Is snow vegetable a pickle?

Snow vegetables are not pickles. Snow cabbage is also called snow red, stem and leaves are common vegetables. Pickles are vegetables pickled with salt and other seasonings. It has a strong salty taste and can be stored for a long time.

1. Snow vegetables

Snow red, an annual herb, mustard varieties, mustard leaves and stems pickled, is snow red (also known as snow Weng), commonly known as spicy vegetables. Leaves deeply lobed, margins shriveled, flowers bright yellow. In northern China, autumn and winter leaves will turn purple, hence the name "snow red." In southern China, because it is rare to see the purple "snow red", it is also misrepresented as "snow red". It has the effects of detoxification and detumescence, appetizing digestion, warming middle qi, improving eyesight and diaphragm. Indications carbuncle swelling pain, chest full stuffy, cough phlegm, hearing loss, gum swelling, constipation and other diseases.

II. Pickles

Pickles can be regarded as a kind of Chinese culture. Production of raw materials are cucumber, pepper, soy sauce, all kinds of vegetables, salt and so on. Different kinds of pickles use different raw materials. Most of them are locally sourced, some places use mustard,"some places use cabbage, some places use radish, some places also use other vegetables to pickle, and some places use plum dried vegetables. The reason why pickles are so widespread in China is that there is no refrigerator in ancient times, and there are no anti-seasonal vegetables. It is impossible for people to eat vegetables in winter, so pickles were invented.

It can be seen that the difference between snow vegetables and pickles is quite big. In addition, the stems and leaves of snow red can also be pickled and eaten.