Why is it good to eat flowers?

Flowers are served with a unique flavor. The most commonly eaten are sweet-scented osmanthus, yellow flower and chrysanthemum. Only sweet-scented osmanthus can make dozens of flower foods, such as sweet-scented osmanthus sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus wine, sweet-scented osmanthus tea, sweet-scented osmanthus dew, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, candied sweet-scented osmanthus and so on. People often use chrysanthemum into japonica rice and rock sugar to boil porridge. Chrysanthemum helps medicine with the help of the nature of rice grain, which is a delicacy of clearing heat and soothing wind, benefiting qi and promoting fluid. Fried fish fillet with chrysanthemum, fried quail eggs with shredded chrysanthemum and shrimp with chrysanthemum are all known as chrysanthemum delicacies.

Stewed meat with peony is made into broth, which has the laudatory name of "gravy peony". Rose jujube cake made of rose and red jujube, water chestnut, walnut kernel, white sugar and lard is not only unique in flavor, but also suitable for kidney deficiency, wheezing cough, hemoptysis, spleen and stomach pain and so on. Roses boiled tofu, red and white, fragrant smell. Hibiscus flower and cardamom boiled together, have the good name of "Xuexia soup". Lotus into meat stir-fried into "lotus meat", is a famous dish. Fried magnolia flakes, fragrance, fresh crisp and tender. Stewed squid fillet with plum blossom becomes "plum blossom squid soup", which is a first-class seasonal dish. In addition, pumpkin, orchid, jasmine, peach, rhododendron, gardenia, pea, pear, kapok, crabapple and other flowers are edible.

Flowers in line with the requirements of food science, but also in line with people's eating habits. Nutrition studies have also proved that petal cells are rich in protein, starch, fat, sugar, vitamins and minerals, which can strengthen the body.

The top ten famous flowers in China can be served, and play the role of dietary therapy. Orchids can clear the lungs and detoxify, resolve phlegm and cough, and can be used to make orchid belly shreds and orchid chicken shreds. Chrysanthemum has the function of soothing the wind and clearing the eyes, nourishing the liver and calming the liver. It is used to make chrysanthemum vermicelli and snake soup, which is effective for colds and sores. Lotus is often used in the treatment of heatstroke, hematemesis, insomnia, etc.; peony can activate blood circulation and regulate menstruation; rose has the function of removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and activating menstruation; plum blossom can restrain dysentery, antipyretic and cough, but also deworming; camellia is used for scald, blood dysentery and other diseases; rhododendron is used for asthma, amenorrhea and rheumatism; narcissus has the effect of detumescence and detoxification, clearing heat and relieving pain, dispelling wind and blood stasis; sweet-scented osmanthus can remove phlegm and dissipate blood stasis. Others, such as lentil flower, can cure vomiting and diarrhea; albizzia flower can help you sleep. All these flowers can be eaten by people.

Fresh flowers have appeared in many parts of our country, such as chrysanthemum Phoenix bone and red chrysanthemum in Cantonese cuisine; sweet-scented osmanthus balls in Shandong cuisine; hibiscus chicken in Beijing cuisine; lotus chestnuts, jasmine soup, dried scallops of osmanthus, chrysanthemum bass in Shanghai cuisine.