It is the king of wild vegetables in July. Eating leaves without fruit contains far more calcium than milk. Few people have eaten it.

It is now the end of June, and it will soon be July, the hottest day. The extremely hot summer is often called "bitter summer", which is very difficult weather. This kind of weather not only makes people think about food and drink, but also makes people angry easily. Therefore, many people have less fish and meat on the table and are replaced by a variety of vegetables that remove dampness and clear heat, such as balsam pear, towel gourd, wax gourd and other gourd vegetables. In South China, the weather is more humid and hotter. In addition to melons and vegetables, people also like to eat a special kind of wild vegetable. People eat leaves instead of fruit, because its leaves are more valuable than fruits.

This kind of wild vegetable is Chinese wolfberry leaf, and its fruit is Chinese wolfberry. Chinese wolfberry is a kind of food and medicine, which often appears in people's teacups and dining tables, with the effect of clearing away heat and clear eyes. Many professional growers have planted Chinese wolfberry, especially in Ningxia, where Chinese wolfberry is a local specialty crop. But Chinese wolfberry leaves are not taken seriously, after farmers pick Chinese wolfberry, wolfberry leaves are thrown away as waste.

In fact, the leaf of Chinese wolfberry was a kind of nourishing wild vegetable in ancient China, and it was greatly praised in the Book of Agricultural Administration: "the head of Chinese wolfberry (leaf) picks spring and summer and autumn, and the hungry have enough to eat."

Chinese wolfberry leaves can be picked in spring, summer and autumn, especially in summer, which grows best and is also known as the king of wild vegetables in July. Although few people eat it in the north, it is a common wild vegetable in the vegetable market in the south, and Cantonese people especially like it. The main way to eat is to make soup, pig liver soup, lean meat soup, pig soup can be added to it, the entrance has a little bitterness, but the aftertaste is slightly sweet, refreshing and fragrant, very appetizing. Chinese wolfberry leaves not only have the effect of clearing liver and eyesight of Chinese wolfberry, but also have the effect of tonifying blood and deficiency, calcium and strengthening muscles and bones, and have high nutritional value.

After the detection of researchers, Chinese wolfberry leaves are very high in protein, phosphorus, iron and calcium, especially very high in calcium, with a calcium content of 1300 mg per 100g, which often has a good calcium supplement effect. If compared with milk, the calcium content is 10 times that of milk, far more than milk, because 100 grams of milk contains about 130 milligrams of calcium. Therefore, if you are not in the habit of drinking milk, you can eat more Chinese wolfberry leaves, which can also play a good calcium supplement effect.

In China, most of the people who eat Chinese wolfberry leaves are from Guangdong and Guangxi, while few people in the north eat it. In fact, Chinese wolfberry leaves have long been a kind of health food abroad, and Koreans and Japanese love to eat them. Readers, have you ever eaten Chinese wolfberry leaves?