Green At Heart
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🐝 Supplier / Origin : Green At Heart / China
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🌱 Importer introduction:
We want to promote special style of frozen foods made in Hong Kong without additives: no MSG, no preservatives, no colouring, no flavour enhancers, rich fillings and hand-made in Hong Kong!
"Green At Heart" started operations in 2007 and had 2 retail stores before 2016. The owner imports a variety of organic and natural dry goods from the United States and Taiwan. Now it mainly focuses on imported organic fresh produce, such as tomatoes, beetroot, carrots, Dutch onions, pumpkins, oranges, lemons, Spanish sweet potatoes, ginger, Peruvian bananas, there are more than 10 kinds, all carefully selected by the owner, Peggy.
The founder Peggy is also an advocate of food therapy based on the principles of Chinese medicine. From 2011 to 2018, she took various diploma and certificate courses in food therapy. Simple food can easily solve some disturbing chronic health problems, which surprised her.
In November 2021, "Green At Heart" launched 6-8 kinds of vegan soups, dumplings and meatballs made in Hong Kong using organic fresh produce imported from the Netherlands. More vegan and low GI projects are in preparation. Hope to get your support to make our work more valuable.
🛍 Product Information :
#basic introduction
Porphyra is a kind of seaweed belonging to the red algae family. It is delicious and rich in protein, iodine, and various vitamins. Regular consumption can help lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and treat thyroid inflammation and beriberi. Seaweed is cold in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the effect of cooling off heat, diverting water and reducing swelling and softening.
Variety
There are also many types of seaweed, and there are more than 50 varieties of seaweed produced in the world. Among them, there are more than ten species grown in the coastal provinces of China. The main ones are the round laver, the long laver with a thin body, the brown-green altar laver, and more than ten varieties such as side laver and sweet laver. Generally, the algae are purple, 12 to 30 cm high, and the cultured seaweed can be up to 4 meters long. The color is red purple, green purple or black purple, and it is purple after drying.
supply season
Available all year round in Hong Kong. Seaweed is harvested in stages, starting from late autumn to March to May of the following year
How to buy
The surface is smooth and moist, purple-brown or purple-red, shiny and not dull, thin slices, uniform in size, fresh in taste, not salty, tender and light in body, water content not exceeding 8% to 9%, with the unique fragrance of seaweed, no Impurities are top grade.
Storage method Usually sealed and kept in a cool and dry environment. If necessary, store it in the refrigerator for a longer period of time.
#* Taboo crowd
Suitable for goiter, edema, chronic bronchitis, gonorrhea, beriberi, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and other patients. Those with spleen and stomach deficiency should not eat; those with abdominal pain and loose stools should not eat. Modern medicine has proven that it has the effect of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol and preventing heart disease. Regular food also helps to prevent arteriosclerosis. More suitable for the treatment of goiter, lymph node nuclei, beriberi, bronchitis, etc., you can often chew dried seaweed, which has a significant effect.
#*Food compatibility
Seaweed with purple cabbage (purple cabbage) can play a better role; seaweed with eggs can supplement vitamin B12 and calcium. Seaweed should not be paired with persimmons, as it will affect calcium absorption.
cooking tips
Soak hair with water before eating, and change the water 1 to 2 times to remove pollution and toxins
#Remarks
Seaweed is the collective name for the alternate algae in the sea. Porphyra is often mistaken for a plant because of its ability to photosynthesize; however, biologists generally agree that it is not a true plant because it lacks true duct tissue (xylem and phloem), unlike seagrass.
common dishes
Seaweed Tofu Soup, Seaweed Tomato Egg Drop Soup, Sushi
Approach:
After washing, you can make soup again
storage method:
Put it in a cool and ventilated place; if it is expected to take a long time before eating, it is recommended to put it in the refrigerator (0-3℃).
