What is yellow chive? Understand the five major differences between yellow chive and yellow garlic chive in one article

Yellow chive, also known as chive sprout or yellow chive, is a kind of chive with a yellow color. Because of its smooth, tender and delicious taste and high nutritional value, it is deeply loved by people. Many people like to buy some and stir-fry it with meat. So what is yellow chive? What is the difference from yellow garlic chive?

1. What is yellow chive?

1. Yellow chive is a perennial root herbaceous plant of the order Asparagales, family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae, genus Allium. It is also known as yellow chive. It is about 20-45 cm tall and has many fibrous roots. Its long leaves are flat, with smooth, hairless edges and a yellow-white color. Its appearance is similar to yellow garlic chive. It is currently cultivated in many areas of China.

2. Yellow chive, also known as chive sprout, grows from the same root as chive, but it grows in a lightless environment, and its leaves gradually grow from green to yellow-white, so its price and nutritional value are somewhat higher than those of chive. It can generally be bought all year round, and with the development of technology, it is now also being planted on a large scale in many greenhouses.

3. Yellow chive has high nutritional value and contains rich protein, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium and many other nutrients needed by the human body. Regular consumption can tonify the kidney, strengthen yang, dissipate blood stasis, and so on. It can effectively treat symptoms such as impotence, lumbar pain, and postpartum hemorrhage, and is very suitable for men to eat. However, people with a hot constitution or weak resistance should preferably not eat it.

2. What is the difference between yellow chive and yellow garlic chive?

Difference 1, different family and genus: yellow chive, also called yellow chive, is a perennial root herbaceous plant of the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae, genus Allium, and is a vegetable grown from chive under lightless conditions; yellow garlic chive is a half-year herbaceous plant of the family Amaryllidaceae, genus Allium, belongs to the garlic category, and is the yellow garlic leaf grown from garlic bulbs under lightless conditions.

Difference 2, different appearance: the rhizome of yellow chive is flat, and the base of the rhizome is tender white; the rhizome of yellow garlic chive is round, and the whole plant is relatively thick and fleshy, wax-yellow in color, with occasionally a little purple at the leaf tips.

Difference 3, different nutritional value and effects: yellow chive contains rich protein, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and many other nutrients needed by the human body, and can effectively enhance human immunity, tonify the kidney, tonify the liver, and so on; yellow garlic chive contains allicin, which has a bactericidal effect, and regular consumption can prevent cardiovascular disease, heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and so on.

Difference 4, different taste: yellow chive has a special smell, the same as the smell of chive; yellow garlic chive has a garlic smell and also a chive smell, and tastes a bit pungent.

Difference 5, different price: the market price of yellow chive is generally about 2.5-7.5 yuan per jin, and when expensive it can sell for 10 yuan per jin; the market price of yellow garlic chive is generally about 6 yuan per jin, and when expensive it can sell for about 13 yuan per jin, and when cheap it can sell for 2 yuan per jin.

Overall, yellow chive is yellow chive, a vegetable cultivated from chive under lightless conditions, with the effects of tonifying the kidney and enhancing resistance. Although it and yellow garlic chive are both plants that cannot see light, the two have certain differences in appearance, nutritional value, taste, and so on, so attention should be paid as much as possible when purchasing.