Also a vegetable and also a medicine: "Pumpkin Flower"
Let me tell you about the knowledge of eating pumpkin flowers, which are also a vegetable and a medicine. The specific contents are as follows:
The little-known pumpkin flower, though not an object to adorn our beautiful life, is a gift from nature. It blooms in the morning and closes at dusk, bright as the evening star, greeting the dew and frost with beauty that is mouth-watering. With a little seasoning, it can be made into a delicious dish for the dining table.
Pumpkin flowers are both a vegetable and a medicine. They clear dampness and heat, reduce swelling and eliminate blood stasis, prevent and combat cancer, and are suitable for treating jaundice, dysentery, cough, carbuncles, conjunctivitis, mastitis, and many other inflammatory conditions. They are often used as a health food. Practice has proven that its pollen can eliminate fatigue, boost the morale of athletes, restore youthful vitality to the elderly, enhance intelligence in children, and help the sick recover faster. It is also effective for anemia in children, chronic constipation, large intestine diseases, hypertension, headaches, strokes, and other conditions. It can adjust the nervous state and improve insomnia. The contained rutin can promote blood vessel and heart function, promote blood clotting, and prevent bleeding. Recent studies have found that the large amount of beta-carotene contained in it has anti-cancer properties, and the incidence of lung cancer, stomach cancer, and malignant lymphoma is closely related to the amount of beta-carotene in the blood. A survey in Shenyang showed that the average beta-carotene content in the blood of malignant tumor patients is 66.2 micrograms per 100 milliliters, while that of healthy people is 75.4 micrograms. According to the research of Singapore nutritionist Duobin, eating pumpkin flowers can effectively improve IQ. Facts have also proven that especially the pollen part is rich in content, making it worthy of the title of "all-around vegetable" and "miniature nutrition warehouse," and it can be called the "perfect nutritional food."
The ways to eat pumpkin flowers are diverse: they can be stir-fried or made into soup, or made into porridge or粥. Their taste is fresh and tender, the color is bright, and they increase appetite. You can also mix minced meat and tofu, carefully place it in the pumpkin flower, then steam or cook in a casserole, and eat it with seasoning after it's cooked for a unique flavor. Stir-fried with meat, cooked with chicken slices, or cooked with mushrooms, black fungus, and daylilies are all possible. You can also pair pumpkin flowers with spinach, blanch in boiling water, and mix with scallions, carrot shreds, sesame oil, salt, and vinegar for a cold dish that is refreshing and pleasant. Boiled pumpkin flowers can be used as stuffing with vermicelli, tofu, black fungus, etc., to make buns that are unmatched by any other stuffing. You can also add a few pumpkin flowers to cooked glutinous rice porridge for a short while to make "pumpkin flower porridge," which is fragrant and delicious.
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