Just picked fresh osmanthus flowers can not be eaten, just picked fresh osmanthus flowers contain more tannins, eat in the mouth will feel bitter and lack of flavor. Therefore, fresh osmanthus flowers are usually cooked for a long time, when the astringent flavor is reduced or even completely disappeared, it is suitable to use it to process into a variety of food.

If you are really in a hurry, you must also simply process it before eating it. You can wash the fresh osmanthus flowers with a cloth, squeeze the water in the osmanthus flowers and then add the right amount of sugar and mix well, and then put into the glass compaction and sealing, pickling more than 4 days before you can take out to eat.

If not in a hurry, a small amount of cinnamon is usually pickled in the following two ways:

Method 1: sugar cinnamon

Cinnamon appropriate amount of cinnamon, rinsed with water, dry water, and the same weight or two times the cinnamon of sugar mix, packed into the jar, which has become the color, aroma, flavor, and all the best sugar cinnamon.

Method 2: salted osmanthus

500 grams of osmanthus, add salt, alum 125 grams each and 500 milliliters of cold boiled water, a little stirring can be. Sealed in a bottle, can be stored for a long time. This method can make osmanthus color and aroma unchanged when used to fish out, and then rinse with cold water.

With the above method of processing fresh osmanthus products, generally can be directly mixed into a variety of sweet snacks to eat. Such as glutinous rice sweet wine, eight treasures of rice, lotus heart porridge, bean paste soup dumplings and other snacks in the center with a little, that is fragrant, appetizing. In addition, you can also osmanthus as ingredients, homemade lotus root osmanthus cake, osmanthus Lantern, osmanthus cake, osmanthus glutinous rice dumplings, osmanthus sugar lotus root, osmanthus sugar taro, osmanthus chestnut cake, osmanthus yam dun and other various family sweets.

Osmanthus is one of China's top ten traditional flowers, set of greening, landscaping, aroma in one of the ornamental and practical excellent garden species, osmanthus can be clear dust, thick can be far from overflowing, can be called one of the best. The effects of osmanthus are as follows:

1. Resolve phlegm and cough

Osmanthus contains aromatic substances, can dilute phlegm, promote respiratory phlegm discharge, with phlegm, cough, asthma effect.

2. Promote qi and pain, blood and dysentery

Osmanthus is pungent and aromatic, has the function of qi, can relieve pain, blood and silt, and promote the excretion of intestinal impurities, under the intestinal wind and dysentery blood.

3. Bad Breath

Osmanthus aroma, can get rid of bad taste in the mouth, and have the effect of killing bacteria in the mouth, is a good dietary therapy for people with bad breath.