Mulberry is a flowering fruit with thick and juicy meat. In addition to fresh food, it must be processed if it is to be preserved for a long time. The easiest way is to steam dry and make dried mulberries. It can also be made into preserved mulberries. If the washed mulberry is decocted, the juice is taken, honey is added, and the decoction is concentrated until it is thick, which is the mulberry cream, which is a good food tonic and dietotherapy product. In addition, mulberry juice can also be used to cook wine, or mulberry juice can be boiled and brewed into mulberry wine with distiller's yeast rice for drinking.

Mulberry diet has many benefits. It can supplement the deficiency of gastric juice, enhance the digestion and absorption ability of gastrointestinal tract, stimulate gastrointestinal tract and increase the secretion of digestive juice, thus helping digestion and promoting stool excretion. Habitual constipation, postpartum constipation, blood deficiency constipation in the elderly is particularly good.

Mulberry porridge is sweet and nourishing.

Mulberries can be eaten fresh or dry, and porridge is also a good healthy choice.

Mulberry porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh mulberry (30 grams of dried mulberry) and 50 grams of japonica rice.

Method: put the washed mulberry and japonica rice into a pot to cook porridge, first boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire until porridge is finished, and add a proper amount of rock sugar and mix well. Eat breakfast and dinner every day.

Mulberry porridge has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and improving eyesight. It is suitable for dietotherapy of dizziness, insomnia, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, premature gray hair, constipation due to blood deficiency, anemia, etc.

The elderly and infirm are often deficient in liver and kidney and yin and blood, so it is especially suitable for cooking mulberry porridge for the elderly for a long time. For those with premature graying hair and beard, Polygonum multiflorum powder 15g and black sesame (fried) 15g can be added when cooking mulberry porridge, and the effect is better after long-term use.

Cooking porridge with mulberries is sweet, moistens the mouth, enhances appetite, and can receive good nourishing and strengthening effects. The new edition of Materia Medica records: "Mulberry is the first, red is the second, and green is not available." Therefore, it is advisable to cook porridge with purple mulberry, because it contains tannin, and do not cook porridge with iron.