Where is the specialty of chili? What kinds do you have? When are they all on the market?

I don't know since when, Chinese people like spicy food more and more. In China, the planting area of pepper has surpassed that of radish and tomato, second only to Chinese cabbage, and has become "the second largest vegetable in China". So where are chili peppers a specialty? What kinds do you have? When will they all be on the market?

In China, chili peppers are mainly produced in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Henan (Xichuan County), Jize County, Hebei Province and Tuoketuo County, Inner Mongolia.

Main species

Vegetable pepper (variety) lantern pepper

The plants are stout and tall. Leaf moments orbicular or ovate, 10-13 cm long. Fruiting pedicel erect or drooping, fruit large, near globular

Shaped, cylindrical or flat spherical, multi-longitudinal groove, top truncated or slightly sunken, base truncated and often slightly inward concave, taste not spicy and slightly sweet or slightly pepper flavor.

It is cultivated in both north and south of China, and the vegetable pepper usually sold on the market is a variety.

Chaotian pepper (variety)

There are many dichotomous branches in plants. Leaves 4-7 cm long, ovate. Flowers are often solitary between bifurcations, pedicels erect, flowers slightly drooping, Corolla white or purplish. The pedicel and fruit are erect, the fruit is small, conical, about 1.5 (- 3) cm long, red or purple after maturity, the taste is extremely spicy.

It is cultivated in both north and south of China, and is often cultivated as bonsai among the masses.

Cluster raw pepper

Plants can be up to 1 meter high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, petiole slender. Flowers are often solitary in the lower part of the branch, and several flowers (up to 8-10 flowers clustered with several leaves) are at the top of the branch due to extreme shortening of internodes. The pedicel is thin, erect or obliquely ascending, and the flower is slightly drooping. Fruiting pedicel stout, erect, berry finger-shaped or conical, 4-10 cm long, slightly arched, erect on pedicel, red when ripe, very spicy.

It is cultivated in both north and south of China, usually for bonsai or a small amount for vegetables or seasonings.

Market time of chili peppers:

The harvest of chili peppers in the south usually begins from June to July and ends in November.

Northern chili peppers mature in September and October of the lunar calendar. The open-air cultivation in the north will begin to mature at the end of August and end in the middle of October. But if it is planted in a shed, it can be planted all the year round.

Because it takes 25-40 days for pepper fruit to mature from flowering to commercial fruit (green ripening period), and different varieties need different days, it takes 25-30 days for early-maturing varieties and 35-40 days for late-maturing varieties. It takes 45 to 60 days from flowering to physiological maturity, but 60 to 100 days from flowering to physiological maturity in winter protected areas with very low temperature, and about 110 days for some late-maturing varieties.

Due to different regions, the harvest time of chili peppers must be different. Only when we have a general understanding can we choose the right time to harvest chili according to the local conditions such as temperature. When the pepper is ripe, the pepper ripening time will be introduced to you. I hope it will be helpful to you.

There are ten advantages to eating chili.

Eating spicy food not only makes people feel happy, in fact, chili itself is rich in nutrition and has many health effects. Professor Shen Yanying, vice president of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, pointed out that, first of all, the variety and content of vitamins in chili peppers are extremely rich. In a small pepper, vitamin a, b vitamins, vitamin c, vitamin e, vitamin k, carotene, folic acid and other vitamins are all included. Secondly, chili peppers also contain minerals such as calcium and iron, as well as dietary fiber. Combined with various studies at home and abroad, the benefits of eating chili peppers are as follows:

Appetizer and digestion. Chili can promote the secretion of digestive juices and increase appetite.

Warm the stomach and ward off cold. According to Food Materia Medica, chili can warm the spleen and stomach. If you encounter cold vomiting, diarrhea, stomachache and other symptoms, you can eat some chili peppers appropriately.

Promote blood circulation. Chili peppers have certain medicinal properties, so they can "remove wind, sweat, phlegm and dehumidification." Explained by modern medicine, it can promote blood circulation and improve cold fear, frostbite and vascular headache.

Skin beauty. Chili can promote hormone secretion and improve skin condition. Many people think that eating spicy food will lead to acne, but it is not the problem of chili peppers. Only if you love acne, you will add fuel to the fire after eating chili.

Reduce fat and lose weight. Capsaicin can accelerate fat decomposition, rich dietary fiber also has a certain hypolipidemic effect.

Relieve pain and dissipate heat. Hot pepper sex temperature, can reduce body temperature through sweating, and relieve muscle pain, so it has a strong antipyretic and analgesic effect. American studies have found that capsaicin can reduce the neurotransmitters that convey pain, making people feel less about pain.

To fight cancer. Capsaicin accelerates cancer cell death without damaging healthy cells.

Protect the heart. Eating chili peppers regularly can effectively delay the development of atherosclerosis.

Lower blood pressure. The latest animal experiments in the UK have found that capsaicin can lower blood pressure, but the exact mechanism is not very clear.

It's good for diabetes. Capsaicin can relieve some symptoms of type 1 diabetes.