Asparagus tips are edible and contain the highest nutritional content.

The tips of asparagus contain a large number of amino acids, especially arginine, which can relieve the body of high blood fat, and regulate the body's discomfort, help prevent heart disease and vascular disease, help the body to urinate, and regulate edema.

The second is that asparagus tips contain the most abundant water and vitamin content, with beauty and whitening effect, as well as to relieve the body's fatigue, eliminating a large number of toxins in the body.

How to choose asparagus

1, look at the freshness

No matter which kind of asparagus, freshness is the most important thing when buying. The shape of the whole plant is straight, fresh young stems, fine texture, shoot tip buds (scales) closely, not open awns, did not grow axillary buds, there is no water damage rotting odor, bright skin does not shrivel the best.

2, look at the color

The edible part of the asparagus is the young stem, according to the color of the asparagus harvest, can be divided into white asparagus and green asparagus two kinds. Green asparagus has a fragrant odor, tastes crispy and delicious, and has high nutritional value, which contains calcium, iron and a variety of vitamins are much higher than white asparagus, fresh food to green asparagus is better. White asparagus taste delicate, mainly used in the production of canned goods, can also be used to blanch in salted water after eating, eating and green asparagus compared to the astringent flavor can not be felt at all, the freshness and sweetness is also higher.