I remember the custom of eating taro (also called taro) in Shanghai every Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, it was just an early adopter. With the coming of winter, it is the most fragrant time of the year for taro. I believe many friends have eaten it and can't put it down! It turns out that taro is a good product for health and nourishing in winter, so how much does taro make up? Let's talk together today!
Although ugly in appearance, it is rich in nutrition.
Taro is ugly, dark brown, round, with rough surface and burrs of different lengths on the epidermis. However, modern nutrition has found that taro contains a lot of functional ingredients such as starch, protein, minerals (calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium), vitamins (VC and B), saponins, etc., and its nutritional value is extremely high! It is not only a vegetable, but also a grain, which can be cooked, dried or ground.
Taro used to be so good.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is sweet and pungent, and has the functions of resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass, relaxing bowels and detoxicating, invigorating qi and spleen, and replenishing essence and marrow. It is also found that the starch granules of taro are smaller, which is110 of potato, and the digestibility can reach over 98%. Therefore, it is especially suitable for people with weak body and poor constitution, such as patients who have recovered from a serious illness. Specifically, it has the following magical effects, and female compatriots pay special attention to it:
1. Enhance immunity and anti-tumor: taro contains a mucin, which can be absorbed by human body to produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin, which can improve the body's resistance. It plays an auxiliary role in preventing tumor or cancer during postoperative rehabilitation.
2. Prevention of gout: Chinese medicine believes that taro has the function of detumescence and stagnation, which can alleviate the symptoms of joint swelling and pain in gout patients.
3. beauty beauty, black hair: Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize the acidic substances accumulated in the body, adjust the acid-base balance of the human body, and produce the effect of beautifying black hair; In addition, the mucin in taro can prevent premature wrinkles, maintain skin moisture, enhance skin elasticity, and achieve the purpose of firming skin and delaying aging.
4. Regulating middle qi: Chinese medicine believes that taro can replenish middle qi. It is rich in mucin saponins and a variety of trace elements, which can help the human body correct physiological abnormalities caused by trace element deficiency, stimulate appetite and help digestion.
5. Cleaning teeth and preventing caries: Among the minerals contained in taro, the content of fluorine is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.
Yutoude nutrition delicious home-cooked dish
Many people have eaten all kinds of delicious food about taro, such as coconut milk taro sago, taro sparerib pot, steamed taro, taro barbecue and so on. It can be described as versatile, but I still like the steamed taro made by my mother in my memory. It is original and has no loss of nutrition. My mouth is watering!
Steamed taro: Peel the taro, cut it into small pieces (if it is not big enough), steam it in a steamer for 20 minutes until it is waxy (chopsticks can easily pass through), and the fragrant taro can be cooked. Of course, if you think the taste is bland, you can dip it in spices such as vinegar and soy sauce.