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What are the benefits of putting ginger in cooking?
The benefits of putting ginger in cooking are as follows:

(1) Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the functions of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, and expelling toxin, which is beneficial to the opening of hair follicle pores and the discharge of sebum secretion.

(2) Putting ginger in cooking can deodorize and neutralize the cold in the dish;

(3) Wipe the bottom of the pot with ginger slices when frying fish, which can also prevent the fish from sticking to the pot.

Ginger (scientific name: ginger. ) is a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae. Rootstock, yellow-green flowers, pungent smell. Plant height 0.5-1m; The rhizome is stout, multi-branched, fragrant and spicy. Leaf blade lanceolate or linear lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; Ligule membranous.

The total pedicel length of ginger is 25 cm; Spike conical; Bracts ovate, light green or yellowish at the margin, with a small apex. Calyx tube is about 65438 0 cm long; Corolla yellow-green, lobes lanceolate; The central lobe of the lip is oblong and obovate. In the central, southeast and southwest of China, Xianfeng, Huolong, Laifeng, Tongshan, Yangxin, Sun Yicheng, Xianning and Daye provinces are widely planted. It is also widely cultivated in tropical Asia. Roots are used as medicine, and fresh or dried products can be used as cooking ingredients or made into pickles and sugar ginger. Aromatic oil can be extracted from stems, leaves and rhizomes, and can be used in food, beverage and cosmetics.

Ginger has underdeveloped root system, poor drought resistance and waterlogging tolerance, and is particularly particular about water requirements. Too dry or too wet soil during the growing period is not conducive to the growth and expansion of ginger slices, and it is easy to cause diseases and rot.