Ordinary bean paste is mainly made of red beans, green beans and other beans, bean paste is the product of these beans after soaking, cooking, mashing, adding syrup or sweet sauce mixing and other steps. Bean paste is often used as a filling for snacks such as bean paste moon cakes, and can also be made into a variety of delicious foods.
Chen Pi Bean Paste is made by adding Chen Pi on top of regular bean paste. Chenpi is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with the effects of regulating qi and lowering rebelliousness, regulating the middle and opening the stomach, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, etc. Therefore, Chenpi Bean Paste may have the special aroma and sweetness of Chenpi in the taste, and at the same time, it can also exert the medicinal effects of Chenpi, for example, promoting the health of the stomach and intestine, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
It is also worth noting that Chenpi Douzha may require more time and effort than regular Douzha during the boiling process, as it needs to be mixed with the peels and beans and slowly boiled together, so as to let the aroma of the peels and the flavors of the beans fully blend.
Overall, the difference between tangerine peel bean paste and regular bean paste mainly lies in whether or not tangerine peel is added.