Description
Thailand Organic Series
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : It takes 2-7 days.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Thailand Organic Series / Mae Chaem, Thailand
🔖 Certification： The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Organic Certification TAS9000,
Thailand Organic Agriculture Certification (ACT) [pending confirmation]
🌱 Producer Introduction：
The local producer of over 50 kinds of organically grown premium products which is certified by Thai's government.
These fruits are grown in an area of 100 rais and include a large variety of products. Some fruits are organic certified, some grown organically and others grown with conventional means. Fruits are seasonal and therefore not available throughout the year with the exception of citrus, bananas and papaya which have a longer seasonality.
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information (Main) (English)：
Binomial Name：Ipomoea batatas (Linn.) Lam.
Chinese Name：日本紅薯
Other Names：Japanese Sweet Potato
Product Description：Sweet potato is a vine-like annual or perennial herb. The fleshy tuberous roots are thick and round, oval or spindle-shaped. Likes high temperatures, requires full sun and moderate rainfall. Sweet in taste, flat in nature, it has the effect of nourishing and neutralizing blood, nourishing qi and promoting body fluid, widening the stomach and clearing constipation. Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, which can clear cholesterol, promote excretion and relieve constipation; while yellow sweet potatoes are high in beta-carotene, which can help prevent cancer. The edible parts are the roots and leaves. "Sweet potato" generally refers to the root part, while the leaf part is called "sweet potato leaf".
Native to Mexico in Central America, it has a long history of cultivation. It was spread from Europe to Southeast Asia in the 16th century, and was introduced to China from Southeast Asia during the Ming Dynasty. Because it was imported from other places, it was named "Fan". At present, it is cultivated all over China and widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
Variety：Yellow sweet potato is just one of the varieties of sweet potato. According to the color of the skin, it can be divided into: (1) White sweet potato (rich in calcium, potassium, magnesium and folic acid) (2) Purple sweet potato, also known as taro sweet potato
(rich in anthocyanins, which help maintain good eyesight) (3) yellow sweet potato (sweet taste) (4) red sweet potato (sweet taste) (5) orange sweet potato (rich in beta carotene)
Supply Season：It is suitable for planting in any season of the year (the best is from August to November), and it is generally excavated in autumn and winter. Available all year round in Hong Kong.
Storage Method：Sweet potatoes do not need to be refrigerated, but only need to be placed in a cool and ventilated place, preferably below 20 degrees Celsius. Refrigeration may dry out sweet potatoes. Store at room temperature for about a week. Boiled sweet potatoes should be stored in an ice tray. It should be washed before cooking to keep it fresh, and it should be put out of the pot immediately after cutting, because the oxidation of the air will cause the loss of vitamins.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Appropriate: People with weak spleen and stomach (only cooked food, because sweet potatoes are cold in nature), those with less qi and fatigue, and those with constipation.
Contraindications: Stomach ulcers and hyperacidity should be taken with caution. Sweet potatoes are high-starch vegetables, and those who are on blood sugar control should pay attention to the portion size. People with middle fullness (abdominal distention and fullness) should not eat too much, as they can stagnate gas. All epidemics, malaria dysentery, swelling, etc. are forbidden.
*Edible Compatibility：
Availability: Not reported in the literature. Xiang Ke: Consuming it with persimmon may cause stomach discomfort, and in severe cases, it may cause stomach bleeding.
Cooking Skills：A delicious way to cook sweet potatoes is to bake them with their skins on, making "roasted sweet potatoes". But neither an open flame nor an oven are ideal, and the best way to do it is to put the sweet potatoes in the middle of hot stones. If left long enough, the far-infrared waves radiated by the stones will slowly roast the sweet potatoes through, increasing their sugar concentration and evaporating excess water, bringing out the natural sweetness.
Notes：Among the anti-cancer vegetables announced by the National Cancer Institute of Japan, sweet potatoes rank first.
Dish：They can be battered and deep-fried to make tempura, steamed and sliced to dry in the sun to make "hoshi-imo" (hoshi-imo), or cut into long, french-fry shapes and deep-fried Coated with syrup, it is made into a sweet snack called "sweet potato sticks in syrup" (imo-kenpi). They are also used to make 'imo-jochu', an alcoholic beverage made from the sweet potatoes' natural sugars in a distillation process.
Suggested Eating Method：
A delicious dish of sweet potatoes is baked with skin and made into "roasted sweet potatoes". But the bright fire and the oven are not ideal choices. The best way is to put sweet potatoes in the middle of the hot stones. If you put it in a long enough time, the far -infrared wave radiation of the stone will slowly bake the sweet potatoes, increase the concentration of its sugar, and evaporate excess water, thereby bringing out a natural sweetness.
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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
Special attention: The dishes, especially small flowers and broccoli, are best soaked in the water to remove residual pesticides (I will have organic farms). It is recommended to use our vegetables and vegetables environmentally friendly cleaner
Dish Drops for 3 to 5 minutes to eliminate residuals, sand and dust.
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.
