How to Make Mustard Essential Oil and the Difference Between Potherb Mustard and Mustard Greens
Do you know the process flow and technical key points in the production and processing of mustard essential oil?Are potherb mustard and mustard greens the same? Let's find out together.
A deep-processing method for mustard greens:
Step 1: Harvesting: 32-35 days after sowing mustard greens, when they have grown to the 7th large leaf, have begun to bolt and form hearts, and the leaves curve slightly inward in a semi-clasping manner with petioles bending inward, harvesting begins, that is, the mustard greens are cut at the point below the heart together with four leaves;
Step 2: Cleaning: Remove impurities from the mustard greens harvested in Step 1, rinse with water, then blanch in salt water at 80~90°C for 10 seconds, remove, rinse clean with fresh water, and drain for later use;
Step 3: Baking and crushing: Bake the mustard greens treated in Step 2 to obtain dried mustard greens, place in a crusher and crush to 20~80 mesh to obtain fine mustard green powder;
Step 4: Making extracted essential oil: Mix with water at 6~10 times the total mass of the mustard greens, heat and boil for 1~3 hours, filter, take the filtrate, concentrate to obtain a extract, and after drying, make into 20~80 mesh extracted essential oil granules;
Are potherb mustard and mustard greens the same
Potherb mustard is snow mustard greens; they are simply two different names for the same vegetable.
In northern China, mustard greens turn purplish-red in autumn and winter, hence the name "xuelihong" (snow red). In southern China, because the purplish-red "xuelihong" is rarely seen, it has also been misreported as "xuelihong" (snow mustard).
Mustard family vegetables are often made into pickled products for consumption. Because they contain a large amount of salt after pickling, patients with high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis should be careful to eat less to limit salt intake. In addition, people with excessive internal heat, patients with heat-type cough, sores, hemorrhoids, bloody stool, and eye diseases should not eat potherb mustard.