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More and more rich people go to the countryside to buy mulberry leaves to eat. Can mulberry leaves really be eaten? Does it taste good?
Speaking of mulberry leaves, many people are familiar with it, but many people know that mulberry leaves can be used for boiling water and mulberry kernels can be eaten. However, many people may not understand that mulberry leaves can be eaten as vegetables. In recent years, many city people have gone to the countryside to find mulberry leaves to eat, such as making cold dishes, scrambled eggs with mulberry leaves, vegetable cakes and soup.

Yes, many people will think that cooking with mulberry leaves tastes ok. Mulberry leaves newly grown in spring are tender, less bitter and taste better. In fact, they are rich in nutrition. In addition, mulberry leaves can also be processed into tea, mulberry leaf powder, mulberry leaf rice wine and so on.

As for how to eat mulberry leaves, after all, it is a kind of leaves. When cooking, you can blanch and soak them before cooking. What are the benefits of eating mulberry leaves? It can attract many people to eat. Mulberry leaf is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, clearing away lung heat and moistening dryness. When the autumn wind is dry, drinking mulberry leaf water or eating scrambled eggs with mulberry leaves can moisten dryness and relieve cough.

CCTV's "Traditional Chinese Medicine" column once reported a story about Mr. Tang drinking mulberry leaf tea all the year round to save his life in Yingkou, Liaoning. When Mr. Tang was in his forties, he got a strange disease and coughed up a lot of blood. After that, he cooked with mulberry leaves for three meals a day, cooked with mulberry leaves and boiled with mulberry leaves, which made his condition better, and he was able to exercise in the park every day and lived happily.

Look at 1990, the fourth population census in China. It is found that 2.84% of the people in Pishan County of Xinjiang are over 70 years old, and the highest age is 120 years old. Mulberry trees are widely planted in this area, and locals like to drink mulberry leaf tea and eat mulberries.

Modern medical research on mulberry leaves found that mulberry leaves contain high content of flavonoids, alkaloids, phytosterols, γ -aminobutyric acid and polysaccharides, which is beneficial to human health.

It should be said that many people see the medicinal value of mulberry leaves, so they will go to the countryside to pick mulberry leaves for cooking.

Mulberry can be planted in many places in our country. Mulberry also has a strong production capacity. It likes light. When many farmers grow mulberries, their families are angry, so they can pick some mulberry leaves to boil water. For example, in summer, many people boil water to drink. If they have chickens and ducks, they can also feed them with mulberry leaf water. In addition, if conditions permit, farmers can raise silkworms with mulberry leaves to increase their income.

People with cold body and hot body will have different precautions in diet, so buying mulberry leaves depends on the specific situation!