Author: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Zhu Sha
At the end of the year, there are many parties, and friends who accidentally eat too much are prone to spleen and stomach heat, and it is easy to have breath, burp, and belch. Horseshoe cake is a fragrant and delicious snack - heat, liver, phlegm clear snack, can help you clear a year, eat takeaway heavy spices of the greasy stagnation. The following is to introduce you to the most distinctive and popular in Guangdong, the top ten top snacks, if you are in Guangdong, do not miss.
When it comes to horseshoe cake, people often have a question about it, why is it called this name, is it related to the horseshoe? Non-also non-also. In fact, the snack "horseshoe cake" has nothing to do with the animal "horse", horseshoe cake is also known as water chestnut cake, because the locals who created it speak Cantonese, water chestnut, Cantonese is also called horseshoe, hence the name. Horseshoe cake is a traditional classic snack in Guangdong, which is said to have originated in the Tang Dynasty and is steamed with sugar water mixed with watercress powder. Its color is yellow, translucent, can be folded but not cracked, plucked and continuous, soft, smooth, refreshing, tough and both, the taste is extremely sweet, and the entrance has some horseshoe fragrance. Historically, the best horseshoe cake steamed from horseshoe powder from Pantang in Guangzhou is the pantang near the Panxi restaurant, where the old Lychee Bay is located. Pantang horseshoe cake also occupies an important position in Xiguan folklore, every New Year's Festival, the locals must prepare Pantang horseshoe cake, which means "immediately ascend". In fact, it is loved not only because of its good intentions, but also because it is sweet and delicious and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification.
Horseshoe, scientific name water chestnut, purple and black skin, white flesh, sweet and juicy, crisp and delicious, can be eaten raw as fruit, but also as vegetables. Rich in nutrition, containing protein, polysaccharides, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene and other nutrients, has the reputation of "underground Sydney", the north is regarded as "Jiangnan ginseng". The phosphorus content in water chestnut is the highest content of all stem vegetables, phosphorus can promote human development, promote the metabolism of sugar, fat, protein three major substances in the body, and regulate acid-base balance.
Water chestnut also has a good health care effect, according to the "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", water chestnut taste sweet cold non-toxic, has the effect of clearing heat, phlegm, elimination of accumulation. "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" contains "Bright Eyes and Ears, Eliminates Yellow Scabies", and "Demateritic Materia Medica" Cloud "Eliminates Hard Accumulation, Cures Jaundice, Except for Five Kinds of Phrenic Diseases". The "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it can be "appetizing, powdered, and thick in the stomach". Chinese medicine believes that water chestnut can clear the heat and dissolve phlegm, make the stomach warm, clear the eyes, and eliminate food and wine.
Folk commonly used skin-skinned water for the treatment of acute gastroenteritis, dry stool, unfavorable urination, blood dysentery and other symptoms, clinically can be used for fever and thirst, phlegm fever cough, sore throat, jaundice, dysentery, polio, constipation and other adjuvant treatment.
Modern pharmaceutical research believes that water chestnut contains polysaccharides, polyphenols, flavonoids, sterols and many other active ingredients, and also contains a heat-intolerant bacteriostatic substance "water chestnut", which is the main component of water chestnut bacteriostatic, in the skin and pulp of water chestnut are present.
1. Antioxidant effect
The polyphenols and flavonoids contained in water chestnut have anti-free radical and antioxidant effects. Studies have found that water chestnut skin water extract has strong antioxidant activity, which is comparable to carrots with strong antioxidant activity in common vegetables.
2. Bacteriostatic effect
Experimental studies have shown that the skin and pulp of water chestnut have bacteriostatic effects, and have a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Among them, the bacteriostatic effect of water chestnut peel extract is better, and the bacteriostatic effect on Staphylococcus aureus is the best.
3. Anti-cancer effect
Water chestnut has an anti-cancer effect. In the process of screening traditional Chinese medicine, the Shanghai Cancer Prevention and Control Research Collaborative Group found that various preparations of water chestnut have inhibitory effects on cancer cells in animals; the Singapore Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine has also introduced that eating water chestnut can assist in the treatment of esophageal cancer. Studies have found that water chestnut peel extract can play a role in blocking nitrosamine synthesis and eliminating nitrosamines, thus having a certain effect on inhibiting cancer.
4. Other functions
In addition, the water chestnut, known as "winter and spring good fruit", is cold and cold, can clear lung heat, has the effect of moisturizing lung phlegm and treating lung fever cough. In the season when respiratory infectious diseases are frequent, the consumption of water chestnut also has the effect of preventing and treating respiratory diseases such as meningitis, whooping cough, and acute laryngitis. Water chestnut decoction can also diuretic and drainage, and can be used as a good food therapy for patients with urinary tract infection.
Brown sugar horseshoe cake
material:
120g of horseshoe powder, 100-200g of brown sugar (servings increase or decrease according to personal taste), about 3 bowls of water (about 600ml).
Preparation steps:
(1) Pour 1 bowl of water into the horseshoe powder and stir until the horseshoe powder is completely melted, the spice spoon has no sense of obstruction, and set aside.
(2) Pour 2 bowls of water (about 400ml) into the pot, bring to a boil, maintain the low heat, cook the brown sugar until melted, then turn off the heat and set aside. (Slowly add brown sugar a little bit, stirring while cooking to avoid sticking to the pan.) ）
(3) Mix the horseshoe powder pulp evenly, pour it into the brown sugar water, stir while pouring, let the pulp and brown sugar water fully fuse, stir until translucent, and the spoon can feel blocked. (It is best to stir to a semi-solidified gel with a little clear gel.) If you want the horseshoe cake to be made more chewy, you can add horseshoe grains at this step. ）
(4) Bring water to a boil in a large pot, add horseshoe cake paste and steam for 20-25 minutes.
(5) After baking, soak in cold water to let it de-mold faster, so that it will be better sliced, and a portion can be enjoyed by 3-4 people as an afternoon snack.
efficacy:
Clears the stomach and intestines, eliminates accumulation, and detoxifies the liver. The following two types of people can eat some brown sugar horseshoe cake.
People who often stay up late, the eyes are easy to itch, red, or dry mouth, which is caused by liver fire, or the damp and hot poison of the liver and gallbladder. Students who stay up late every day and don't take a good nap, eat a piece of horseshoe cake during tea breaks, and work in the afternoon is not so easy to fatigue.
1. Suitable for food
It is best consumed in children and patients with fever. It should also be consumed when the body is edematous, the urination is unfavorable, or the urination is short. People with unsolved or hot and humid jaundice may reduce symptoms. Chronic tracheitis, cough and phlegm, dry throat and sore throat, indigestion can moisten the throat and clear throat.
2. Avoid eating
Due to the cold of water chestnut, women should use caution during menstruation, spleen and stomach deficiency, blood deficiency, and blood stasis. Pediatric enuresis and diabetics are also not suitable for consumption.
Review expert: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Ye Yingxia
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