With the improvement of people's living standards, people now pay more and more attention to eating and eat more and more ingredients. Although it was unpopular before, with the change of time, it was gradually brought to the table for everyone to taste. What I want to share with you today is that after sweet potato leaves, another kind of "pig food" has become popular, similar to sugarcane, which is both medicine and food. If you eat it, you are amazing. Let's see if you know it.

Speaking of sweet potato leaves, everyone is familiar with it, especially for rural people. It can be said that every household has the habit of planting sweet potatoes. Sweet potato is one of the cheap and delicious vegetables. Moreover, its leaves are edible and it is a delicious vegetable. But for rural people, sweet potato leaves are generally fed to chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and sheep raised at home. However, what Bian Xiao wants to tell you today is not sweet potato leaves, but another popular "pig food" after sweet potato leaves. This kind of food is similar to sugarcane, and can be used as medicine or edible. Come and have a look.

The picture above is the ingredients to share with you today. Does it look like sugar cane? However, careful friends will find that although it is similar to sugarcane, it is an unreasonable ingredient. It is called acid jar stick, also called acid holder, and its scientific name is Polygonum cuspidatum. It is called Polygonum cuspidatum because it has tiger spots and can be used as a crutch, hence the name. Although the appearance is unremarkable, the nutritional value is quite high, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting gallbladder function, eliminating jaundice, expelling wind and promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It can be said that it is a typical example of both medicine and food.

Although the city people don't know much about the "pig food" behind the sweet potato leaves, the dolls who grew up in the countryside are too familiar with it. I still remember that when I was a child, I didn't have snacks to eat, so I picked all kinds of game, and acid straws were one of them. It is often seen in rural areas, on the edge of soil ridges and on the roadside. It can be used not only for raw food but also for cooking. It is a unique food in rural areas. Besides, it has certain medicinal value.

Although it looks like sugarcane, it doesn't lose any taste. It is full of water and tastes sweet and sour. When you eat it in summer, you will have a feeling of quenching thirst. So children in rural areas like to eat it as a snack to satisfy their hunger.