Purple yam are rich in the anthocyanins

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Yam is blindly the traditional medicine and food quality. Has the enriching qi, zi kidney: fine, anti-aging effect. Cold-induced febride yam refers to the "Lord of the injury, tonify deficiency in addition to cold evil ways, fill in beneficial, long muscle strength. Long and smart, serve the intellectual man fit not hunger, a". Compendium of materia medica refers to the "benefit spleen, stomach and kidney diarrhoea, embellish the fur." All over the country many yam varieties, especially in henan huaiqing yam most famous, but mention purple yam, know that's not much.

        Purple yam, d. d., is of plants, also known as "baseboard potato", "" potato", "large fries" and so on, it is one of the yam varieties. In our plant has more than years of history, mainly grow in the south of the Yangtze river some provinces.

        In recent years, Beijing forestry academy of sciences research centre in vegetables the collection and analysis of the different components of the purple yam and nutrition physiological function, found that the rich in NianYeZhi, polysaccharide, protein and starch and minerals, especially the anthocyanins and potassium content is higher. The anthocyanins are pure natural anti-ageing nutritional supplements, its antioxidant properties 50 times higher than vitamin E, vitamin C than 20 times higher. It can not only prevent skin wrinkles the early generation, still can maintain normal cells, blood vessels, and the stability of the links to enhance tiny blood circulation, improve microvascular and venous flow, and then reach abnormal skin rapid healing. Purple yam contains allantoin, d. saponins positive health functional biological active ingredient, nutrition and medicinal value and huaiqing yam quite. Research shows that the purple yam is medicine and food emerging food resources, the lung, spleen fill kidney essence, fill: solid but not retained, not dry not hot, can and a variety of food collocation to eat. Here two models of purple yam menu:

        Purple yam steamed chicken

        Ingredients: three yellow chickens a, violet yam 300 grams, green ginger 25 g, wine 50 grams, refined salt, some pepper, 1 gram of 5 grams of oyster sauce, 15 g, Chinese prickly ash 1 g.

        Production: Turkey slaughter wash chicken bone hit back with broken, with green onion, ginger wine, Chinese prickly ash, refined salt, pepper, oyster sauce flooded about half a day to spare stains; Purple yam wash clean skin to dig the ball with ball dig.

        Pour hot chicken with boiling water in a bowl of soup, add onion, ginger yam ball, Chinese prickly ash, wine, refined salt, pepper, and clear soup with insurance film sealing, steam the steamed about 2 hours to take out and picked out green ginger, Chinese prickly ash can.

        This article, chicken fresh crisp lousy, to take off the bone, purple yam soft surface, described it rich.

        Purple MaTuan yam

        Ingredients: 200 g purple mountain powder, 300 g glutinous flour, 100 g sugar, 200 grams bean paste, sesame seed benevolence 75 grams, salad oil 750 grams.

        Production: glutinous rice powder, purple mountain powder, sugar, right amount water and into the dough, will the dough evenly into small JiZi under respectively, the bag after bean paste wrapped in sesame benevolence spare; Into boiling oil leaching Fried mature can.

        This article, appearance tidy, burnt face, sweet filling. (TanXin)