Fenghua taro is a traditional excellent pollution-free agricultural product in Fenghua and Ningbo. Taro is nearly spherical, brown in appearance and pink at the top, weighing more than 1 kg, and the largest can reach about 2.5 kg. Its quality characteristics are mainly characterized by large skin, fine meat powder without gluten, waxy and delicious. Taro can be eaten in a variety of ways, each with its own flavor, which can be roasted, steamed, eaten raw, fried, cut into white, poured in soup and boiled frozen. If it is baked and steamed, it is fragrant and powder like chestnut; If you cook soup, it will be as smooth as tremella and as glutinous as glutinous rice balls. Fenghua taro is not only delicious, but also a healthy food with rich nutrition and no pollution. According to Kuliger's research, in fresh taro bulbs, water accounts for 82.25%, fat accounts for 0. 14%, protein 1.78%, nitrogen-free extract 14.04%, crude fiber 0.64%, ash 0.88% and Li Jialu 662. In dry matter, fat accounts for 0.8%, protein 10. 18%, nitrogen-free extract 80.32%, Li Jialu 3785. According to amino acid determination, Fenghua taro contains 18 kinds of amino acids, of which 1 1 kinds of amino acids account for more than 0.5%, and the aspartic acid content reaches 1.445% at the highest (see the attached table for details). The unique quality of Fenghua taro makes it enjoy the reputation of "going through three customs and six docks and counting Fenghua taro". 1992 Fenghua taro was rated as an excellent product at the first agricultural fair in China. 65438-0996 Fenghua was jointly named "Hometown of Taro in China" by the State Council Development Research Center, China Agricultural Society and China Specialty Newspaper. Nowadays, Fenghua taro has become a necessary dish for banquets. Duck taro, chicken taro, gourd taro and yellow croaker taro are well known.

Fenghua peach

Our city is the hometown of peaches in China, and Fenghua peaches are known as "the first in China", which is a historical affirmation of the traditional famous fruit of peaches. The area of peach cultivation in the city is 2,750 mu, of which Xikou, Xiaowangmiao and Da Qiao are/kloc-0.32 million mu, 0.74 million mu and 0.36 million mu respectively. There are 7 peach professional villages with an area of over 1,000 mu, and key villages with an area of over 500 mu 1 village. At present, peach has formed 25 early, middle and late maturing peach varieties supporting systems, such as Zaolulu, Xueyulu, Elaeagnus angustifolia, Lakeview Honey Dew, Taqiao, Yulu and Yingqing, and the peach supply period is more than 120. With the improvement of peach quality and the expansion of popularity, the product sales market has been further broadened, from Hangzhou, Ningbo, Zhoushan and other places to Shanghai, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Nanjing and other capital cities. 198 The total output of peaches was 20,300 tons, with a total output value of 67 million yuan. At present, the main problems in peach production are: small scale of farmers' operation, low commodity volume, insufficient investment in peach orchards, slow transformation of low-yield peach orchards, rapid decline of peach trees caused by long-term continuous cropping in old peach areas, affecting business benefits, thin peach skin, inability to withstand storage and transportation, lack of ideal packaging and preservation technology, small fruit shape of some varieties, poor appearance quality, affecting sales, weak technical force and low scientific and technological content. From 2000 to 2003, it is planned to develop 7,500 mu of peaches, reaching 35,000 mu after 2003, with a total output of 30,000 tons and a total output of over 100 million yuan. On the basis of continuing to do a good job in peach demonstration parks such as Xikou, Wangxiaomiao and Da Qiao, we will speed up the development of Langtao District in Chun Hu Town, and focus on cultivating 20 peach professional villages in the demonstration parks to achieve the goals of large-scale production, intensive management, scientific management, improved varieties and high-quality fruit.

Bamboo shoots of thunder-sheep tail

There are 264,800 mu of bamboo forests in the city, including Phyllostachys pubescens 196 10000 mu, and the total storage of Phyllostachys pubescens is 35.4 million mu, including 68,500 mu of intensive bamboo forest. 70,000 mu of miscellaneous bamboo (including 26,000 mu of Phyllostachys praecox and 0.5 million mu of Phyllostachys praecox). Bamboo is mainly distributed in Xiaowangmiao, Banxi, Xikou, Shangtian, Louyan, Dayan, Dongli and other towns, covering an area of more than 20,000 mu, with a total bamboo forest area of/kloc-0.929 million mu, accounting for 72.8% of the city. The total income of bamboo shoots and raw bamboo in the city is between 0.8-/kloc-0.0 billion yuan, and bamboo shoots are the leading industry with the most advantages and development potential in the mountainous areas of our city.

Cactus Melaleuca Cake

Broccoli Melaleuca Cake is a local product of Fenghua Xikou, and it is also called the three treasures of Fenghua cuisine with Fenghua taro and peach.

The ancestor of Melaleuca Cake is Wang Yongshun, which was founded in Guangxu of Qing Dynasty for four years and has a history of 1878 years. Its raw material is mainly flour, with heavy sugar, sesame, peanuts and a proper amount of moss powder. After twelve cake-making processes, especially the last baking, we must attach great importance to it and cook it properly before we can make food with good color, smell and taste. Melaleuca cake is about 2 cm thick, with at least 27 pieces overlapping. Crispy and mellow, crisp and abnormal, moderately sweet and salty, and fragrant on the teeth and cheeks. In 1984 Ningbo pastry appraisal, Xikou Melaleuca cake ranked first. During 1986, Prince Sihanouk and his wife visited Xikou. After eating it, they even praised it as a palace.

At present, there are many shops in Xikou town that make thousand-layer cakes, and almost all of them are selling now, and the packaging is becoming more and more exquisite, and almost all of them are hung with authentic brands. Here, the "Wang Maolong" brand of Xikou and the "Zhang Qian Zhu Fei" brand produced by Xikou Grain Bureau are the first to be promoted.