What Are the Common Varieties of Ginger? A Quick Guide to the Main Types
Ginger is a cooking ingredient with a pungent spicy taste, and it can also be eaten fresh or made into agricultural and sideline food products, such as syrup and pickles, so what varieties of ginger are there?
1. The growth habits of ginger
Ginger is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family and the Zingiber genus. The ginger commonly eaten is the pungent aromatic rhizome of ginger. Ginger has many producing areas in China, with the main producing areas including Anqiu, Shandong, Changyi, Shandong, , Tongshan, Yangxin, Echeng, and other places.
Ginger likes fertile, loose loam or sandy loam. It grows poorly when planted in heavy, moist low-lying land, and it also grows poorly in barren land with poor water retention. Ginger has the greatest need for potassium fertilizer, followed by nitrogen fertilizer, and the least need for phosphorus fertilizer.
2. What varieties of ginger are there?
The main varieties of ginger include Laiwu small ginger, Laiwu large ginger, sparse-ring large-flesh ginger, Shannong large ginger No. 2, Shannong large ginger No. 1, Lu Ginger No. 1, dense-ring fine-flesh ginger, Laifeng ginger, Tongling white ginger, Nanshan ginger, Sichuan bamboo-root ginger, and others.
3. What are the main values of ginger?
1. Ginger is an economic crop with great value for development and utilization. It has many uses and can also generate income;
2. Ginger is often used for men's health care. It can play a role in supporting yang, and it also has a certain therapeutic effect on kidney deficiency and impotence;
3. When women who have just given birth are in confinement, having ginger vinegar with meals is beneficial for physical recovery and for feeding the baby;
4. Ginger can also help prevent stomach problems. When food does not taste good or appetite decreases, eating a few slices of ginger or adding a little ginger to dishes can improve appetite and increase food intake. For gastric ulcers, deficiency-cold gastritis, enteritis, and wind-cold colds, ginger can also be taken to dispel cold and induce sweating, warm the stomach and stop vomiting, and sterilize and relieve pain.
However, not everyone is suited to eating ginger. People with a yin-deficiency constitution, those with relatively severe internal heat, and hepatitis patients had best not eat too much ginger, so as to avoid worsening their condition.