Description
Lyfegreen
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : Air Transport Once A Week. Drive Every Saturday.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Lyfegreen / Taiwan
🔖 Certification： Taiwan Organic Certification
🌱 Producer Introduction：
Background
Lyfetribe builds a health and wellness platform, Lyfegreen was founded as a joint collaboration between Lyfetribe and Fushan Grange, taiwan’s leading social enterprise for organic agriculture and sustainable producers.
Today, Lyfegreen supports and works with a network of more than 100 carefully curated organic farms and sustainable producers across taiwan, showcasing an array of over 200 varieties of fruits and veggies throughout the year.
Our mission: fresh, high-quality and diversified are the core of our work. In addition, we don't want to only sell fruits and vegetables. We want to help you discover a new healthy food concept and contribute to a more sustainable world.
There are also airline shipping every week to hong kong and ship directly after arriving at hong kong, so the fruits and vegetables are 100%fresh.
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information (Main) (English)：
Binomial Name：Amaranthus mangostanus L.
Chinese Name：莧菜
Other Names：Amaranth | Chinese Amaranth
Product Description：Amaranth are generally good sources of vitamins and minerals, including rich sources of vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin B6, vitamin C, riboflavin, folic acid, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc, copper, and manganese and other nutrients. Amaranth seeds, like quinoa and buckwheat, are among the rare foods that contain the full set of 20 amino acids.
Some studies have shown that the seeds of amaranth or its oil may be helpful in preventing high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, and long-term intake may be beneficial in lowering blood pressure and blood lipids.
Indonesian：
BAYAM DURI MANFAAT
Kandungan pada Bayam Duri ini terdapat Amarantin, rutin, spinasterol, hentriakontan, tanin, kalium nitrat, kalsium oksalat, garam fosfat, zat besi, serta vitamin. Bayam duri, terkadang dianggap sebelah mata. Dibandingkan bayam sayur biasa, meski rasanya sama, tumbuhan ini jarang disentuh.
Padahal, banyak yang tidak menyadari, selain enak, tumbuhan ini penuh khasiat, menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit seperti disentri, bisul, keputihan, gangguan pernafasan, bronkitis, serta mperlancar dan memperbanyak produksi ASI. Tumbuhan Bayam duri secara empiris digunakan untuk mengobati berbagai penyakit diantaranya eksim, disentri dan diare. Aktivitas antibakteri dari daun bayam duri ini masih belum banyak diteliti.Tanaman ini juga mempunyai sifat masuk meridien jantung dan ginjal. Menghilangkan panas (antipiretik), peluruh kemih (diuretik), menghilangkan racun (anti-toksin) menghilangkan bengkak, menghentikan diare dan membersihkan darah. Tanaman ini juga bersifat.
Variety：The plant morphology of amaranth can be divided into three types: erect type, semi-creeping type and creeping type. Branched from the stem, the surface is cylindrical and smooth, the stem is light green, green, light red to dark red, and the petiole is very short. There are various leaf shapes, including round, oval and pointed leaves.
Amaranth varieties are also divided into white amaranth and green amaranth: the leaves of white amaranth are yellow-green; the leaves of green amaranth are greener. The same genus of this variety is Amaranth (A. virids)
L.), contains roughly the same nutrients, and can also be eaten as vegetables.
Supply Season：The main production period is from April to October each year.
Storage Method：It should be eaten as soon as possible after purchase, or it can be sealed with plastic wrap and placed in the refrigerator. The shelf life is about 2 to 3 days.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Appropriate: Suitable for people with dysentery, constipation, anemia, chickenpox, whooping cough, and sores.
avoid:
1. People with weak spleen and stomach and frequent diarrhea should eat less; because amaranth is high in potassium, people with poor kidney function and uremia should eat less.
2. Amaranth is not good for pregnant women, so you must pay attention.
Pregnant women should avoid eating amaranth
Properties (TCM): cool
Five Flavors in TCM: sweet
Efficacy Tonify qi, clear away heat and improve eyesight, promote detoxification, and facilitate defecation
Pregnant women should not eat amaranth. If they feel gastrointestinal discomfort or indigestion, they should not eat more or not eat it. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there is a saying that amaranth has a slippery tire, and it is also recorded in the "Dietary Notes": amaranth, a pregnant woman eats a slippery tire, and it is easy to give birth when it is eaten before the month. Therefore, it can be seen that it is most suitable for pregnant women to eat at full term. But at the same time, it is pointed out that amaranth is slippery, so pregnant women in early pregnancy should not eat it. Especially pregnant women who have a tendency to miscarriage or have a history of habitual miscarriage should avoid eating it.
Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium that is easily absorbed by the body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal myocardial activity, and prevent intramuscular spasms. Amaranth is rich in iron and can synthesize hemoglobin in red blood cells. It has the functions of hematopoiesis and oxygen carrying, and promotes the growth and development of the fetus. Pregnant women can eat it before giving birth.
*Edible Compatibility：
Appropriate: 1. Amaranth and pork lean meat: used in soup to clear heat and diuresis, detoxify and clear rash, nourish qi and nourish the stomach. 2. Amaranth and japonica rice: boiled into porridge can clear heat and relieve dysentery. 3. Amaranth and shrimp: Eating together can supplement calcium, which is especially suitable for children to eat, and can promote growth. 4. Amaranth and garlic: Eating together can bring appetizer, spleen, and digestion. Taboo: Amaranth and turtle meat: both are cold in nature, difficult to digest when eaten together, and easy to form gastrointestinal stagnation.
Cooking Skills：The edible parts are tender stems and young leaves. Cut off the roots, soak in clean water for about 45 minutes, open the leaves and wash them with running water.
The cooking time of amaranth should not be too long.
Notes：Some customers do not like the taste and texture of amaranth.
There is another wild vegetable of Chenopodiaceae, also known as wild amaranth (Acroglochin persicarioides Moq.).
Dish：Amaranth with fish paste, gold and silver eggs soaked in amaranth, stir-fried amaranth with minced garlic, and fresh shrimp and amaranth dumplings.
Suggested Eating Method：
The edible part is tender stems and tender leaves. Remove the roots, soak in water for about 45 minutes, and open the leaves and wash them with flowing water.
The cooking time of amaranth should not be too long.
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🔅Precautions (English Version)：
☘️ Preserve vegetables
1. Leafy vegetables and softer vegetables, if packaged, should be placed in the cold box in the original package;
2. Organic Vegetables are more prone to spoilage if they have water droplets. Put the vegetables in a ventilated place to dry or wipe off the water vapor, then wrap the vegetables in slightly damp newspaper and put them in a plastic bag before refrigerating. ;
3. Organic vegetables do not use preservatives or special treatments. Vegetables are generally stored for three to five days. Some vegetables will decompose enzymes, so they should be eaten as soon as possible.
☘️ How to wash vegetables
1. Wash vegetables before cooking to keep them fresh;
2. It is not advisable to soak the vegetables for too long, and they should be washed first and then cut to avoid the loss of vitamins;
3. Washing vegetables with dilute salt water or Dish Drop can easily remove vegetable insects;
4. Cut vegetables with a stainless steel knife to reduce vitamin loss;
5. Vegetable leaves contain a lot of nutrients, so you should avoid shredding, chopping or grinding the leaves;
6. Immediately after cutting, to avoid the loss of vitamins due to air oxidation.
