Sophora rice is a flower.

Sophora rice is the dried flower buds of the legume Sophora japonica. The flower buds are harvested in the summer before the flowers open and are called "acacia rice", while the flowers are harvested when they open and are called "acacia flowers". Sophora japonica is yellow-brown or yellow-green in appearance, slightly wrinkled, the lower calyx is campanulate with a 5-toothed split at the apex, and the upper part is the unopened corolla, which varies in size and is sparsely white pubescent outside. The texture is loose and brittle, the air is weak and the flavor is slightly bitter. Flower bends green and thick, buds strong, no branches and pedicels are preferred.

"Sophora rice" and "Sophora japonica" harvest season is different, for example, this Sophora japonica flower it is in the flowers just open when harvested, so it is called the new Sophora japonica, but this Sophora japonica rice is in the opening of the time only to collect some of the flowers, so it is called the new Sophora japonica, but this Sophora japonica rice is in the opening of some flowers, so it is called the new Sophora japonica, so it is called the new Sophora japonica. So it is called acacia rice, and the seasons of the two of them are different in the first place.

Value of Sophora

Sophora is also a natural plant dye, not only for food coloring, but also for textiles. The taste of acacia flowers is tender, fragrant and sweet, which is a good raw material for making food. In ancient times, the year of famine and crop failure, the people used acacia flowers to make cakes to fill the famine, is everyone's life-saving food. Until now, people still use it buns, cooking acacia cake, making a variety of local flavors, delicacies. Generally speaking, the edible acacia flowers should be dry flowers.

The best in the summer when the flowers are first blossomed harvest, remove impurities, the day of drying. This dried acacia flowers are yellow or light brown, bright color, not easy to deteriorate. If the dew or rain, sun-dried every other day, the color is easy to turn black, easy to mold. If you get acacia rice, into the meal dose should be the same as acacia flowers. To acacia flowers brewed acacia honey has a light fragrance of acacia flowers, sweet, fresh and clean, fragrant and palatable, is common and quite popular with the public a kind of honey.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Sophora japonica