Although ants are small, they are rich in nutrition. It has been discovered by scientists. The protein content of ants is as high as 48.6%, which is 16 times that of milk and 38 times that of eggs. It contains 28 kinds of free amino acids, 8 of which are essential for human body), vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin B 1, vitamin E and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, manganese, selenium and zinc. It also contains many bioactive substances. "Formic acid" in ants is a good medicine to stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite: "Formosa" has precious medicinal value. Its nourishing power exceeds the same amount of Millennium wild ginseng, nourishing liver and kidney, and has a strange curative effect on various debilitating diseases. Ants are praised by modern scientists as "a treasure house of micro-animal nutrition" and "a natural medicine processing factory". The nutrient solution processed with edible black thorn ants as the main raw material has been approved by the Ministry of Health as a new resource food.

Diet therapy and medicine of ants. It has existed since ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, both Tiangong and Liu Yao's Lingbiao recorded the collection of ant larvae to make sauce for the emperor. Kongomaru used by Han people to treat weakness of muscles and bones. It is made by grinding ants into powder and refining honey into pills.

After the initial acid, ants are slightly salty and spicy, and the acid enters the liver, kidney and lungs. Gong is good at nourishing liver and kidney and regulating lung meridian. Ants run around, activating blood. Gentle and lasting. It also has the effects of protecting liver, diminishing inflammation, nourishing yin, strengthening yang, stimulating appetite, strengthening spleen, caring skin, resisting aging and enhancing human immunity.