The yellow rice on the thorn tree is rare and nutritious, but farmers are afraid of it.

In our impression, rice and wheat grow on the ground, but today we would like to talk about a kind of "rice" that grows on thorn trees. Some old farmers are happy to hear the "rice" on the tree. after planting rice for so many years, they really don't know what rice grows on the tree. This kind of rice growing on trees is what we usually call "soap horn rice". When it comes to Zaojiao, we should be no stranger. Zaojiao tree is a more common tree in our country. And every summer, Gleditsia sinensis will produce many flaky acacia. As we all know, Gleditsia can be used as a raw material for making soap, and farmers use their juice directly as laundry liquid. However, what many people may not know is that the rice grains in Gleditsia are actually a kind of food with great nutritional value.

Zaojiao rice, also known as Saussurea seed, is a kind of food with high nutrition and low fat and low protein, rich in plant dietary fiber and soft waxy taste. Generally speaking, Zaojiao rice is generally used to boil sugar water to drink, drink red jujube, Chinese wolfberry, Tremella boil together, especially clear and moisturizing. Young women eat soapy rice can have the role of self-cultivation and shaping, to prevent obesity, while high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia of the three high patients also have greater benefits.

Zaojiao rice not only has edible value, but also has extraordinary medicinal value. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Zaojiao rice can also be used to treat constipation, ringworm and other diseases. In some places, farmers have also found that Zaojiao rice is particularly good for pregnant women, especially those young mothers who sit during the month, eating the right amount of soaphorn rice can be milked.

Zaojiao rice is good, but the acquisition of Zaojiao rice is not as direct as rice and wheat harvested by agricultural machinery. Instead, it needs to be artificially peeled off from the acacia and then dried, so you can imagine how low the yield is. Moreover, not all Gleditsia sinensis can produce Gleditsia sinensis, and most of the Gleditos that can bear rice are mainly produced in Yunnan, China. Its acacia is crooked, and the "rice" inside after peeling is yellow. This kind of soapseed rice is very rare and rare in other areas, so few people have eaten it. Actually, it tastes pretty good.

Although the edible and medicinal value of Zaojiao rice is worth affirming, farmers are somewhat "afraid" of it. Why? This is because the soap horn tree is a kind of thorn tree, its trunk and branches are covered with sharp thorns, and it is so hard that it is no joke if it hits it. When we were young, we liked to climb trees, but adults never let us climb soap horn trees for fear that we would be stabbed. Every year, when Zaojiao rice is mature, no farmer will climb a tree to pick it, basically with a bamboo pole, or wait for it to fall naturally, and then go to the ground to pick it up.

Unfortunately, Zaojiao rice can not be produced as much as rice in the whole country, and it is almost difficult to form related industries. If farmers find acacia that can bear rice around their homes, they should pay attention to cherish it!