Known as "blood to see sorrow", once as a rescue dish, now into a "health dish", hometown people like to eat!
"The people take food as the sky, and food takes nourishment as the first." And vegetables are an indispensable food on our table every day, and now people have a good standard of living and want to eat any vegetables.
It can be said that there are many kinds of vegetables, but despite this, many people come to the supermarket to buy vegetables and still have no way to start, do not know what vegetables to buy, and feel that there are no particularly delicious vegetables.
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If we had been young in the past, we would not have been so happy now, and not only would we have very few vegetables to eat, but we would often have to pick some wild vegetables to fill our stomachs and eat them as a rescue dish.
One of the wild vegetables is the wild vegetable we often eat when we were young, it is a common amaranth in the countryside, which is an annual herb of the genus Amaranth in the euphorbiaceae family.
Amaranth is distributed almost all over the country, its whole plant is soft hair, when I was a child, I often picked it to make vegetables to eat, and the collection of young leaves can be directly fried, stuffed, soup, etc., and the taste is delicious.
Amaranth is rich in nutrients, it is rich in protein, which contains protein that is more fully absorbed by the human body than milk, and the carotene contained in it is more than 2 times higher than that of nightshade fruits.
It also contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, which have the effect of improving immunity, so it is called "longevity dish" and is used as a signature dish by many farmhouse restaurants.
In the folk, amaranth is not only a wild vegetable, but also a commonly used hemostatic medicine in the folk, with the effect of hemostasis, and has the effect of hemorrhage, such as bleeding from external injuries, vomiting blood, blood in the urine, blood in the stool, etc., so it has the title of "blood sees sorrow".
Most wild vegetables have a certain medical effect, amaranth also has a high medicinal value, which not only has the effect of stopping bleeding, it also has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, astringent and dampness, and has effect on dysentery, enteritis, collapse leakage, skin eczema, carbuncle boils, dermatitis, poisonous snake bites and so on.
Can't imagine that this kind of amaranth that was once a desert vegetable, there are so many roles, precious value, rich in nutrition, and now it has become a "beautiful lettuce", everyone likes to eat, if you can still meet the amaranth in your hometown, don't miss it, hurry up and pick it and take it home.