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Mrs Chow Happy Farm
🚚 Fastest Delivery Time : 2-day Delivery. In Tin Shui Wai and Tuen Mun Yuen Long districts, the fastest delivery possible is the next day, directly from the farm.
🐝 Supplier / Origin：Mrs Chow Happy Farm / Mong Tseng Wai, Tin Shui Wai
🔖 Certification： Not HKORC Certified
🌱 About the Producer / Supplier：
I am a happy farmer who wants everyone to eat healthy and happy organic vegetables without pesticides or chemical fertilizers 😊.
Because I have seen that the vegetables grown with pesticides are so beautiful, but if we eat them, there will be problems in our stomachs. So no matter how hard it is for me, I like the organic vegetables I grow myself. I feel safe eating them. I want others to do the same. It’s healthy, so I want to share it with people🙏🙏
🌱 Supplier Productss：
🛍 Product Information：
Binomial Name：Musa sapientum L., Musa 'Paradisiaca'
Chinese Name：香蕉花 | 香蕉心
Other Names：Banana Blossoms
Product Description：It is the fruit of the banana plant of the Musaceae family. Sweet, cold in nature. It has the functions of clearing away heat, moistening the intestines, detoxifying, clearing the pulse and lowering blood pressure. Bananas are rich in potassium and cellulose, the former is beneficial to the balance of blood pressure and the contraction of the heart muscle, and the latter is beneficial to prevent constipation.
Evolved from M. acuminata, it is distributed in Malaysia and southern China. Planting in China began in the sixth century AD. It was introduced to Africa from Malaysia in the seventh century. Introduced to Central America in the fifteenth century. Introduced to Australia in the 16th century. It has become the most widely distributed and highest yield tropical and subtropical fruit in the world.
Bananas are also a natural antacid. Because bananas are very good for digestion and absorption, everyone from children to the elderly can eat them with peace of mind and provide balanced nutrition. It can help the brain create a chemical component-serotonin, which can stimulate the nervous system and give the body a healthy diet. People bring joy, calm and drowsy signals, and even have an analgesic effect.
Variety：Female and males in a same tree, among which the male flowers are born on the top and the flowers are below; the bracts are brown red or purple, and the petals are yellow. The fruit is oblong, like a tetrahedron, with many black cores inside.
Supply Season：Available year-round in Hong Kong.
Storage Method：It is suitable for storage at 10 ~ 25 ℃. If the temperature is too low, it will freeze and damage it. Therefore, it should not be kept in the refrigerator for a long time. The best time to put it in the refrigerator is three to five days.
Should Be / Avoided：
Appropriate: It is suitable for people with fever, polydipsia, dryness of lungs, cough, constipation, hemorrhoids, and people with high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, tuberculosis, and cancer.
Contraindications: Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and chronic bronchitis should eat less; those with asthma and phlegm should not eat more. Bananas contain high potassium. Patients with acute and chronic nephritis should not eat more, so as not to increase the potassium concentration in the blood rapidly and aggravate the condition. People with arthritis or muscle pain should not eat more, because bananas can slow down local blood circulation and accumulate metabolites. In addition, bananas contain high sugar content, which can easily increase the consumption of vitamin B in the body after eating, causing joint or muscle pain. aggravated.
An in vitro experiment conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009 found that a lectin contained in bananas can promote the production of tumor necrosis factor-α, which can kill cancer cells, interleukin-2, which regulates immunity, and interferon gamma. Produced, and can inhibit the proliferation of leukemia cell line L1210 cell line and human liver cancer cell line (HepG2).
Bananas are rich in dietary fiber and have a good laxative effect. In addition, they contain pectin ingredients, which can fully lubricate the intestinal tract, speed up the passage of feces, prevent waste from staying in the intestinal tract, avoid the production of carcinogens, and effectively prevent bowel cancer. Bananas contain oligosaccharides, which can reduce the bad bacteria in the intestines and increase the good bacteria in the intestines. Although it is named for its high sweetness, the calories of a banana with a net weight of about 100 grams are about one Half or less of rice.
Pregnant women can eat a small amount of bananas:
Pregnant women are particular about eating bananas. Eat less in the early stages of pregnancy, so as not to cause diarrhea or high sugar intake. You can eat one a day in the middle and late stages. Bananas are rich in potassium, which can help pregnant women excrete excess sodium ions and control blood pressure. It is a good food for preventing pregnancy-induced hypertension. In addition, it is rich in dietary fiber. Pregnant women eating bananas can stimulate gastrointestinal motility and help defecation.
Food Compatibility：
Suitable: 1. Bananas and cheese: The magnesium contained in bananas and the calcium in cheese can promote the absorption of calcium and help prevent osteoporosis. 2. Bananas and Peanuts: The nicotinic acid in bananas and the tryptophan in peanuts can increase the content of nicotinic acid and help maintain the health of the skin, digestion and nervous system.
Cooking Tips：The fruit is elongated and ribbed. The peel is yellow and the pulp is creamy white. It is suitable to be eaten raw, can also be made into salads, or made into non-staple foods such as banana cakes and dried bananas.
Precautions：When the banana is fully ripe on the banana tree, the peel is easy to crack, which is not conducive to handling and storage. Therefore, most of the harvests are more than 7 to 8 minutes ripe, and the pericarp is still in a green state and begins to harvest, so it is usually not a fruit that can be eaten immediately. We are neither suitable for fasting or excessive consumption; nor are we suitable for eating immature plantains. Bananas contain fructose that is easily absorbed by babies. For lactase-deficient babies who are watery and diarrhea, they can be fed as a staple food.
Bananas sold in the market either use chemical ripening agents such as ethylene to control the ripening time, or use 2-chloroethylphosphonic acid commonly known as "ethephon" to accelerate ripening.
The skin of the banana is green when the banana is immature, yellow when ripe, and black when oxidized. People don't usually eat banana peels when eating bananas, but some studies have shown that banana peels have higher nutritional benefits than banana pulp, including lowering cholesterol, replenishing electrolytes, and intake of dietary fiber. According to expert research, banana peels are rich in tryptophan, which can be converted into serotonin, which helps ease emotions. There are many ways to eat it. For example, wash the whole banana with its skin and cut it into pieces, put it in a juicer, add a little honey and a glass of milk to make banana milk.
traditional medicine
In traditional Chinese medicine, the stems, flowers, leaves and rhizomes of plantains are believed to have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, quenching thirst and diuresis. The pulp effect can deal with constipation.
Dishes：
Desserts such as candied bananas. Some people like to use bananas to make cakes. Occasionally used as fiber, banana wine, banana beer.
🔸 Supplementary Information：
Plant different vegetables according to the season, avoid using chemical fertilizers, and be environmentally friendly. I will use grass, spoiled fruits and vegetables, coffee, tea, dregs, and egg shells as fertilizer. I want everyone around me to be healthy and happy ☺️
Pre-orders are available once a week. Supply is subject to arrival and may be shipped separately.
🥗 Product Categories (English)： Banana Blossoms
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🔅 Remark：
☘️ 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 (this is organic farm, but will have, but not chemical, except to Re-generative Farm). 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.
