Can the flowers in the plate be eaten? Pay attention to the foodies!

Chinese food pays attention to color and fragrance, and the dishes on the table must not be as confused as curry sauce. Even the sticky soup, there are carefully carved accessories by the chef next to them -the carrot becomes a dragon and phoenix, and the beauty of her heart becomes a peony flower, and even tofu can become Luohan. There is no doubt that these accessories make the dining table more colorful and become lively and fragrant.

In today's yearning for nature, the real flower replace radish flowers next to the plate. But the question is, can these flowers on your dining plate be eaten? Let's start with a beautiful flower -dry golden lotus.

Although the name is soil, he was born with foreign spirit

The Golden Lotus is also called Jinlian, but the latter is also the name of the golden lotus flower of Mao Ying family. The common point of the two is that they have a brilliant color of the sun. Golden Lotus's flowers are more like an Fengxian flower growing. However, the blades of the dry golden lotus look like a reduced version of the lotus leaves. When the breeze blows, it really feels like "Lotus Leaf He Tiantian". This is probably the source of the name of the dry golden lotus.

Similar to the roller leaves to the ruffled leaves

The dry golden lotus has a long calyx distance

The dry golden lotus family is a relatively small family. There are only more than 80 kinds of plants in the whole Golden Lotus family, but many of them have maverick flowers, just like the enlarged version of Fengxian flowers. It is similar to the common Fengxian flowers. The flower of the dry golden lotus also has a long tail. It is the structure of the calyx distance, and those who can really attract animals to spread pollen for flowers must also rely on the sweet nectar inside.

Golden lotus

The dry golden lotus came from the ocean to the sea, their hometown in the Andes in South America. There, people eat the dry golden lotus as vegetables, not only flowers, but also young and tender leaves can also enter the plate. It's just that in China, this kind of plants with bright flowers are usually used on the layout of flower beds, and few people think that such plants can also be eaten.

Mustard flavor flowers

The taste of dry Jinlian is quite individual -spicy. This spicy taste does not have a strong burning sensation like peppers, nor does it have a very refreshing smell like garlic, but it is similar to the spicy taste of mustard irritation. As far as the blood relationship is concerned, the Crown Flower Department where the dry Jinlian family and the mustard are located. The spicy substance in the dry golden lotus, the spicy substances of isoocyanate, are also the same as the spicy substances of the mustard. These substances play the role of defense in many plants.

The spicy taste of the dry golden lotus is similar to that of mountains and sunflowers, mustard, etc.

The stimulus taste, including pilling vegetables, mustard rapeseed, mountains and sunflowers, and spicy root comes from a type of substance called isoocyanate. This substance has a special smell similar to mustard. Almost all Cross Flower plants have this kind of chemical, cabbage, radish, cabbage, broccoli, and broccoli are more or less spicy. This special smell is actually to exist against pests, and not many bugs are willing to commit crimes. Of course, some special animals have ignored this threat, and even fell in love with this kind of irritation. Human beings are one of them.

Interestingly, if we do not chop these vegetables, they are mild and do not irritate the smell. That's because these chemical weapons usually exist in the form of mustard oil. Only when the plants are bitten and attacked, the mustard oil is decomposed under the action of the corresponding enzyme, releases isoocyanic acid, and changes to change. Body pungent substance!

Nutrition and risk of eating flowers

Today, eating flowers is a particularly fashionable approach, which is probably because the flowers are too beautiful. In many propaganda, it is said that the flowers are rich in nutrition, rich in protein, vitamins and minerals. Because flowers are the breeding parts of plants, in order to supply young seeds to grow, it is reasonable to reserve some nutrition here. The vitamin C content of the dry golden lotus is rich (130 mg/100 grams), and the ding contained in it is also the highest among common vegetables. There is a healthy heart hidden under the beautiful appearance of the dry golden lotus.

However, eating flowers is more like icing on the cake, not giving me charcoal in the snow. Because the nutrients in flowers are not much higher than the usual fruits and vegetables and food. Take star flower peony, for example, some merchants claim that the "rich" lysine content is as high as 0.5%to 0.8%, but the lysine content in ordinary soybeans can easily reach more than 2.5%. And vitamins, according to reports, the vitamin B in each 100 grams of peony flowers can be as high as 160 mg, which seems to be higher than the content of 110 mg/100 grams in broccoli, but it should be noted that the peony flower in this report is baked Dry petals, and the 100 grams of broccoli can be with the heavy water.

In addition, eating flowers is not a simple matter, because many flowers are toxic!

Although the cuckoo is good, be careful and poisonous

The reason why flowers are poisonous is because of plants, flowers are also extremely precious treasures. The gorgeous flowers are not easy to mess with. As an important organ for breeding the next generation, of course, plants must invest a lot of resources to operate, and herbivores will not let go of such delicious parts. Therefore, it usually contains a large amount of toxins such as alkaloids in the flower parts, and even the flowers that can usually be used as vegetables contain some toxins, such as ligain containing lover. Not to mention, for example, azalea contains fatal toxins such as sheep flowers. Because eating azalea, cattle and sheep and even poisoning are common things, so the rhododendron has the names such as sheep flowers and sheep. Therefore, it is best not to sting the special parts of these plants. In terms of, all kinds of flowers such as the dry golden lotus in the plate are still beautiful decorations. If we want to obtain nutrition, we still go to the food market in the vegetable market and the fruits and fruits and Vegetables, after all, you want to find enough nutrition in these flowers, which is tantamount to seeking fish. This article comes from the magazine of "Knowledge is Power". The original title "Golden Lotus: The Sunshine Places Emerging Mustard".

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