Chinese Radish is a kind of white radish, and it is often bought in the market after winter.
Chinese Radish is narrower and slender than the white radish, which is a useful material for soup. Pick heavy body and a smooth skin would be the good Chinese radish.
Chinese radish not only clear away heat and dryness, but also relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
Common dishes: radish cake, radish sirloin, green carrot soup, braised pork skin with radish, pickled radish
Radish is a traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that it has a cool and sweet taste, which can relieve stagnation and help digestion, promote gastrointestinal motility, increase appetite, reduce phlegm and clear heat, promote body fluid and quench thirst, lower the breath, and detoxify. In addition, the juice of white radish also helps prevent the formation of gallstones. Turnips contain less calories and more fiber. They are easy to feel full after eating. They are ideal foods for people who lose weight and help lose weight. White radish skin contains more vitamin C than radish meat, so radish should be eaten with the skin and should not be wasted. The radish leaves also contain a lot of carotene and should not be discarded.
*The crowd should be avoided. It is suitable for ordinary people to eat. It is suitable for patients with poor bowel movements, bloating and heartburn, patients with bronchitis, and those with cough, sputum and asthma. Avoid: Stomach and duodenal ulcer, chronic gastritis, simple goiter, threatened abortion, uterine prolapse should not eat more. In addition, white radish is a cold and cold vegetable. People with cold physique and spleen and stomach should not eat more.
* Compatibility with food: White radish should be eaten together with tofu, because white radish can enhance the digestive function of the human body and can help the human body absorb the nutrients of tofu. Pork and white radish eat together, can invigorate the spleen, moisturize the skin, benefit the stomach, digest food, resolve phlegm, diuresis, hangover and other effects. Xiangke: When taking ginseng and American ginseng, it should not be eaten with white radish, so as not to reduce the tonic effect. White radish and red radish should not be eaten at the same time, because the enzyme in red radish will destroy the vitamin C in white radish and reduce its nutritional value. White radish should not be eaten with grapes, pineapples or persimmons, because this will easily induce swelling of the thyroid gland. White radish should not be eaten with fungus, because eating both together may cause skin sensitivity.
It is available throughout the year, and the productive period is from September to December.