My hometown is a famous silk town and has a long history of growing mulberry and raising silkworms. When I was a child, I often climbed up the trees to pick mulberries to eat, but I had never eaten mulberry leaves. Eat mulberry leaves directly, but if you can eat mulberry leaves, it must be unintentional.

Many friends in rural areas have the experience of raising silkworms, and raising silkworms does not require eating food crops like other things. Silkworms do not eat food crops, but eat mulberry leaves. Mulberry leaves have been an essential food for feeding silkworms since ancient times. In many rural areas, you can see the existence of mulberry trees. If you are a home that specializes in raising silkworms, you will plant many mulberry trees. If you plant them one by one, if the silkworms reared on the planted mulberry leaves eat the leftovers, then they will be allowed to grow wildly. , which is consumed.

It is possible that many good friends do not know that mulberry leaves may be an effective traditional Chinese medicine. Mulberry leaves have the functions of evacuating wind-cold and wind-heat, moistening the lungs and dryness, clearing away heat and removing internal heat. However, the medicinal value of mulberry leaves does not become stronger until after the frost. In rural areas, very few people understand the efficacy and function of mulberry leaves.

There is a view in folklore that as long as it is food that people can eat, raised poultry can also eat it and is not easy to be poisoned. On the contrary, people can eat food that poultry can eat. Food, just following this logic, Cong Hui also tried to eat it with mulberry leaves from raising silkworms, and unexpectedly it tasted very good.

The bud tips of mulberry leaves are rich in nutrients and are loved by people. They are called mulberry sprouts. Naturally, people eat the most fragrant buds from the top of the mulberry tree, but they cannot eat the old ones. Especially in some leisure farmhouses, mulberry sprouts are regarded as a signature dish, which has also doubled the value of mulberry leaves used for sericulture. A pound of fresh young leaves can be sold for 10 yuan per pound.

Compared with the old buds, the young leaves of mulberry leaves harvested from branches are hairless and smooth. They are as tasty as other vegetables and have less residue when eaten. According to relevant data, mulberry leaves are rich in nutrients and many unique natural active substances, such as vitamin B2, vitamin E, carotene, flavonoids, etc., which make them have very good dietary therapeutic value. For a high value wild vegetable.

Because there were few food crops, it was often impossible to fill our stomachs. At that time, we ate tree roots, grassroots entrepreneurship, and wild vegetables in the mountains. Such mulberry leaves and mulberry bark were also among them. It’s just that today’s living standards have improved, and no one will eat it. Mulberry leaves are once again served on everyone's table. Many people still don't know that mulberry leaves can be eaten as vegetables, so many people have never eaten mulberry leaf vegetables. So how to eat mulberry leaves?

Mulberry leaves are vegetables. They are eaten in the same way as ordinary leafy vegetables. They can be fried or eaten, made into soup, or mixed with cold dishes, whatever you like. You can wash the mulberry leaves with cold water, boil the water in a pot, blanch the water in it, pick it up, chop it a little, heat the pot, add the mulberry leaves, and break in a few eggs to make mulberry leaves. The fried poached eggs taste very good.