Can you still eat garlic and ginger after sprouting? Will you get angry if you eat too much?

Garlic, ginger is a common seasoning supplies in our life, so many people will buy a pile of garlic, ginger at home standby, but sometimes improper storage method, garlic and ginger is easy to sprout, so garlic, ginger germination can still eat? Will you get angry if you eat too much?

Can ginger and garlic germinate and still be eaten?

When plants encounter adverse environmental conditions during their growth and development, some will temporarily stop growing. This phenomenon is called dormancy. Such as bud, bulb, tuber vegetables mature, the body accumulated a large number of nutrients.

Protoplasm changes, metabolic levels decrease, growth stops, water transpiration decreases, respiration slows down, and all life activities enter a relatively static state in order to increase resistance to adverse environments. Vegetables with dormancy period germinate when they come out of dormancy period and meet suitable growth environment, which makes their tuber weight reduce and quality decrease.

Ginger and garlic in the germination process, only consumed nutrients, resulting in ginger, garlic petals wilting, withered, nutritional value greatly reduced, but not like potatoes in the germination process will produce toxic substances. Therefore, sprouted ginger and garlic can still be eaten, but because of their nutritional consumption, the edible value will be greatly reduced.

warm reminder

Garlic stored in a cool and ventilated place indoors can be eaten after germination, but garlic stored in a place where sunlight shines will turn green when it germinates, thus producing alkaloids. It is best not to eat it.

2. How to preserve onions, ginger and garlic?

Vegetables cannot be stored without environmental temperature, humidity and oxygen, and the preservation of onions, ginger and garlic is no exception.

onion

Onions are mainly dried. Onions sold in the general market have been dried after harvest. After buying home, remove old leaves, sick leaves and diseased plants first, and decide whether to continue drying according to the degree of dryness and wetness. About 7 into dry, single layer placed in a dry and ventilated place, storage period should pay attention to heat, moisture.

Jiang

Ginger is divided into old ginger and tender ginger. Old ginger is not suitable for refrigeration, but can be placed in a ventilated place or sand. The tender ginger should be wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator.

garlic

Garlic can be stored in a mesh bag, hanging indoors in a cool, ventilated place, or in a perforated earthenware jar. It was suggested that tin foil wrapped onions, ginger, garlic preservation, but also a very good way.

Tin foil can isolate external moisture and oxygen, can also prevent moisture evaporation of vegetables themselves, to ensure that onions, ginger and garlic do not mold, do not germinate, do not dry. It should be noted that do not clean onions, ginger and garlic before wrapping tin foil, and wrap them tightly.

Third, the efficacy of garlic and ginger

1. The effect of garlic

(1) Sulfur-containing compounds in garlic have strong antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and inhibit and kill a variety of cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses.

(2) Elements such as germanium and selenium in garlic can inhibit the growth of tumor cells and cancer cells, and the population with the lowest incidence of cancer is the population with the highest selenium content in blood.

(3) Garlic can effectively inhibit and kill bacteria and viruses such as Helicobacter pylori that cause gastrointestinal diseases, remove gastrointestinal toxic substances, stimulate gastrointestinal mucosa, promote appetite and accelerate digestion.

(4) Garlic can promote insulin secretion, increase the absorption of glucose by tissue cells, improve human glucose tolerance, and rapidly reduce blood sugar levels in the body. And can kill all kinds of bacteria induced by infection diabetes, thus effectively preventing and treating diabetes.

2. Taboo of garlic

(1) Avoid garlic when diarrhea occurs.

(2) Avoid eating garlic on an empty stomach to prevent acute gastritis.

(3) Avoid excessive garlic consumption.

(4) Avoid long-term consumption of garlic.

(5) Avoid external use, so as not to cause skin chapping.

(6) Some people have a special reaction to garlic, so if you feel uncomfortable after eating, you should avoid eating it.

3. The effect of ginger

(1) Cooling by perspiration

Gingerol in ginger has a certain stimulating effect on the heart and blood vessels. Eating ginger can speed up blood circulation, open pores, increase the amount of perspiration, and take away the waste heat in the body with sweat, which has a certain heatstroke prevention effect.

(2) Remove the cold

The weather is cold in winter, and the cold is hard to prevent. Ginger is a traditional cold medicine in China. The body contaminated with cold, drink ginger syrup, drive out the body cold, but also warm the body, prevention and treatment of winter colds.

(3) Strengthening spleen and stomach

Summer often eat cold food, although there is the effect of heat dissipation, but at the same time it will also lead to excessive cold qi in the spleen and stomach, palpitations, nausea and other symptoms, eating ginger helps warm the spleen and stomach, in case the disease worsens seriously.

(4) Prevention and treatment of gastroenteritis

In summer, bacteria grow actively and easily contaminate food, causing acute gastroenteritis. Appropriate to eat some ginger or ginger and boiling water brewing tea, can play a role in the prevention and treatment of gastroenteritis. It is mainly the capsaicin and gingerene in ginger that have the effect of sterilization.

(5) Remove the cold

The weather is cold in winter, and the cold is hard to prevent. Ginger is a traditional cold medicine in China. The body contaminated with cold, drink ginger syrup, drive out the body cold, but also warm the body, prevention and treatment of winter colds.

(6) Strengthening spleen and stomach

Summer often eat cold food, although there is the effect of heat dissipation, but at the same time it will also lead to excessive cold qi in the spleen and stomach, palpitations, nausea and other symptoms, eating ginger helps warm the spleen and stomach, in case the disease worsens seriously.

(7) Prevention and treatment of gastroenteritis

In summer, bacteria grow actively and easily contaminate food, causing acute gastroenteritis. Appropriate to eat ginger or ginger and boiling water brewing tea, can play a role in the prevention and treatment of gastroenteritis. It is mainly the capsaicin and gingerene in ginger that have the effect of sterilization.

4. Ginger cannot be eaten with any food

1. Rabbit meat

Rabbit meat cold, sour taste, and ginger partial hot, bitter taste, both in taste, physique are greatly different, and cold and hot eating together easily lead to diarrhea, it is not suitable for matching. Therefore, when cooking rabbit meat should not add ginger.

2. Leek

Chives warm, can warm the kidney, spleen and stomach, qi management blood. Eat more leeks, can nourish the liver, strengthen the spleen and stomach qi. The benefits of eating leeks are many, but it is best not to put ginger in boiled leeks, because leeks put ginger sour.

3. Celery

Celery is our common ingredients, it not only has rich nutrition, but also has a certain medicinal value, it can nourish essence and qi, blood and spleen, cough and diuresis, blood pressure sedation and so on, very beneficial to health, highly respected by people. But do not add ginger to boiled celery, because celery with ginger has salty bitterness, affecting the taste.

4. Raw fish

Early ginger and fish are opposed to each other. When cooking fish, put some ginger can go fishy and fresh, but put ginger too early, the protein of fish extract will affect ginger, so that ginger can not play the role of fishy.

IV. Will garlic and ginger get angry if they eat too much?

1. Garlic

Garlic belongs to lily family plants, spicy, warm, spicy. Liver disease patients should be cooked with, containing vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C, etc., its extract has antibacterial, antiviral, softening blood vessels and other effects. Helps eliminate liver fire.

2. Ginger

(1) Ginger is divided into two parts, ginger meat and ginger skin, the two medicinal pharmacology is very different: ginger meat is hot, ginger skin is cool. Usually stew soup cooking, ginger try not to peel, so as not to get angry; but if suffering from a cold, want to drink a cup of brown sugar ginger water to alleviate the disease, ginger had better peel.

(2) Ginger is hot, and ginger brown sugar water will have an effect on vomiting caused by cold or stomach cold; but for symptoms caused by hot cold or heatstroke, ginger can only "add fuel".