What do garlic sprouts look like?

1 The efficacy and function of garlic sprouts

2 The difference between onions and garlic sprouts

3 A complete list of garlic sprouts recipes

4 How to eat garlic sprouts Benefits

5 Stir-fried meat with green garlic sprouts

6 Stir-fried tofu with garlic sprouts

7 Recipe for stir-frying garlic sprouts and duck feet

8 Stir-fried ham with garlic sprouts How to make oyster mushrooms

9 How to make squid with garlic sprouts

10 How to make edamame with garlic sprouts

11 How to make pork belly with garlic sprouts

12 Braised garlic sprouts How to cook meat

1 The efficacy and function of garlic sprouts

The taste of garlic sprouts is somewhat similar to garlic, but in general, it is completely different from garlic. The season when most garlic seedlings appear should be spring, which is of course related to the living habits of garlic seedlings. But with the development of greenhouse technology, we can actually eat garlic sprouts all year round. So, let’s talk about the efficacy and function of garlic sprouts.

Garlic platform, also called green garlic (garlic turns yellow when not exposed to light). The flower moss of garlic consists of two parts: the flower stem (moss stem) and the involucre (bract). The bract is the involucre at the top of the garlic flower stem, containing an underdeveloped inflorescence. Good quality garlic seedlings should be fresh and tender, with a plant height of about 35 centimeters, bright green leaves, not yellow or rotten, white hairy roots that are not withered, and a strong spiciness.

It is a young garlic seedling that has developed to a certain stage. It grows in farmland. It has the spicy taste of garlic and is edible with its tender leaves and leaf sheaths. Garlic sprouts are rich in vitamin C and nutrients such as protein, carotene, thiamine, and riboflavin. Its spiciness mainly comes from the capsaicin it contains, which has the effect of eliminating food accumulation. In addition, eating garlic sprouts can also effectively prevent influenza, enteritis and other diseases caused by environmental pollution. Garlic sprouts have a certain protective effect on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, can prevent the formation of blood clots, and can also protect the liver. It can grow everywhere and has high yield and good quality. For example, large-scale planting in Linyi, Shandong and other places has considerable economic benefits.

(1) Effects of garlic sprouts

Garlic sprouts are warm in nature and pungent in taste. Enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians.

Garlic sprouts have lighter medicinal properties than garlic. They have the effects of awakening the spleen, eliminating cereal grains, promoting stagnation of qi, warming the spleen and stomach, eliminating accumulated diseases, detoxifying, and killing insects. It can be used to treat food stagnation, cold and painful epigastric pain, swelling and fullness, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, whooping cough, carbuncle and venom, alopecia areata, tinea sores, and snake and insect bites. Used for colds, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, enteritis, and dietary stagnation.

(2) The role of garlic sprouts

Prevent thrombosis.

Garlic sprouts have obvious effects on lowering blood lipids and preventing coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and can prevent the formation of thrombosis.

Protect the liver.

Garlic sprouts can protect the liver, induce the activity of detoxification enzymes in liver cells, and block the synthesis of nitrosamine carcinogens, thereby preventing the occurrence of cancer.

Prevent influenza.

Garlic sprouts can effectively prevent influenza, enteritis and other diseases caused by environmental pollution. It can also promote the absorption of vitamin B1, accelerate metabolism, and quickly restore physical strength.

Improve immunity.

Protein is the most important nutrient for maintaining immune function and is the main component of white blood cells and antibodies. Copper and other minerals form enzymes related to immune function.

Digestion.

It helps the secretion of gastric acid and the digestion of food, and is suitable for treating dietary stagnation syndrome.

Relieves qi and reduces swelling.

Smooth Qi and reduce negative Qi, move Qi wide in the middle and lower Qi to remove swelling.

Remove fat and lower blood pressure.

Make blood pressure easier to control and make