Amaranth is panicum miliaceum, which likes temperature and heat resistance. Generally, it grows in wet soil and sunny places such as weigou. Its root system is developed and its ability to adapt to the environment is very strong, but amaranth is afraid of waterlogging, and amaranth can be seen everywhere in rural areas.
(Wild Amaranth growing naturally)
The efficacy of amaranth
Amaranth is rich in vitamins needed for human growth, and the contents of trace elements such as iron and calcium are also higher than many vegetables. Amaranth is also rich in various dietary fibers. Regular consumption of amaranth can promote intestinal digestion, accelerate metabolism and enhance physical fitness. Eating amaranth is known as "longevity dish". Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium. Children can eat some amaranth to supplement calcium and help teeth and bones develop. No, as soon as I picked it back, I immediately blanched it with boiling water, fried a little pepper oil with garlic, and a plate of fashionable wild vegetables was served on the table.
(cold garlic and amaranth)
Because amaranth also has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and stopping dysentery, eating amaranth can also play the role of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels.
It is the best time to eat amaranth again. Friends, take your tools and go to the mountains to pick wild amaranth. While enjoying the fun of picking, I also exercised, and there are natural, healthy, green and pollution-free amaranth to take home. Why not?
Amaranth is called Simicai in my hometown. Its leaves are purple and green, which are human, not wild vegetables, but they were all used for pigs and no one ate them.
Amaranth always bears purple or light green striped seeds. Take the seeds back, put them in a basket, rub them in the sun, and after sowing enough seeds in the next year, fry the rest into rice flowers and cook them with brown sugar to make glutinous rice candy.
Therefore, in the eyes of former rural people, amaranth is pig food, which has no nutritional value and is of little use. Only a few trees are planted on the edge of the ground.
I don't know when amaranth became popular in cities, so rural people near the city planted it on a large scale, and the tender one cost two to three yuan.
Amaranth tastes good when it is tender. Blanch with boiling water, add salt, pepper and minced garlic, and then choke with hot oil. Light green with red pepper gives people an appetite.
Some people say that in June, amaranth is an egg, and in July, the golden color of amaranth remains unchanged. I think amaranth is a seasonal vegetable. June and July are the most tender time of amaranth, so it has no astringency and fiber, so it is the best.
Amaranth also has aliases, such as Yan Laihong, Lao Laishao and tricolor amaranth. This dish prefers warm to cold, and it is easy to bolting and blossom at high temperature. The temperature in the south is moderate, and it is between 23 and 27 degrees here for a long time.
Just conducive to the growth of amaranth. In rural areas, large-scale cultivation is sold as commercial vegetables, so June and July are also the best sales periods. In the later stage, the roots of amaranth are thick, which can reach 80 150 cm.
During this time, people eat nothing except raising seeds and feeding pigs. Amaranth is the most common dish, but it still has its unique function.
Amaranth is cold, can dispel cold and heat, clear liver and improve eyesight, promote defecation, and have a bad stomach. People with loose stools are not easy to eat more. It's ok to eat once or twice occasionally.
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Amaranth, which we locals call Xi Amaranth, can be made into "Xi Amaranth Cake" and "Xi Amaranth Sugar" after harvest because of its high nutritional value, which is deeply loved by rural people. Therefore, there is a saying that "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth gold will not be exchanged".
"June amaranth as an egg" refers to the fresh eating period of amaranth. There are three kinds of local amaranth: green, purple and color, which are rich in nutrition, regardless of color. The content of iron and calcium is high, but amaranth is not noble because of its beauty and health. It is easy to transplant and survive. Rural people generally don't want to plant amaranth in fertile fields, but sow or transplant it at the foot of the field and in front of the house, which is the best feed for pigs and poultry in rural areas. So even in the vegetable market, its price is very low.
According to the season, late spring and early summer are the best time to eat amaranth. During this period, Xi amaranth leaves are fresh and tender, the vegetable body is soft and smooth, the taste is rich, the entrance is sweet, and it has the effect of moistening the stomach and clearing away heat. We often use it to make cold salads. The method is to wash the amaranth first, then blanch it with boiling water, add some seasonings such as refined salt, garlic paste, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, or simply put some fermented milk.
Some people will chop up amaranth, mix it with wheat flour and bake it into cakes, which will have a unique taste. At the same time, Xi amaranth can also be fried with meat dishes such as shredded pork and eggs, and processed into hot-fried dishes with full color and flavor. For children and the elderly, the favorite thing is to mix rice with red amaranth soup.
Red amaranth and white garlic are fried together, red and white, amaranth is waxy and garlic-scented, and white rice soaked in red soup suddenly turns purple, which gives people an intellectual appetite.
"Amaranth gold remains unchanged in July" refers to the flowering and fruiting period of amaranth. The grain of Xi Amaranth is called Amaranth Valley, which is mainly used for dipping sugar as a precious cake in the New Year.
Harvest amaranth grains, dry them in the sun, stir-fry them into bubbles, boil them with sweet sugar, white sugar and lard, then stick them in a movable wooden box while they are hot, open the wooden box after cooling, and cut the amaranth grains into blocks. If any family in the village fried the amaranth valley, the whole village would smell particularly fragrant. You can't use a spatula when frying, but rinse it with sorghum.
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Although plants and trees are abundant in summer, there are few seasonal wild vegetables, except purslane, which is this amaranth. The old saying "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not exchanged for gold" generally refers to this wild vegetable. When the leaves are fresh and tender in June of the lunar calendar, the fields are everywhere. In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, amaranth bears seeds, and the taste of leaves drops, so it is difficult to find edible amaranth, which is expensive.
Amaranth is panicum miliaceum, and its leaves are covered with soft thorns. You can feel a little tingling in your mouth after cooking, so amaranth is also called "thorn amaranth". Amaranth is not only a popular seasonal wild vegetable, but also a traditional Chinese medicine. Its medicinal value was first recorded in the Ming Dynasty's Herbal Medicine of Southern Yunnan, which can "eliminate insect accumulation, kill white worms and relieve flatulence." Wash the wind of itchy skin and wandering skin. "
Chinese medicine believes that amaranth is cold, sweet and light, and enters the lung and liver meridians. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling, stopping bleeding and cooling blood. It is often used to treat gingival bleeding, hemorrhoids, hematochezia, gastrointestinal bleeding, dysuria, goiter, insect bite and snake bite. Modern pharmacology has a deeper understanding of the functional components of amaranth. For example, the roots of amaranth contain spinach alcohol, saponins, flavonoids and other active ingredients, which have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antimalarial and liver-protecting effects.
In the folk, amaranth root is also used in the treatment of kidney calculi, which has a good effect on removing stones with short retention time and 0 transverse diameter. 150px。
There is indeed this saying, especially the older generation will say "June amaranth, put eggs; In July, amaranth, gold does not change "and other folk sayings, it can be seen that people are very aware of its rich nutritional value!
It is understood that the edible history of amaranth has been thousands of years! Although some of them are picked in the wild now, most of them are cultivated and eaten artificially!
Let's briefly discuss some use values of amaranth for reference only:
First, the edible history of amaranth is very long!
It is understood that the word "amaranth" was found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which shows that amaranth has been eaten by people for thousands of years!
There are many kinds of common amaranth, including red amaranth, green amaranth and colored amaranth.
Second, the medicinal value of amaranth
It is understood that the roots, fruits and whole grass of amaranth can be used as medicine. Generally, it has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, stopping dysentery and preventing constipation. The specific performance is as follows:
1, which has the function of enriching blood and hematopoiesis. Amaranth is rich in iron, which can promote the synthesis of human hemoglobin and effectively improve anemia symptoms. Very suitable for women to eat after childbirth!
2. It has the effects of detoxifying, losing weight and preventing constipation. Amaranth is also rich in dietary fiber, which can effectively discharge human intestinal garbage, thus preventing constipation and taking advantage of some people's weight loss needs.
3. Promote the development of human bones and teeth. Very suitable for infants. Especially babies fed with milk, milk powder and other milk substitutes.
4, can prevent muscle spasm. Amaranth can maintain normal myocardial activity and reduce the occurrence of muscle spasm to some extent.
Third, the edible value of amaranth
Amaranth is very nutritious and contains a lot of lysine, vitamin C, iron, calcium and other ingredients, so it is also called "longevity vegetable". It can be regarded as the best of vegetables. Among them, red amaranth is the best!
Amaranth consumers: not only infants and teenagers, but also very suitable for anemia patients, women and the elderly.
However, for stomach cold, spleen deficiency, diarrhea and pregnant women, try to eat less!
I also planted some in my own small vegetable garden this year. Amaranth can be cold and delicious! I won't introduce its specific food!
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Amaranth is the favorite vegetable in summer. We have red and green amaranth here. The color of leeks will fade when they are fried. Amaranth is not a wild vegetable here, but the vitality of amaranth is still tenacious, and these barren places behind the corner can grow. Here, small farmers will talk to you about amaranth.
When I was a child, my favorite food in summer was fried amaranth with garlic, especially with a few dried peppers. Mom also likes to put amaranth in noodles. Amaranth will fade and noodle soup will turn red. But amaranth is delicious. Amaranth survives better. This year, you plant a tree and let it grow by itself. When autumn grows to more than one meter high, there will be many kinds of seeds, which will be scattered on the ground by themselves. A lot of small amaranth will grow here next year. It can be said that it is well planted.
I only ate amaranth leaves in the north, and later found that amaranth stems can also be eaten. There is a famous dish in the south called "moldy amaranth stalk", which is made of amaranth stalk. Mainly fermented by amaranth stalks, it tastes very delicious. Moreover, it must be mentioned that the amaranth stem marinade soaked with amaranth stem is more effective. To make authentic stinky tofu, amaranth stem brine is the most indispensable, and the stinky tofu soaked with amaranth stem brine will taste more delicious.
Amaranth leaves, amaranth stems, amaranth seeds and amaranth roots are also very useful. Amaranth seeds also have a great effect. Amaranth seeds can supplement protein, improve digestion, prevent heart disease and care hair. Amaranth seeds are eaten as whole grains in many places, ground into powder and mixed with flour.
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Amaranth is made into a stinky dish in Shaoxing, Ningbo. It smells bad, but it tastes not only fragrant but also appetizing.
The specific method is to remove the leaves from the amaranth growing to a height of more than one meter, cut the amaranth stick the size of sausage into pieces about 4 cm, then wash it and soak it in water for three to four days. After it stinks, pour out the water, mix it with salt, put it in a sprinkling jar and sprinkle about five kilograms of salt, then suffocate, put a certain amount of water on it, open the lid of the jar after stopping for more than ten days, and touch it with your hands. So how to eat? It's simple. Put the amaranth in the jar in a bowl, and be careful not to wash it, or it won't stink. Put some distiller's grains, then pour vegetable oil and steam in a steamer. You can eat it.
However, this rotten amaranth is a hair care product. Although it tastes delicious, people with inflammation should not eat it, because it will aggravate the attack of inflammation after eating. In particular, cancer patients should never eat it, and cancer will recur immediately after eating it. This is very spiritual. Don't try this kind of thing, or you will regret it.
Amaranth stems and leaves are eaten as vegetables; Leaves are mixed with various colors for viewing; Roots, fruits and whole herbs are used as medicine, which has the effects of improving eyesight, facilitating defecation and eliminating cold and heat.
Amaranth can invigorate qi, clear away heat, improve eyesight, prevent miscarriage, promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity and prevent muscle spasm. It also has the functions of promoting blood coagulation, increasing hemoglobin content, improving oxygen carrying capacity and promoting hematopoiesis. It can also reduce weight and clear the body, promote detoxification and prevent constipation.
Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium easily absorbed by human body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity and prevent intramuscular spasm. At the same time, it is rich in iron, calcium and vitamin K, which can promote blood coagulation. As the saying goes, "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not changed." This shows its high nutritional value.
Some people in rural areas say that "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth gold will not be exchanged". What does amaranth do?
Many common sayings circulating in rural areas are the crystallization of human wisdom, but the simple words imply rich philosophy and are still applicable today. Why do amaranths everywhere in rural areas have the saying that "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth will not be changed"?
Amaranth can be seen everywhere in rural areas, and it is also one of the most commonly eaten wild vegetables. People used to be poor and couldn't afford vegetables, so they often ate amaranth to live. With the improvement of people's quality of life, the nutritional value of amaranth has also been discovered, so more and more people like to pick some amaranth to eat in summer. June and July are the time when amaranth grows most vigorously. After July, amaranth will bear seeds and its taste will drop a lot. Therefore, the best time to eat amaranth is June and July every year. Because of its rich nutrition, it will be comparable to the nutrition of eggs, and gold can't be exchanged for amaranth. Of course, the metaphor of gold is to highlight the nutritional value of amaranth.
So what are the nutritional values of amaranth? Amaranth is rich in vitamins and trace elements such as calcium and iron needed by human body. The content of calcium and iron is much higher than other vegetables. As we all know, iron in human body is enough to prevent ischemia, and calcium is an important factor to consider whether human bones are strong or not. Amaranth is also called "longevity dish". Amaranth contains a variety of dietary fiber. Eating amaranth regularly can promote intestinal digestion, speed up metabolism and enhance human physique.
Amaranth is suitable for the elderly, children, dieters and ladies. June and July are the vigorous growth periods of amaranth every year. At this time, the amaranth leaves are thick, nutritious and soft, so it can be cold-wrapped in jiaozi. When the temperature is high in summer, the human body will be hot and dry. Amaranth has the effect of cooling blood. Eating amaranth in summer can clear away heat, dry dampness, detoxify and relieve constipation.
The above is my personal opinion on "June amaranth is an egg, and July amaranth is not exchanged for gold". I hope it helps you.
There is a saying in the countryside that "June is an egg, but July is not an exchange of gold". On the one hand, it is said that amaranth is planted during the Dragon Boat Festival, and June and July are just the season to eat amaranth. On the other hand, when other leafy vegetables are green and yellow in June and July, amaranth just fills this gap. Amaranth is rich in nutrition and contains many trace elements, which is very beneficial to human body.
What is the specific effect of eating amaranth?
Amaranth, as a vegetable, can invigorate qi, clear away heat, improve eyesight, prevent miscarriage and benefit the large intestine.
The calcium contained in amaranth is easily absorbed by human body and can promote the growth of teeth and bones. Rich in calcium, iron and vitamin K, it can promote blood coagulation.
Amaranth is rich in dietary fiber, which can reduce weight, promote the excretion of intestinal toxins and prevent constipation.
Amaranth leaves contain high concentration of lysine, which is suitable for infants and adolescents, and has a good effect on promoting growth and development, especially for infants fed with milk, milk powder and other milk substitutes.
In fact, many children don't want to eat other green leafy vegetables, but basically they won't refuse to eat red amaranth, because red amaranth soup is purple and looks good. My children like to make rice with its soup.
Although amaranth has so many benefits, it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and people who often have stomachache should not eat more. In addition, amaranth is photosensitive, and some people will have allergic reactions such as purple and itching after eating it. It is recommended not to go out in the sun for a long time after eating, or you can choose to eat at night.