This fruit has no flesh, and some people feel like throwing up when they smell it, yet the wholesale price is as high as 60 yuan per jin

Speaking of China's species, they really are incredibly rich. From daily life to industrial production, many of them come from plants that grow in China itself. Take kitchen items alone: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea are all indispensable in our lives, and without any one of them our lives would lose their flavor. Today I will introduce one indispensable item in the kitchen.

It is rattan pepper (Zanthoxylum armatum, a type of green Sichuan pepper). This rattan pepper really counts as a daily necessity; when we cook in our kitchens, rattan pepper plays an indispensable role.

The rattan pepper tree is a plant that likes sunlight and is also fairly drought-tolerant, but the rattan pepper tree cannot live in waterlogged conditions; standing water will cause the rattan pepper tree to die.

The fruit of the rattan pepper tree is the rattan pepper. This fruit has no flesh at all; raw rattan pepper is hard to swallow, and its smell is strange and even pungent. Some people even say they feel like throwing up when they smell it, yet every household cannot do without it. When cooking, rattan pepper is an important seasoning, especially when making meat dishes or hot pot; add a little rattan pepper and the flavor becomes wonderful.

Every year when the rattan pepper bears fruit, you can smell the fragrance of rattan pepper; even from far away from the tree you can smell the scent of rattan pepper. Some restaurants also specialize in cooking with rattan pepper, such as rattan pepper fish, a signature dish that uses rattan pepper as its main theme.

In fact, this rattan pepper can not only be eaten, but also has great medicinal value. The whole rattan pepper tree is a treasure: the root, stem, leaf and fruit can all be used as medicine, with effects of relieving pain and dispelling cold. The shadow of rattan pepper can be seen in folk remedies for treating some illnesses. For example, when you have a toothache, the older generation of farmer friends living in rural areas will have you hold a rattan pepper against the tooth, and the pain will soon stop. Therefore, in rural households, rattan pepper is almost a must-have in every home.

Rattan pepper can also be made into rattan pepper oil, which is truly both fragrant and numbing, a very flavorful seasoning at home. Not only that, rattan pepper can also be used in industry just like Sichuan pepper, and can be made into lubricants and so on. The uses of rattan pepper are truly immeasurable.

Now the wholesale price of rattan pepper has reached 60 yuan per jin. Rattan pepper mainly grows on mountainous land, and the yield of one mu of rattan pepper is only about one thousand jin, which is why the price of rattan pepper is so high.

Now, with the development of rural mountainous areas, wild rattan pepper trees are becoming fewer and fewer, and most are planted artificially. And precisely because rattan pepper is so popular, quite a few farmer friends who grow rattan pepper have become wealthy.

Although the fruit of rattan pepper has no flesh at all, it is a necessity in every household. Even though the price is high, people still buy it, because it is a seasoning in our lives, and our lives cannot be without flavor.

Dear friends, do you like eating rattan pepper? You are welcome to leave a comment and share your thoughts!