What are the main producing areas of dried lilies? How to choose?

Dried lily has high medicinal value, such as detoxification, regulating spleen and invigorating stomach, promoting dampness and eliminating accumulation, calming heart and mind, promoting blood circulation and so on. So, what are the main producing areas of lilies? The difference between dried lilies and fresh lilies? How much is a jin of dried lilies? How to choose dried lilies?

What are the main producing areas of dried lilies?

According to the records of Liliaceae, China is the hometown of lilies, and there are 42 species of lilies in China. Distributed in China's main producing areas: mainly produced in Hunan, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

Specific growth locations: Yixing, Jiangsu, Longhui, Hunan, Lanzhou, Gansu, Kunming, Yunnan.

Second, the difference between dried lilies and fresh lilies?

1. Fresh lily is a natural food without any post-processing. Soft, white, glossy, no obvious marks, scales thick and plump, no rotten spots, injury spots, insect spots, yellow rust spots. It smells faint and tastes a little bitter.

2. Fresh lilies are suitable for cooking all kinds of dishes, such as "stir-fried beef with lilies" and "fried celery with lilies". It is a good stir-fried vegetable with light taste and refreshing taste.

3. Dried lilies are made by post-processing of fresh lilies: bulb → selected material → cleaning → peeling, color protection → hot soup exterminating enzyme → rinsing → to drain surface moisture → loading → hot air cycle drying → selection and grading → packaging → sealing → storage → finished products.

4. After post-processing, dried lilies are easy to preserve and use, and remove their own bitter taste, so they are suitable for making soup, sugar water and tea. Therefore, fresh lilies and dried lilies are just eaten differently, and their nutritional values are similar.

Third, how much is a jin of dried lilies?

Supermarkets are usually 140-240 jin, according to the quality of lilies. However, in the purchase of farmers, the general special sulfur-free only 30-80 jin, special-class sulfur 35-70 or so, this needs to be determined according to the market. When the market is good, the third-class goods with sulfur are more than 30, when the market is bad, the special class without sulfur is only about 30-40.

Fourth, how to select dried lilies?

When buying lilies in the supermarket, you should pay attention to two points: first, the fresh lilies in the bag should be shiny, without black and brown spots, a large petal thick, delicate texture, and good appearance; second, there can be no strange smell after opening.

For the purchase of dried lilies, there are two misunderstandings among the people, thinking that the whiter the better, the bigger the better, in fact, this is wrong. The color of dried lilies should be white, or slightly yellowish or yellowish.

In addition, dried lilies should be hard and brittle, and the broken section should be horny and smooth. And the color is too white dried lily, may be bleached with sulfur, used in medicine will have side effects.

As far as medicine is concerned, small scales are better than large ones. Dried lilies bleached with sulfur are susceptible to moisture and will taste sour when cooked, so be careful when buying them, she said.