For tortoise jelly, southerners, especially those in the two regions are more than familiar with it, while northerners rarely eat it. Although nowadays there are often canned packages in supermarkets in the north, but most people still do not know how they should eat, eat what can play a role.

In fact, there are many benefits of eating turtle jelly. It is made from a number of Chinese herbs boiled, a long time ago was used as a medicinal diet to eat, eat can promote metabolism, clearing heat and fire, moistening the lungs to stop coughing, but also beauty and nourishing Yin Yin tonic kidney. Sore throat, hemorrhoids, prickly heat and constipation and other diseases, eat it can also play a role in improving. Modern nutritional research has found that turtle jelly contains a variety of active polysaccharides and amino acids, with low-calorie, low-fat, low-cholesterol features, can regulate blood lipids and blood sugar.

Turtle jelly is black and slightly transparent. It was first produced in Wuzhou, Guangxi, is the hawksbill turtle and Poria cocos as the main raw material, and then add licorice, jujube, mulberry leaves, honeysuckle, honey, chrysanthemum, etc., after a long time boiled into a health food. In the past, Guangdong's herbal tea stores often love to raise a few turtles in front to attract customers, however, most of the turtle jelly sold now is the use of turtle gelatin instead of wild money turtles and fresh turtle shells, or the turtle plate ground into powder with Poria cocos and dozens of kinds of traditional Chinese medicine and boiled and made.

The Guangdong region is rainy and humid, with warm winters and hot summers, so Cantonese people, who are concerned about clearing heat and removing toxins, getting rid of dampness and removing heat, often eat turtle jelly. Although the north is not as humid and hot as the south, but eat fried or spicy things more, it is inevitable fire, eat some at the right time, is conducive to eliminating the accumulation of heat in the body, to lift the sore throat caused by climate change, colds and other diseases.

Turtle jelly flavor has more than 10 kinds, people eat the most is the original flavor and milk tea flavor. The original flavor of turtle jelly is slightly bitter, with some honey juice, coconut milk, condensed milk, or add some fruit, it will be much more delicious. Turtle jelly powder can be eaten by making a paste with warm water, then rinsing it into boiling water and adding honey, sugar or condensed milk after cooling. You can make more of it in the hot season and put it in the refrigerator to chill it, which is more delicious, but it's best not to eat more if you're pregnant.

But it is rather cold, and if you eat more of it, you will have problems