Is monkey leg bracken?

In modern life, people increasingly like to eat plants that used to be regarded as wild vegetables, because according to modern nutrition research, most wild vegetables have very strong health care effects. it is a good recuperation method for people who are used to eating big fish and meat. there are many kinds of wild vegetables, such as monkey leg and bracken are very popular species. So is monkey leg bracken?

Monkey leg and bracken are not the same dish, but they are both ferns.

Monkey legs look a lot like bracken at first glance, but in fact there is a gap between them. Monkey leg vegetable is called hoof bracken, also known by locals as green stem, porphyra yezoensis, monkey leg. This kind of wild vegetable can be seen in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and other regions. Xiaoxinganling has the largest number of monkey leg vegetables.

Pteridaceae is a variety of European ferns of the genus Pteridaceae, which is distributed in all parts of China, but mainly in the Yangtze River basin and north, subtropical regions, and other tropical and temperate regions of the world.

The most delicious part of monkey leg dish is the unstretched bud, which looks like a bud and curls up into a ball. This part is the most tender and sweet. Monkey leg dishes taste slightly bitter, after boiling water blanching to remove a lot of bitterness, cooking with fat meat together with the most delicious. Monkey leg vegetable can absorb a lot of fat, taste more delicious, fat meat to eat fat but not greasy, the whole dish is seamless, very perfect.

The edible part of bracken consists of undeveloped young leaf buds and tender stems in the upper half, and its roots are rich in proteins, carbohydrates and other trace elements. The cellulose in bracken can promote intestinal peristalsis and reduce gastrointestinal fat absorption.