The difference between sand ginger and ginger:

1, ginger than sand ginger pungent smell heavy: sand ginger taste pungent, warm, have warmed the cold, appetizer digestion, gas and pain effect. Sand ginger texture is crisp and tender, with a unique aroma, although the smell of spicy, but not as heavy as the spicy flavor of ginger.

2, the role of different. Sand ginger has the role of freshness and flavor, ginger to remove the role of the cold in addition to fishy. Sand ginger and chicken is the best companion, can make the chicken fresh and delicious. The spicy flavor of ginger, not only to fishy, but also to enhance the role of freshness and aroma, which is ginger does not have the characteristics. Ginger has the effect of removing cold and fishy, usually when cooking, for example, every time you do fish, shrimp, shellfish and other aquatic dishes, always put some ginger to get rid of cold and fishy.

3, suitable for different people. Sand ginger is suitable for people with cold stomach, ginger is suitable for people with wind chill. Ginger is suitable for people with cold stomach and abdominal cold pain, intestinal tinnitus and diarrhea or stopping the food does not melt the person to eat. Ginger is suitable for people with cold stomach, cold stomach and vomiting, cold cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fish and crab poison.

Expanded Information:

Nutritional Value: Ginger is a good choice for people who have a cold stomach, vomiting, coughing and diarrhea. p>Nutritional value: ginger contains pungent and aromatic components. Pungent components for an aromatic volatile oil in the "ginger oil ketone". One of the main ginger oil terpene, water fennel, camphor terpene, ginger phenol, eucalyptus oleoresin, starch, mucilage and so on.

Edible part of 95%. Each 100g contains 172kj of energy, 87g of water, 1.3g of protein, 0.6g of fat, 2.7g of dietary fiber, 7.6g of carbohydrates, 170μg of carotenoids, 28μg of retinol equivalents, thiamine 0.02mg;

Riboflavin 0.03mg, 0.8mg of niacin; vitamin C 4mg; potassium 295mg, sodium 14.9mg, calcium 27mg, magnesium 44mg, iron 1.4mg, manganese 320mg, zinc 0.34mg, molybdenum 0.14mg, phosphorus 25mg, selenium 0.56μg. It also contains gingersenosine, which is a constituent that promotes the secretion of digestive juices.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ginger

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ginger (commonly used as a flavoring plant)