Ginkgoes Good morning, Ladies and gentlemen! Before I start my topic, I would like you to gue a riddle.It is a tree, and its another name is called “公孙树”.That means, when the grandfather plants it while the grandson can eat it.It belongs to gymnosperm.The seeds are like these.Its leaves look like fans.It is recognized as living foil and the god of longevity.Can you gue what it is? Here , the ginkgo! So I will give you a brief introduction about how to eat ginkgoes. The full view to look at ginkgo, the leaves, the nuts.The features of ginkgoes in four seasons.Here comes the ginkgo nuts whose cover are white, they taste a little bitter but rich in advanced nutritional tonic.They contain crude protein, crude fat , reducing sugar, nucleoprotein, minerals, crude fiber, and vitamins, etc.Eating ginkgo can anti-aging, expand capillaries and promote blood circulation.nutrition.
With so many advantages, you may want to know how to cook them, right? Next, I will show you.But before that, here are attentions.Ginkgoes can not be eaten if they are not cooked and fried.Do not eat too much even if they are prepared.Because these may result in poisoning.Symptoms are as follows.Le serious case, it will bring out discomfort in entire body, drowsine; Serious case, it will lead to vomit, cramp, appear purple lips, and breathe difficultly.So how to eat ginkgo nuts safely?
Clear away embryo(胚)and cotyledon(子叶); Boil them with fresh water; Without water and endopleura(内种皮), you can add water to cook them.Besides, the sprouted ones cannot be eaten.You cannot eat fish together.
How to cook? I will introduce them briefly.
First, it is the Spicy fried ginkgoes:
Take a dish of unshelled ginkgoes, and mix with spiced salt to fry.This ones also put shrimps, chillis and cucumbers. Then, the fried ginkgoes in stove.Put some ginkgoes into a paper bag, and then put them into the microwave to fry several minutes.It will be very delicious just like sunflower seeds but cannot be eaten too much.
Third , it is the ginkgo porridge.It is extremely sweet with ginkgo nuts, lotus nuts, peanuts ,melon seeds and some kinds of sweet fruits in it. Also there are ginkgo rice dumplings and ginkgo with sugar slice. Apart from that, ginkgoes have the other values.They are made into kinds of nourishments.Milk, juice and also wine.Also they have the ornamental value.You can see them in campus, in street, in parks. See the leaf, two parts united/ For so long, millions of years/Living there, stronger than mankind/Did survive fires and fears. There are five Ginkgo bases in China, and they are Pizhou in Jingsu province, Tancheng in Shandong province, Songdian, Taixing, and Shaoguan in Guangdong province.Among these areas Pizhou and Tancheng are the dense bases.
