Sunflower is an important vegetable in early ancient China. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were many documents about sunflower, which was widely eaten by people at that time and was once called "the master of all kinds of dishes".
Nutritional value and efficacy of sunflower: Sunflower contains protein, various minerals, vitamins, various amino acids and a lot of dietary fiber. Regular consumption of celery can promote metabolism and remove intestinal endotoxin, which is of great benefit to human health.
Sunflower can enter kidney meridian and small intestine meridian, so it can treat diseases such as diabetes and nephritis. Sunflower can enter kidney meridian and small intestine meridian, so it can treat diseases such as diabetes and nephritis. Sunflowers also have anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects, which can treat sore throat, and seeds and roots can also be used to treat urethritis.
Leaves are kidney-shaped or nearly round like spinach, which are generally wild and have not been developed or planted. It is divided into spring sunflower and winter sunflower according to seasons. In terms of eating, you can make porridge and braise in soy sauce, just like braise in soy sauce rape.
Sunflower has good nutritional value, and it is also a green food, which can promote metabolism, clear the field and detoxify, and also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetes, because it has a good anti-inflammatory effect and a good therapeutic effect on pharyngitis.
The medicinal properties of sunflower conflicted with the food crops in the north at that time. According to historical records, the earliest people who ate sunflower were actually aristocrats, because eating meat with sunflower had an excellent effect. However, people in the lower classes seldom eat meat. According to their long-term experience of eating sunflower, eating sunflower and millet together will cause disease.
So once there are new and more suitable vegetable varieties, the status of sunflower will decline step by step. However, in the southern region, because there is little consumption of millet, there is no such medicinal conflict, so sunflower has been planted since the Ming Dynasty.
However, the southern dialects are mixed, and the names of sunflower in different places are different, so people today can't clearly identify which vegetables are ancient sunflower.
Sunflower can be listed as the first of the five dishes because it is good. Sunflower can be listed as the first of the five dishes because it is good, and it is one of the few vegetables that can grow in winter. You know, in ancient China, there were not so many vegetables and the agricultural technology was not so good, so the edible vegetables in winter were very limited. Sunflower has become an important vegetable because it can grow in winter.
With the improvement of agricultural technology and the increase of vegetable varieties in China, the status of sunflower began to decline. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chinese cabbages were blooming everywhere, squeezing sunflowers out of the "altar" and replacing them. As a result, the planting area of sunflower gradually decreased, and later it gradually became a wild vegetable. The sunflower that ruled for more than two thousand years completely withdrew from the center of the stage.
Sunflower is not only rich in nutritional value, but also has high therapeutic value, otherwise it will not become the "king of vegetables" in ancient times. Finally, sunflower is eaten in a special way. Sunflower itself contains mucus, which seems to thicken after cooking, so sunflower is very suitable for soup and cold salad.
For example, sunflower bean curd soup, sunflower preserved egg lean broth, cold sunflower and so on. It tastes fresh and delicious. Although sunflower has become a wild vegetable, its value is still very high. If you have friends you like, you might as well plant some in the garden and try it yourself.