Nutritional value and therapeutic effects of golden needle vegetables

Golden needle vegetable is what we often call day lily. While everyone likes it, let us learn more about it:

Introduction of Lily

Day lily, also known as day lily, is a traditional vegetable that people love to eat. It has golden color, rich aroma, and tastes fresh and tender.

Economic value of daylily

Daylily is an important economic crop. Its flowers are steamed and dried, and processed into dried vegetables, namely daylily or daylily, which are sold far and wide at home and abroad. It is a very popular food, and has the effects of strengthening the stomach, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling. The roots can be used to make wine; the leaves can be used to make paper and weave straw mats; the stalks can be dried to make paper coal and fuel.

Nutritional value of daylily

Daylily has good brain-boosting and anti-aging effects because it is rich in lecithin, which is a component of many cells in the body, especially brain cells. It plays an important role in enhancing and improving brain function. It can also remove deposits in the arteries and has special effects on symptoms such as inattention, memory loss, and cerebral artery blockage. Therefore, people call it "brain-boosting vegetable". According to other studies, daylily can significantly reduce serum cholesterol levels, which is beneficial to the recovery of patients with hypertension and can be used as a health vegetable for patients with hypertension. Daylily also contains active ingredients that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells, and rich crude fiber can promote the excretion of stool, so it can be used as a food for preventing and treating intestinal cancer.

Therapeutic effects of golden needle vegetables

1. There are not many vegetables that can resist aging and are delicious and nutritious, but daylily has all these characteristics.

Characteristics of high-quality and low-quality daylilies

Characteristics of High-Quality Daylily

Clean, fresh, tender, not wilted, not dry, the core has not yet opened, and there is no debris. The strips are plump, yellow-white or golden in color, with high oil content, strong elasticity, and pure and rich aroma.

(1) Appearance: Light yellow or golden yellow in color, fresh and free of impurities, with tight, long, uniform and strong strips.

Characteristics of poor quality daylily

(1) Appearance: The color is dark yellow with a slight reddish tint. The strips are of different lengths and thicknesses, mixed with foreign matter, and may even be black in color, moldy, and deteriorating.

(3) Odor: Smoke, sulfur or mold.

Related groups

1. It is especially suitable for pregnant women, middle-aged and elderly people, and those who are overworked;

Precautions

Fresh daylily contains a substance called colchicine, which generates colchicine oxide in the process of human metabolism. Colchicine oxide has strong irritation to the human respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract. Its main symptoms are nausea, stomach pain, diarrhea, and severe hematuria. Therefore, it is not suitable to eat fresh daylily directly. In principle, it is recommended to steam and dry the daylily in preparation for cooking. When eating, consumers are advised to soak it in clean or warm water several times before eating, so as to remove residual harmful substances such as sulfur dioxide. Fresh daylily should be blanched in water or steamed at high temperature, and then soaked in water for two or three hours before eating.