Lotus seed is usually good without core.

The core of lotus seed is bitter, so when you cook soup with lotus seed, if you don't remove the heart inside, it may make the soup taste more bitter.

In addition, the lotus seed core also belongs to the cold food, cold body or cold fear of cold people, when eating lotus seed can not take lotus seed heart. Eat lotus seeds can be soaked in water to drink, you can also cook porridge to drink, but also with some soup food, but try not to eat more.

The lotus seed core is mainly taken from the lotus seed, lotus is an aquatic plant, nature like relatively stable calm shallow water, lakes, marshes, swamps, ponds, is its habitat.

The lotus seed core is slightly stick-like, 1 to 1.4cm long and about 0.2cm in diameter. The young leaves are green, one long and one short, rolled into an arrow shape, the apex is reflexed downward, and tiny germs can be seen between the two young leaves. The radicle is cylindrical, about 3mm long and yellowish white. The texture is brittle, easy to break, the section has several small holes. It has a slight odor and bitter taste.

Lotus seed commodities are divided into two categories of red lotus seed, white lotus seed, but also subdivided into Xiang lotus seed, red lotus seed and Jianlian, Guangchang white lotus four.

Lotus seed commodities to new and dry goods is good, new goods goods chewing slightly glutinous and not very hard and brittle, and easy to cook rotten, old goods is hard and brittle bite, long time to cook does not rot. Lotus seed core with often with the yuan ginseng, maitong, etc. with the application.