Mulberry leaves can be eaten, made into tea and used as medicine. When were they chosen?

Mulberry leaves: Mulberry leaves are the favorite food of silkworm babies. Besides increasing the nutrient accumulation of mulberry through photosynthesis, it can also be used to raise silkworms, make wild vegetables, make tea and take medicine. The purpose is different from the picking time!

1, edible, sericulture, when to pick? Mulberry leaves are rich in nutrition, high-quality protein and crude fiber. They can be used as food for silkworm babies and wild vegetables. Mulberry leaves can be picked during the whole growing period, whether for food or sericulture.

However, attention should be paid to the principle of not affecting the growth of mulberry trees when picking.

Mulberry leaves are eaten raw and cooked into cakes, cold dishes or porridge, mainly with tender leaves. There is a kind of "mulberry leaf binding" made of mulberry leaves, which is to wrap the stuffing along the mulberry leaves and steam it, and then pick the old leaves.

If you pick mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, you should also pay attention to the time. It is more suitable to pick in the morning or at night. Because the picked mulberry leaves need to be shaken and stored in the mulberry room, the accumulation of heat should be avoided during the storage of mulberry leaves. The low temperature in the morning and evening and the low heat in the field are beneficial to the storage of mulberry leaves.

Mulberry leaf tea, pick it at this time! You may have seen mulberry leaf tea on the market. Generally, mulberry leaves are cut into strips, steamed and fried. If mulberry leaves are used as tea leaves, they are usually picked in summer and autumn. It is usually picked in summer and autumn. At this time, all aspects of the nutrition of mulberry leaves have been fully stored.

However, there is a relatively simple way to make mulberry leaf tea in rural hometown, that is, picking mulberry leaves, washing and drying them, and soaking them in water. The tea soup is light green and very hot to drink. Rural hometown pays attention to picking on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. But it is ok to pick a few days before and after!

The picking time of mulberry leaves is also a good Chinese herbal medicine, but there are three kinds of Chinese herbal medicines: green mulberry leaves, frost mulberry leaves and winter mulberry leaves. Different species have different picking times.

Green mulberry leaves: intact mulberry leaves picked in autumn without frost.

Frosted mulberry leaves: picking is more strict. First, it was beaten by frost, and then it was hung on the branches (this is because some unscrupulous vendors used frost to beat mulberry leaves as a substitute).

Mulberry leaves in winter: generally, they are not picked in the north, and the picking time is later than that of frosted mulberry leaves. The south can still be harvested.

The above is the picking time in first frost. You can choose the picking time according to your purpose.

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