoids and bloody stool are more suitable for eating.
Not suitable for people: people with weak constitution, deficiency of spleen and stomach, and thin stool should not eat more.
Suitable match: water spinach and meat are eaten together, which has health care function.
Not suitable for collocation: spinach is similar to medlar and cheese, which is prone to bloating and diarrhea and will hinder the absorption of calcium.
Before eating, it is recommended to put some garlic when eating cold salad or fried spinach, because garlic can alleviate the coldness of spinach.
How to keep it freshest? Remove the rotten stems and leaves of water spinach, then tie them up, seal them with plastic bags and keep them in the refrigerator.
Gourmet link cold spinach
Ingredients: 500g water spinach, garlic, vinegar, sugar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, salt and Chili oil.
Practice: (1) Wash water spinach and cut into sections; Garlic tree, garlic cloves chopped. (2) Boil a pot of hot water, put the water spinach into the soup, take it out quickly, and blow it with a fan. (3) Add minced garlic, vinegar and sugar, a little salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, and add some Chili oil and stir well. (4) Arrange the water spinach on a plate, pour in the cold sauce and mix well.
Efficacy: detoxification and laxative.
Fried spinach
Ingredients: water spinach, salt, monosodium glutamate, minced garlic and sesame oil.
Practice: (1) Wash and drain water spinach for later use. (2) Place the wok on a strong fire, heat the oil to 70% heat, and saute the minced garlic. (3) Pour in the water spinach, stir-fry until it is just broken, add salt and monosodium glutamate, stir well, and pour in sesame oil to serve.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Small remedies for fruits and vegetables 1 for fever, urgency and hematuria: 300g of water spinach and 200g of water chestnut. Wash and chop water spinach. Wash water chestnut, put it in the pot, take it out and break it; They all mash the juice and add honey to take it. Every day 1 time.
Recipe 2: Pound a large bowl of water spinach juice in case of food poisoning, take 0/20g of raw licorice/kloc-and 30g of honeysuckle, and fry them into thick juice, and take them with the water spinach juice.
Folk prescription 3 treats unknown swelling, traumatic injury, swelling and pain, mashing spinach, frying it with wine, applying it to the affected area and dressing it.
Prescription 4: Peel the fresh water spinach for herpes zoster and take its stem. After firing on the new ceramic tile, grind it into fine powder, stir it with tea seed oil into oily bone shape, wash the affected area with strong tea juice, dry it, and apply this ointment 2-3 times a day.