Source: Jiang Qingshu
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[Preface]
As one of the nutritional products for women's body and beauty, bird's nest can be said to be widely praised in the market, and everyone knows that the main ingredient of bird's nest is actually swallow's saliva.
Although the ingredients are indeed a bit "disgusting", they can't stand its high nutritional value, and the price of bird's nest is still very expensive, so generally only the wives of rich families will buy a lot of them and put them at home, and eat them whenever they want.
Of course, in addition to the real bird's nest, there is also a kind of "bird's nest" known as the plant world, and we can know how rich the nutritional value of this kind of thing will be from the nickname given to it on the market.
However, for rural people, this kind of thing is not valuable, but something they hate, basically every rural person will take this kind of thing off after seeing it, and then throw it into the trash together.
However, this kind of worthless thing in the eyes of rural people can be sold for 60 yuan a pound in the city, so what exactly does this kind of thing called "plant bird's nest" by the world refer to? Why can it be sold so expensive?
["Peach Blossom Tears" on the Peach Tree]
Peaches are a fruit that many people like to eat, and they are crunchy and sweet with a lot of water, but as the root of peaches, the peach tree, every time it is harvested, it will produce a slimy gelatinous substance - peach gum.
Peach gum, also known as peach blossom tears, is a reddish-brown and yellow-brown substance secreted by the bark of the peach tree when it is subjected to external forces or suffers from pests and diseases.
At the beginning, the peach gum secreted by the peach tree is indeed red and yellow, crystal clear, like an amber without impurities, and its fluidity is relatively strong, when it flows out of the bark hole, it is strip-shaped, and as time goes by, these peach gums accumulate together, and they become clumps, and they are very viscous to the touch.
If the external environment is very hot and dry, these sticky peach gum will become a piece of QQ elastic gelatinous substance, generally speaking, most of the peach trees in the mainland will have this phenomenon, especially in the humid and rainy areas in the south, which is the most prone to this phenomenon.
In order to ensure that its own nutrients are not lost, peach trees will secrete a large amount of macromolecular polysaccharides when they perceive a wound in the epidermis to promote the healing of wounds.
Although the production of peach gum can help peach trees heal wounds, it will also have negative effects on the peach trees themselves, such as not conducive to the later growth of peach trees, and may affect the adult life span of peach trees, and even lead to a decrease in peach production.
Originally, fruit farmers planted peach trees on a large scale in order to harvest more peaches and sell them for more economic gains, but the "stress reaction" of the peach trees themselves reduced the fruit yield.
In this case, the presence of peach gum makes the fruit growers feel useless, at least not harmful to them, and because the main component of peach gum is macromolecular polysaccharides, it is the most likely to attract various types of small bugs.
In particular, after the fruit has grown, the small insects attracted by the sugar in the peach gum may not only come for the peach gum, but also to eat delicious peaches.
Those peaches that have been bitten by insects, even if the appearance has not changed much, but the inside may have been laid by the insects a bunch of eggs have already been laid by the insects, and even if the eggs are not laid inside, it is difficult to sell them for a high price after ripening.
Therefore, when the fruit growers find that the peach trees secrete peach gum, they will clean them as soon as possible, and those peach gums that are picked will be thrown in the orchard everywhere, and no one will pick them up, after all, peach gum is a worthless thing for them.
【Hard-to-handle peach gum】
Why is it that peach gum, which is regarded as useless in the countryside, can be sold for a high price of 60 yuan a pound in the city? Is there any special reason for this?
In fact, it is very simple that the reason why peach gum is not accepted by rural people is mainly because their understanding of peach gum is too one-sided, and they only know that the production of peach gum is not conducive to the growth of peach trees and peaches.
However, after peach gum entered the city, people's attention shifted to the nutritional value of peach gum itself and the positive impact on human health, so in order to let themselves have a healthy body, they were willing to spend dozens of yuan to buy a pound of peach gum back to enhance their immunity.
Everyone understands that peach gum is not a difficult thing to produce, it can be said that as long as there is a peach tree, there will be peach gum, why is it sold so expensive?
First of all, we need to know that it is not only the volume of the commodity that affects the price, but also the additional costs incurred when handling the product, although peach gum is not a difficult thing to handle.
But there are too many of them, and it is also a very troublesome thing, not to mention that these peach gums can be secreted no matter where they are in the peach tree, so fruit farmers actually need a lot of energy to deal with peach gum.
And because the texture of peach gum is very sticky, so when picking, there is still a certain degree of difficulty, as long as the peach tree secretes peach gum, it is impossible to exist only in a small area, if we go to the peach orchard to pick peaches, we can find that basically every peach tree that secretes peach gum, almost the entire tree is covered with peach gum.
It is precisely for this reason that the staff who pick peach gum want to clean up all the peach gum of the whole tree, it is really difficult, and the manufacturer will increase their wages in order to improve the work efficiency of the staff, and the increase in the cost of picking will naturally affect the sales price of peach gum.
Another aspect of cleaning peach gum is also a very difficult thing, it takes several processes to really clean the peach gum, the staff in the picking peach gum, need to first clean out the dirt and impurities on it, and then wash the peach gum with water many times until it becomes crystal clear.
After thorough washing, it is also necessary to screen the size and quality of the peach gum, and finally dry the peach gum in a pile under the sun, which generally takes several weeks or more than half a month to really dry, so some manufacturers will use a machine in the drying stage to evaporate the moisture inside the peach gum in order to improve efficiency.
When the peach gum is completely dried, it can be officially put into the market, because the production of a large quantity, so the preservation is also a large additional cost, but the difficulty of preservation is not great.
After all, peach gum without moisture is the most suitable food for long-term preservation, and after we buy it, as long as it is not placed in a damp and cool place, there is basically no need to worry about the rot or deterioration of peach gum.
The reason why the price of peach gum is expensive has a lot to do with its complex processing process and high labor costs, of course, in addition to the nutritional value of peach gum itself, it is also an important factor affecting its sales price.
【Nutritional value of peach gum】
Peach gum as a natural secretion of the plant gelatinous substance, has a very high nutritional value, according to the relevant medical records, peach gum is a natural Chinese medicine, has a certain medicinal value.
Peach gum can prevent diseases, because it contains a variety of monosaccharide polymers, as well as unsaturated fatty acids, for middle-aged and elderly people with high blood lipids, it has a good effect, not only to help them lower blood lipids, people with normal blood lipids eat, but also to prevent high blood lipids.
Peach gum also has a good health care effect on the human intestines and bladder and other important organs of the human body, and ordinary people can effectively prevent bladder and intestinal diseases when they eat it.
When we need to use a lot of brain, we can also cook some peach gum at home to eat, because peach gum is rich in galactose, and when the human body absorbs these galactose, it can be converted into cerebroside in the nervous system to provide sufficient nutrients to the brain.
Because peach gum can act on the intestines, it can naturally promote the peristalsis of the human stomach and intestines, for people with constipation and gastrointestinal problems, peach gum can help us moisten the intestines and relieve constipation.
For girls, peach gum also has a very important role, that is, it can beathe and nourish the skin, peach gum contains a large amount of plant collagen, so that our skin is whiter as a whole.
At the same time, it can also promote the speed of cell metabolism in the human body, and it may be difficult to see the effect from the outside after a short period of intake, but after eating for a while, we can find that our skin will become delicate and shiny, and it can be said that we are several years younger in an instant.
In addition to these effects, peach gum also contains a lot of protein, when we use peach gum, we can supplement the protein needed by the body for exercise, and have a certain effect on strengthening the body.
Peach gum is also an important raw material for cosmetics and skin care products, and there are many research institutions that like to add some peach gum to the raw material pool, which can be used both internally and externally, and the two-pronged approach can bring the nutritional value of peach gum to the extreme.
However, we also need to pay attention to one point when eating peach gum, that is, to avoid excessive intake of peach gum, because peach gum has been dried, so we need to soak it before proceeding to the next step.
Every time we eat, we only need to take out 5-15 grams of peach gum, and the weight of peach gum can be increased by 10 times after soaking, that is, about 50-150 grams, and the weight after soaking should not exceed 150 grams.
We only need to eat once or twice a week, in fact, it has met the nutrients our body needs, if we consume too much peach gum, it may cause our digestive system to be overburdened, which will affect the intestinal absorption of other nutrients, and may cause symptoms such as bloating and diarrhea.
【Conclusion】
In general, peach gum is indeed a very high nutritional value of food, the high sales price is very reasonable, of course, if there are people who plant peach trees at home, you can see if your peach trees secrete peach gum, if there is, you can pick and save it, and give it to your family to eat.