Why do you wrap zongzi with bamboo leaves?
People in Guangzhou usually use bamboo leaves to make zongzi, and it is better to choose the one with smooth, soft and tough surface. People in Shantou usually use bamboo leaves to make zongzi. Zongzi has the fragrance of bamboo leaves, but it should be boiled until soft. In Shanghai and other places, the leaves collected from Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province in the dog days every year have a special fragrance, commonly known as "Huizhou Fu Ruo".
What effect does zongye have?
It has long been recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that zongye has the functions of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and treating hematemesis, bleeding, dysuria and carbuncle. Studies have proved that Indocalamus leaf polysaccharide has anti-cancer effect. The Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine also introduces that Zongye has the functions of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, detoxicating and detumescence, and treating hematemesis, dysuria, laryngitis and carbuncle.
In the sub-virgin forest near Zhangjiajie with an altitude of 1000 meters, the effective functional factors were dynamically extracted according to GMP standards by using the latest biotechnology in China and the United States. The extract of the leaf (leaf) was rich in polysaccharide, flavonoids, organic zinc, selenium, iodine, calcium, magnesium, iron, vitamins and amino acids.
This rice dumpling leaf extract has the flavor of rice dumplings, and has strong anti-oxidation, antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. It is a natural functional food additive and a new raw material for health care products. It is mainly added to zongzi, bamboo rice, meat products, puffed food, moon cakes, ready-to-eat grains, baked food, fruit and vegetable juice (meat) drinks, tea drinks, aquatic products, dairy products, oily foods, etc., which directly supplement nutritional functional factors, enhance product characteristics, improve product quality and added value, and the product has great market potential.
What plant leaves are zongzi leaves?
Zongzi leaves are used to wrap zongzi. People in the south often use Indocalamus leaves as leaves for wrapping zongzi, while people in the north are used to wrapping zongzi with reed leaves. Both kinds of zongzi contain chlorophyll and amino acids that are beneficial to our health. Using them to wrap zongzi is not only healthy, but also has a very fresh smell.
What kind of garbage does zongye belong to?
Zongzi leaves are dry garbage. Although it conforms to the definition of wet garbage, its texture is hard and has certain toughness, which may damage the wet garbage processor, so it is classified as dry garbage. Like zongzi leaves, there are many items that meet the definition of wet garbage but belong to dry garbage, such as big bone sticks, durian shells, coconut shells and so on.