Some are cooked with flowers.

China has a long history of edible flowers. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people regarded Osmanthus Jelly and Chrysanthemum Cake as banquet treasures. In Fanfangpu in Qing Dynasty, the preparation methods of more than 20 kinds of flower foods, such as sweet-scented osmanthus balls, jasmine soup, sweet-scented osmanthus scallops, jasmine chicken breast, chrysanthemum cake and crystal sugar lily soup, are described in detail. These foods are tonics and can also treat bronchitis and neurasthenia. Chrysanthemum can be used to make high-end food and dishes. Plum blossoms can be used to make preserves and jam. Osmanthus fragrans can be used to make sweet-scented osmanthus candy, cakes, sweet-scented osmanthus sauce and sweet-scented osmanthus wine. The fruits or bulbs of many flowers and trees can also be eaten raw. Fruits such as pomegranate, kumquat, fig and grape, as well as underground stems and bulbs of lotus, lily and Polygonatum odoratum, are all nutritious edible products. Nutritional value of pollen: pollen is the reproductive organ of seed plants, the male sperm cells and the concentrate of plant generations. Pollen is a kind of natural substance with rich nutrition and concentrated complete nutrients, which is called "green gold", "all-round nutrition bank" and "mini nutrition bank". Pollen contains high-quality protein, up to more than 30%, 22 kinds of amino acids, 8 times higher than eggs, milk and meat, and 15 kinds of vitamins, which are higher than any fruit and better than vitamin capsules. Among them, the contents of VE and B2 are extremely high, more than five times that of wheat germ? /FONT & gt； LO times; It also contains more than 20 kinds of trace elements, more than 80 kinds of bioactive substances such as enzymes, hormones and flavonoids, and rich nucleic acids. The bioactive substances in pollen have wonderful regulating effects on various physiological functions of human body and physiological activities of various organ systems, so pollen is used for health care of almost all organ systems of human body and has a good therapeutic effect on diseases of all organ systems.

(2) Flowers and food

Flowers are colorful, elegant and unique, fragrant and full of vitality. They not only give people beautiful enjoyment, but also are rich in protein, fat, starch, various amino acids and vitamins, as well as various nutrients necessary for human body, such as macro elements and trace elements, which have certain medicinal value and health care functions. Chewing flowers existed in ancient Rome as early as two thousand years ago, and now it has set off a new upsurge in the United States. Even Michael Jackson, a sickly international rock star, once ate seven freshly picked flowers in a hotel in Florida. Flower cooking has also become popular. The chef removed the roses from the soup surface, made a salad with dandelion buds and made pancakes with flowers. The most popular cake for diners should be the cake sprinkled with rose perfume and lettuce vegetable oil. The flower-eating craze is not the creation of anyone, but the retro enthusiasm inadvertently aroused by California restaurant owners and flower farmers. There is a paradise farm in gabriela, California, and its owner Nun is the first person in California to sell organically grown edible flowers. Business is very good, and demand is often in short supply. He planted nearly 40 edible flowers. The first species is Trollius chinensis. Later, I found that sesame cauliflower was beautiful and delicious, so I began to plant it in large quantities. Then violets, pansies, chrysanthemums, dandelions and so on were introduced. Nuin said: "Among them, pansy and violet are most favored by customers and chefs because of their bright colors and good color and fragrance." Now, Paradise Farm has customers all over the United States. Today, restaurants that make a lot of money from flower meals are not only in California. The ace dish of a luxury restaurant in Dahners is "Pickled Roses", and a famous restaurant in Philadelphia has become even more famous since it introduced "Lotus Juice Ice Water".

(3) Flower dietotherapy

Yin Hua lotus seed soup. 30 grams of honeysuckle and 50 grams of lotus seeds (without removing the core). Boil honeysuckle, remove residue, and cook lotus seeds. Add some sugar when eating. It can clear away heat and toxic materials, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. Diarrhea and dysentery caused by heat toxin disturbing the large intestine, acute internal stress followed by severe internal stress, accompanied by fever, burning anus and fire annoyance can be used as complementary food.

Chinese rose soup (Compendium of Materia Medica): Use 3, 15 failed Chinese rose flowers, wash them, add 2 cups of water, fry them to L cups with slow fire, add 30 grams of rock sugar, dry them and take them warmly. Treat amenorrhea due to blood stasis, dysmenorrhea, and traumatic swelling and pain.

Jasmine drink: 5 grams of jasmine, 20 grams of sugar, flowers and sugar are boiled in water, and dregs are removed for drinking. Or brew with boiling water. Can be used for treating chest and rib pain caused by stagnation of liver qi.

Jasmine tremella soup: 25g tremella, 20 jasmine flowers. Put clear soup in the pot, add tremella, cooking wine, salt and monosodium glutamate, boil and sprinkle with jasmine. It has a good therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, dry cough due to lung explosion, blood in sputum, gastrointestinal fever, constipation and bleeding, senile bronchitis, dizziness, chronic pharyngitis, irregular menstruation, hemoptysis due to pulmonary tuberculosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension. It is the best tonic for neurasthenia and post-illness weakness.

Sweet-scented osmanthus chestnut glutinous rice paste: 250g chestnuts, 50g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of sugar and appropriate amount of sweet-scented osmanthus. Boil chestnuts in water to make them brittle, shell them, press them into mud, cook glutinous rice into porridge, add chestnut mud and white sugar, cook them slightly, and take out osmanthus. Benefiting kidney qi, treating kidney deficiency, dysuria, frequent urination, dysuria and other symptoms of the elderly.

Osmanthus porridge: 50 grams of sweet potato, 25 grams of japonica rice, and some osmanthus. Steam sweet potatoes in water, peel and grind them into mud, add rice porridge and white sugar, then boil and remove sugar. Can be used as nutritious food for children.

Lotus porridge: collect its petals, dry them and grind them into powder for later use. Cook the porridge with100g of stem rice until the porridge is cooked into10g of lotus powder-15g, and boil until it is boiled. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, dissipate blood stasis and lose weight. It is also a bodybuilding medicine that calms the heart, benefits the qi and keeps the forehead.

Plum blossom porridge: first cook two stalks to cook porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add 5g of Bai Meihua and cook it twice. Generally, 5 to 7 days is a course of treatment. Cooking porridge with plum blossom can treat mental fatigue, pharyngitis, anorexia and sore poison. Long-term use can strengthen the body. It can soothe the liver, regulate qi, strengthen the spleen and relieve chest tightness.

Chrysanthemum porridge: collect flowers and remove pedicels before the first frost in autumn, dry them and grind them into fine powder. Cook porridge with100g of stem rice, add10g of chrysanthemum powder-15g after cooking, and cook for another minute or two. It can lower blood pressure, dilate coronary artery, increase coronary blood volume, slow down heart rate and strengthen myocardial contraction.

Flat bean curd porridge: Take flat dried bean curd that is not completely opened in July-August every year and dry it with selenium. Cook porridge with 100g stem rice. When the porridge is ready, add 10g flat tofu and cook it once or twice. It can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, stimulate appetite, help digestion, stimulate appetite, strengthen spleen, clear heat and eliminate dampness.

Peach blossom porridge: 4 grams of peach blossom (2 grams of dried product), japonica rice 100 grams. Cook these two things into porridge. It is suitable for constipation caused by gastrointestinal dryness and heat. Take it every other day 1 time, and stop taking it immediately, but not for a long time.

Honey honeysuckle dew: 30 grams of honeysuckle and 30 grams of white honey. Decoct Flos Lonicerae with water, remove residues, and add honey, and take it three times and four times. It has a good effect on preventing influenza and treating lung dryness and cough. Hua Shuang drink: 50 grams of honeysuckle, 50 grams of chrysanthemum and 500 grams of honey. The honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and hawthorn are decocted in water to make a thick juice, and then eaten with honey. It is not only a cool drink in summer, but also a health drink for fever, cooking thirst, dizziness, sore throat, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, purulent infection and other diseases in summer.