Difference between white asparagus and green asparagus: different taste, different eating method, different harvesting method.

1, the taste is different

White asparagus due to insufficient sunshine, dietary fiber content is high, so the taste is rough. Green asparagus sunshine enough, taste better.

2, eating different

Green asparagus as the most common kind of asparagus on the market, its eating a lot of daily cooking and frying and cooking soup can be. White asparagus is generally less common in home cooking, and is usually used to make some of the more upscale Western dishes or used to make canned asparagus.

3, harvesting is not the same

White asparagus needs to be sealed (soil) asparagus shoots do not see the sun, no photosynthesis, so it is white. Green asparagus does not seal the soil and undergoes photosynthesis, so it is green.

Geographic distribution

As the shoots of reeds, asparagus is widely distributed in the northeast of the Liaohe Delta, the Songnen Plain, the Three Rivers Plain, Inner Mongolia's Hulunbeier and Xilingol Grasslands, Xinjiang's Lake Bosten, the Ili Valley and the Tacheng Emin Valley, the North China Plain, such as the Bailang Dian and other reeds. Today, the main breeding bases are Shuyang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places.

Cheng Jie, "On the Natural Distribution, Social Utilization and Cultural Reflection of Reed Resources in Ancient China" ("Read River Journal", No.1, 2013), has a systematic and detailed discussion on the distribution, economic and cultural value of reeds in China, which is worth referring to.