Amaranth is a medicinal and food ingredient with very good medicinal and food value. It is also known as grasshopper vegetable and longevity vegetable. In recent years, its role and efficacy have been emphasized by and by.

I. Amaranth has the following effects:

• Anti-inflammatory and sterilization, clearing heat and detoxification. The body has heat toxicity, intestinal fire, liver fire, stomach fire, mouth ulcers, eye redness and swelling pain, laryngitis, etc., every day to eat some amaranth or boiled water to drink treatment effect is good.
• Moistening and laxative, treating hemorrhoids. It has the effect of moistening, sliding intestines, clearing intestinal fire, reducing swelling, relieving pain and detoxification, and can prevent and treat all kinds of constipation, hemorrhoids, swelling and pain, etc., and its effect will be significantly better.
• It is good for reducing water retention, regulating blood sugar and blood pressure. Amaranth is rich in potassium salts and other components, conducive to the permeability of tissue cells, and promote the body's timely elimination of excess water. Some of these nutritious substances are involved in regulating metabolism in the body, and have a positive effect on regulating blood sugar and blood pressure, so they are very beneficial to people with "three highs".
• Amaranth can reduce the production of serum cholesterol in the body, while reducing blood viscosity, effectively preventing the formation of blood clots, on the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease is very beneficial.

Amaranth is cold and slippery, although non-toxic, but it is not easy to eat more, eating more will lead to diarrhea, gastrointestinal discomfort, and even nausea and vomiting. Pregnant women are forbidden to eat, because it has a certain stimulating effect on the uterus, which will lead to miscarriage.

II. Amaranth can be grown and is widely demanded by the market

It is now available online, both dried and fresh. This vegetable is very strong, and "sun does not die", only blanching can be dried. It can be found everywhere in the fields in the general area.

You have to do a good job of market research, such as the situation of online sales, how the food market stalls, such as online stores best test marketing. Now is the collection of sales season, now estimated that many people do not have a great desire to buy, because they can collect. But undeniably very promising market development, because people pay more and more attention to health, other seasons can be sold, not collected people can also buy.

Here are a few suggestions for you to consider:

• Pilot planting, then full-scale spread. Plant a small area first, and if sales are good, experience can be gained for widespread planting.
• Deep processing and joint marketing. Washing, blanching, drying, processing, packaging a dragon, so as to increase the credibility of the goods, the buyer will be more assured of the goods; to be reasonably priced, you can contact pharmacies, online stores, stores, and even headlines and other operational promotions, I think this method is practical and feasible.
• You'd better go to consult the local authorities, whether you need to apply for a health certificate registration procedures, etc., which is equal to the medicinal herbs to add a layer of "insurance".
• Knowing more about the pharmacological benefits, edible nutrients and storage, diet, and treatments of amaranth, and explaining them in your marketing will increase the credibility as well as the sales of your merchandise.

In a word, I personally think that no matter you are a big enterprise or a small workshop, you have to be honest in business and novel in service marketing concept. Open your mind, grasp every link of planting, production and marketing, pay more attention to details such as natural color, freshness, cleanliness and hygiene, taste (should not be too old) and original flavor of amaranth, you will gradually win a broad market.

Finally, @KissLifeOneAisin wishes you success!

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Amaranth is a very common wild vegetable in the countryside, and in those days of food shortages, people filled their stomachs with amaranth.

With the improvement of people's living standards, in recent years, people are more concerned about his nutritional value and health care functions.

Amaranth Clearing heat and detoxification, dispersing blood and reducing swelling, can be used to treat dysentery, also has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory function. It can be used to treat diarrhea and enteritis.

Amaranth also has the effect of lowering blood pressure and protecting the heart from beating too fast, among other things. It can also lower blood sugar and regulate the body's sugar balance.

Horseradish also contains unsaturated fatty acids and potassium salts, which reduce the production of serum cholesterol and triglycerides in the body and help our vascular endothelial cells to synthesize prostaglandins, which stops platelets from forming blood clots.

However, amaranth is cold in nature and is not suitable for everyone.

For growing amaranth exclusively, it's actually not very good.

Amaranth grows vigorously and can be found alongside rural roads at any time. And its market is not stable, can not be long-term sales. And sales of the main population is urban residents, the sales surface is also a little small. Therefore, the prospect of growing amaranth is not very optimistic.

I ate a lot of wild vegetables when I was a kid, and in the amaranth category, there was wild amaranth and gray amaranth in the spring. Not many people really loved that amaranth back then.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of chicken, duck, fish and meat, but people prefer the wild vegetables that used to feed the hungry. Here I often see women in the suburbs of the ecological garden, cotton fields to dig amaranth, endive, picking trees on the acacia flowers, elm money.

It does strike me as rare to find amaranth in this Gobi Desert as well. I found some just the other day in the green flower belt in our neighborhood. Ate it cold too.

Amaranth is not a vegetable for daily consumption. People only know that it has some medicinal value according to relevant medical books. Through the processing of cooking can be both medicinal and food. But amaranth is cold nature. Eating some in summer can be cool and relieve summer heat, but not everyone can eat it. Spleen and stomach cold body can not eat. These from the information on a check will know.

As for the saying, "If you eat amaranth, you will not be sick in your old age," this is a bit of an exaggeration. Now is the season to eat amaranth, just in our neighborhood living in the first floor of the household, small vegetable garden also planted amaranth. Other vegetables have some small insects and butterflies, but the amaranth grows vigorously and is green and tender. This means that amaranth is a wild vegetable that is easy to grow and live.

(Picture self-taken, amaranth growing in the neighborhood garden)

This kind of wild vegetables are everywhere. Live in the building outside to get some soil put pots, do not have to plant, self out, and grow especially fast, a crop of pinch to eat, watering at any time on the line, more than the flowers are well fed.

I was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, and worked in the countryside after I started working, so I have a better understanding of the situation in the countryside. In the past, rural people used to eat amaranth (which is what we locally call amaranth) purely to fill their stomachs and avoid starvation. Later, the food is enough, not hungry, rural people still eat amaranth, that is, amaranth as a vegetable, change the flavor. Amaranth plus garlic suds seasoning 'fish fish', light, the flavor is different, to ensure that you eat after a lingering fragrance. Every year, when the amaranth grows, I always try it first.

Nowadays, scientific research has proved that amaranth is indeed a good nutritional dish with medicinal value. Some people even say: 'Eat amaranth, to the old no disease'. Amaranth is more and more becoming a kind of wild vegetable that people love to eat in their life.

Amaranth is not only delicious, but also contains a lot of essential vitamins, amaranth has great medicinal value, folk commonly used amaranth boiled water to drink to treat 'runny stomach″, this is very effective. I have dried the amaranth in the sun to prepare goods, specializing in the treatment of pig diarrhea, sheep diarrhea, the effect is really good.

I keep amaranth in my yard specifically, that is not specifically planted, just amaranth seeds that I brought back from a previous amaranth eating experience that came out as seedlings inadvertently. From this, it seems that amaranth is very easy to grow, amaranth grows strongly, the growing conditions are not very demanding, and after a single planting, it can be harvested continuously for many years.

If you want to grow amaranth for your own consumption, you can grow a small amount of amaranth. If you want to plant amaranth to generate income, then you need to grasp the market economy, if there is a track to connect, there is a market to sell, planting amaranth is also a kind of income-generating planting industry.

I won't say much about what amaranth is good for the human body. I'm from Guangdong. This thing really has a great aftertaste ah. When I was a kid in the countryside, we used to drink it as herbal tea, especially in summer when I picked some and boiled it and cooled it with a little bit of salt. I can drink a big bowl. When I was a child, I went outside to play on the mountain and down the river. I was very sweaty and tired. Come back to drink a bowl of this immediately resurrected full blood state. I went out to play again. I haven't drank it for many years. When I saw it in the city market, I remembered it. At that time, I thought that people out there didn't know that it was edible.

Then I realized that it was eaten in many places. So here's the question.

This stuff is actually good for your body. It's green and pollution free again. Organic is not organic do not know. A lot of places to eat but the city market supermarkets do not seem to be many people to sell and not many people to eat.

I think there is a market for this. Because it's hand grown it sells and will be prettier than the wild ones for sure.

It also depends on the place to pick the right place. Then promote it well. Introduce more about this dish I think there is still a market for it.

In our old family's own cornfield can be found everywhere amaranth, especially fresh, dig some home, cooked amaranth cake, rolled in oil spicy garlic, the beauty of ah, don't mention! For those of us who have lived in the city for many years, it is incomparable to big fish and meat.

In fact, it is not only the taste that is different, but most of all amaranth has many benefits for human oil.

Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

Taste:Sour, cold.

Meridian:Attributed to the liver and large intestine meridians.

Effects:Clearing away heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, stopping dysentery.

Indications:Heat-poisoned bloody diarrhea, carbuncle, boil, eczema, salpingitis, snake and insect bites, blood in stool, hemorrhoidal blood, hemorrhagic discharges.

Modern Research:Amaranth contains vitamin C, B vitamins, carotenoids and also malic acid, which makes it sour to eat. Amaranth is also very rich in minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Studies have also found that amaranth contains omega-3 fatty acids thatAnd its content is higher than human and plants. It can inhibit the absorption of bile solid acid in the human body, facilitate lipid metabolism, improve the elasticity of blood vessel wall, which is very favorable to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Modern research has shown that amaranth has anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects, and is effective in treating diarrhea caused by E. coli.

Beneficial to blood pressure stabilization, lipid metabolism beneficial to peptic ulcer pre-healing, but also anti-viral effect.

However, it is mainly preventive and beneficial, and rarely used directly to treat illness. Unless a large amount of amaranth is used to clear away heat and toxins and to treat diarrhea.

In fact, amaranth can also be eaten cold, scrambled eggs, dumplings and so on.

Who should not consume amaranth?

1, pregnant women should never eat horse-teeth water pipe, horse-teeth water pipe has the role of promoting uterine contractions, pregnant women eat may lead to abortion.

2, abdominal cold caused by diarrhea, also do not eat horse teeth water pipe, otherwise it may aggravate the condition.

Because amaranth is considered a Chinese medicine, although it can cure diarrhea, it needs the dialectical treatment of a Chinese medicine doctor, which is also the mystery and essence of Chinese medicine!

But as a wild vegetable, you can eat it if you like, no problem!

To say that the planting, this may belong to the agricultural planting and sales and so on, as a doctor dare not comment, but if the investigation by the market, of course, you can try to see, after all, the current market gap is still relatively large.

When I was a child, I lived in the countryside, and my family's life was very bitter and poor. At that time, the production team has not been disbanded, parents are team members, every day out of work, sunset and rest, hard picking hard to save, from beginning to end of the year can not spare a few points, the family is often short of a meal on the next meal. Food is not enough to eat, can not fill the growling stomach, what to do? Had to use a variety of wild vegetables in the fields to feed the hungry, Ma Ma Fu to solve the pain of hunger borborygmus.

Liaoxi this boundary, the land more poor ridge, and the soil is alkaline mostly, crops do not love to grow, but into the full of several kinds of human and animal can be eaten together wild vegetables, such as what bitter hemp seed, chicory to buy vegetables, Brahmaputra, line hemp grain, amaranth, and so on, and so on. Every year in the summer, these wild vegetables are growing fluffy and vigorous, thick, they are scattered in the fields, the riverside children's embankment, pick up that is, reach out and get, more than enough.

In this family of wild vegetables, amaranth is especially prevalent. Amaranth, is I will mention in the following amaranth. Amaranth is supposed to be the scientific name of this wild vegetable, country people brain clumsy eyes ugly, what the scientific name of the children do not learn the name of the children, do not understand, but also called not used to, only called the amaranth for amaranth.

Amaranth is extremely strong, flood and drought resistant, you just give it a soil growth environment, it will be shaking spirit, crazy like fierce growth. Summer and fall seasons, the village people dug a crop and a crop, always digging, picking endless, they dug the amaranth to bring home, clean water, hot water blanching, and then mixed in bracts of rice flour or sorghum rice, or steaming nests, or cooking rice porridge ...... each family practice is very different, and the purpose of only one: to add to satiate the stomach! Visible, then amaranth in the countryside on the table, how important it is!

Later, there is a brigade of private teachers Lao Liu, because of the important presence of amaranth on the countryside table, racked his brains, for it to make up a few lines of jingle: amaranth, amaranth, countryside home unusual see. Breakfast noodles, lunch rice, three meals of wild vegetables pad bottom of the pot ...... The wild vegetables mentioned here refers to the amaranth. Now, the old Liu has long been ancient, and he left these lines of jingle, the village older, from that era over, a few still alive old people still vaguely remember, and occasionally get together, mentioning this, but also can be wooed Ba Du memorized a few lines.

It can be seen that the amaranth in that special era of grain shortage, squash generation, to the lack of food and clothing in the countryside can fill their stomachs, indeed played a vital role!

After a few years, life gradually turned for the better, the family food can basically make ends meet, people's dinner table, no longer see the figure of amaranth. To be honest, from eating amaranth growing up, it's that kind of sour, astringent several flavors, has long penetrated into my bones, and now I think about it, the heart will always be a little creepy, but also reflexive regurgitation. If one day, fate intends to play tricks on me, and then let me meal to amaranth to hunger, I really do not know to my own day with what kind of will to stay down.

Nowadays, people are well-fed, the days are full of affluence, began to eat and drink on the pick and choose, eat more of this, eat less of that, the purpose of the intention of health. And a variety of wild vegetables and began to re-enter the people's table, amaranth is also among them. There are so-called experts to the amaranth legend of God, that it has this function, that effect, and nutritious, medicinal value is very good, I really can not agree. Maybe the experts say again reason, maybe my own lack of knowledge less knowledge, on the amaranth in addition to let a person hunger, on its other effects of lack of cognition, each of their own views, there is no need to be here again divided into a high and low.

As for the saying 'eat amaranth, no need to go to the hospital' clouds, I think nine times out of ten, in people's consciousness is to it intentionally exaggerated role, but no matter what, amaranth this kind of wild vegetables have long been melted into people's lives, it is as people's edible or medicinal also, as long as people can accept it, then its existence will have real value.

Much, much has been said about the edible and medicinal value of Amaranthus, and I will only add that it is red, yellow, pink, white, and green. The roots, buried in the soil are red, and those exposed are green; the stems are red; the thick young leaves are green; and the flowers that Amaranthus blooms are, yellow; pink; and white. It is often said that the five colors tonify the five organs. Eating amaranth nourishes all five of the body's organs, and the saying that amaranth is a longevity herb, "Eat amaranth to old age without disease," is true to its name. Because of the many benefits of amaranth, do not see everyone is clear, and amaranth is very easy to grow, in the rural areas of the field everywhere, if deliberately planted, from the point of view of the benefits, not cost-effective.

When I was a kid, my mom used to take me to dig wild vegetables near the vegetable garden, and one of the foods with a lovely appearance was amaranth. Back home clean, blanch and eat cold, especially refreshing. Or you can scramble eggs to eat, especially the next meal.

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Amaranth is a common wild vegetable in our daily life, which is widely distributed in China. Many places call it"Longevity Vegetable", "Longevity Vegetable"., which is a good indication of how much the people like the amaranth.

I. Nutritional Composition and Characteristics of Amaranthine

• More than a dozen fatty acids are found in amaranth, especially EPA and DHA among the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are rarely found in plants. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are involved in a variety of physiological functions in the human body, and adequate fatty acids are essential for human health.
• Amaranth contains a variety of bioactive substances such as flavonoids, alkaloids, terpenoids and coumarins. The bioactive substances have a variety of physiological functions, such as antioxidant.
• Polysaccharides make up about 20% or more of amaranth, and when polysaccharides enter the intestinal tract, they can regulate the balance of intestinal flora and promote intestinal health.
• Amaranth contains calcium, potassium, magnesium, and other trace elements essential to the human body, especially potassium, which is higher in amaranth than in ordinary vegetables.

II. Recipes for amaranth

1. Cold amaranth (Amaranthus tinctorius): Clean the amaranth and blanch it in boiling water, then wash it under running water, cut it into segments, and add seasonings and mix well.
2. Lean Meat Soup with Amaranth: 50g of amaranth, lean pork half a catty. Lean pork cleaned and cut into thin slices, and ginger together into the pot, add the right amount of water boiled over high heat and then turn to low heat and slowly simmer for 1 hour, and finally add the cleaned amaranth, cooked can be.

When you make cold amaranth or other cold vegetables, make sure that the water is boiling before adding the vegetables, so as to minimize the loss of vitamin C.

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