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Where does Wenzhou laver come from?
Product name: Wenzhou Porphyra

Product alias: longevity vegetable

Product origin: Wenzhou

Product features: clearing heat and diuresis, tonifying kidney and nourishing heart, lowering blood pressure and promoting human metabolism.

Porphyra, commonly known as "longevity vegetable", is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially vitamins B 12, B 1, B2, A, C and E, etc. It contains protein about the same as soybean and six times as much as rice. Vitamin A is about 67 times that of milk, riboflavin is 9 times that of mushrooms and vitamin C is 70 times that of Chinese cabbage. It also contains choline, carotene, thiamine, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, iodine, protein, iron, calcium, phosphorus and cellulose. It has many functions such as clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, tonifying kidney and nourishing heart, lowering blood pressure and promoting human metabolism. Porphyra is rich in EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), which can prevent human aging; It contains a lot of taurine, which can reduce harmful cholesterol and protect the liver. 1/3 of laver is dietary fiber, which can keep intestinal health and excrete carcinogens, especially beneficial to the prevention of colorectal cancer.

Product history: China has been eating laver for more than 1000 years. Porphyra is often used as postpartum lotion for women; Patients with lung abscess and expectoration can often chew dried laver; Eating more seaweed in summer has the effect of relieving summer heat and strengthening the body. The trace polysaccharide contained in laver proves that it has the function of inhibiting cancer, and laver is also rich in choline, which can improve memory loss if eaten regularly.

Wenzhou laver culture is distributed in Cangnan and Dongtou counties. Among them, the laver culture area in Cangnan County is more than 30,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 5,000 tons and an output value of more than 65.438+0.5 billion yuan. In recent years, the technology and mode of laver culture in this county have been continuously innovated. With the popularization and application of improved seed breeding, high-yield breeding technology, disease control and research technology of laver product processing, laver production has formed its own characteristics in the local area. In 2003, it was named "the hometown of laver in China" by the Ministry of Agriculture.

At the same time, the large-scale cultivation of laver in Wenzhou has also increased its development in the field of deep processing of products. At present, a series of products such as Ansheng and Xingbei have been awarded the title of "Safe Agricultural Products" in Wenzhou.