Yunnan Wild Tree Flower Vegetable: Price, Benefits and How to Remove the Bitterness Before Eating
The Yunnan specialty tree flower vegetable is a lichen plant that grows on the branches and trunks of old oak trees in primeval forests, named for its shape, which resembles one blooming flower after another. Tree flower vegetable tastes cool and refreshing, with a dry, fragrant, chewy texture. It contains various components beneficial to the human body, such as pinastric acid, and has a certain antibacterial effect. It is a distinctive delicacy served to guests from afar. So, how much is wild tree flower vegetable per jin? What benefits and effects does eating it have? How can it be prepared so that it is not bitter?
It is understood that the current market price of wild dried tree flower vegetable is about 70-80 yuan per jin.
The Benefits and Effects of Tree Flower Vegetable
Extracts of tree flower have effects against HIV, breast cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer, and relieve pain; they can also improve the various adverse reactions caused by chemical treatment of tumors, such as loss of appetite, vomiting, nausea, hair loss and reduced white blood cells, and so on. In addition, because it is rich in iron, copper and vitamin C, it can prevent anemia, scurvy and vitiligo, and prevent the occurrence of arteriosclerosis and cerebral thrombosis. It also has the following:
1. Reduces insulin resistance, enhances the body's sensitivity to insulin, and helps control blood sugar;
2. Inhibits the accumulation of fat cells;
3. Lowers blood pressure;
4. Enhances immunity.
Who Tree Flower Vegetable Is Suitable For
It is suitable for most people, and is especially suitable for children, women, and people with cancer, low immunity, liver disease, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis, obesity, edema, beriberi, difficult urination and so on.
The Dietary Uses of Tree Flower Vegetable
Tree flower tastes sweet and neutral, is non-toxic, and can be used for hemorrhoids; it has the effects of tonifying deficiency and strengthening the constitution, benefiting the kidneys and fighting cancer, and promoting urination and reducing swelling. The water extract of its fruiting body has an inhibition rate of 98.1% against Ehrlich carcinoma in mice, a 100% inhibition rate against mouse sarcoma 180, and a 90% inhibition rate against Ehrlich carcinoma.
How to Remove the Bitterness
After washing clean, add clean water and soak for 2 or 3 minutes, add a small amount of table salt and baking soda, then bring the water to a boil, throw in the soaked tree flower vegetable, and when the water comes to a boil again, scoop it out; this way the tree flower vegetable is no longer bitter.
How to Eat Tree Flower Vegetable
1. Cold-dressed tree flower
Cut ginger, scallion, cilantro (coriander) and green and red peppers all into shreds, and mince the garlic; add an appropriate amount of salt to the prepared tree flower, then add a small amount of sugar and MSG, add the minced garlic and the shredded ginger, scallion and cilantro, then add shredded green and red peppers or millet chili, add an appropriate amount of rice vinegar, and finally add red oil, sesame oil and ground Sichuan pepper and mix well. It is then ready to eat.
Flavor: numbing, spicy, fresh and fragrant, with a delicate texture, an authentic Yunnan flavor.
2. Tree flower scrambled with eggs
Beat two eggs until smooth, pour them into a heated oiled wok, stir quickly, and when the eggs have set, add the prepared tree flower, then add table salt, chopped scallion and shredded green and red peppers, mix well and it is ready to be taken out of the wok and plated.
3. Tree flower stewed with free-range chicken
As the saying goes, no supplement beats a dietary supplement. Therefore, Chinese cuisine pays great attention to refining and preserving the components of the ingredients during preparation. For example, dishes cooked in clear broth often break down the nutrients in the ingredients into the soup, which not only makes the soup taste fresh and delicious but also makes it easier to absorb and digest, so we often use stewed chicken soup to nourish the body. In this "tree flower stewed with free-range chicken," the tree flower is a kind of fungus, delicious and nutritious, and when stewed together with chicken, it is freshness upon freshness and nourishment upon nourishment.
Ingredients: free-range chicken, tree flower, ham slices, ginger, scallion.
Method:
1> First blanch the washed free-range chicken in boiling water, then put it into a clay pot, add clean water, yellow rice wine, ginger pieces, a scallion knot and ham slices, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours.
2> After it is stewed until done, add chicken essence, MSG, salt and the soaked tree flower, and stew for another 15 minutes.
3> Finally add pepper and it is ready.
4. In addition, tree flower can also be stewed with pork ribs, stewed with trotters and elbow, used in hot pot, clay pot rice noodles, clay pot tofu and so on; as long as you like it, you can eat it any way you want.!