Description
Various Local Organic Farms
🚚 The Fastest Delivery Time : 2-day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Place Of Origin：Various Local Organic Farms / Hong Kong
🔖 Certification： HKORC Certified
🌱 Producer Introduction：
In Hong Kong, more than 30% of the certified organic vegetables come from local certified organic farms, which is the largest source of certified organic vegetables besides the mainland (43.3%).
Organic certification helps increase consumer confidence in our industry's produce. All certified organic crops, from planting, fertilization to harvesting and sales, must comply with the requirements of the "Organic Crop Production, Aquaculture and Processing Standards" to ensure that the production of crops is responsible for the health of consumers and the environment.
When organic products need to be sold at the wholesale and retail level, consumers cannot have direct contact with producers, and consumers do not understand the production process; at this time, organic certification can be used as a transaction standard for both parties, and consumers can see the certification mark You can buy with confidence, and if you have doubts, you can also make inquiries or complaints to the certification body.
🌱 Supplier Products：
🛍 Product Information (Main) (English)：
Binomial Name：Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. var. chieh-qua How.
Chinese Name：節瓜
Other Names：Hairy Gourd
Product Description：The taste is sweet and light, and the nature is flat. It has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting body fluid and expelling summer heat, strengthening the spleen, and benefiting the large intestine. Zucchini contains carbohydrates, protein, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, choline, minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, iron and dietary fiber.
Zucchini is a variety of wax gourd, mainly distributed in Guangzhou and Nanhai in Guangdong Province, and also cultivated in Guangxi and Taiwan. It is also cultivated in places where overseas Chinese live in the Americas.
Variety：Also a cultivar of winter gourd, zucchini is densely bristly and 15 to 25 cm long.
Supply Season：The main production period is from May to October of the following year.
Storage Method：Store in a cool and ventilated place for 1 to 2 weeks.
#Should Be / Avoided：
Suitable: Chinese medicine believes that zucchini is more "righteous". It is suitable for people with edema and fullness, beriberi, phlegm and asthma, heat and depression.
Bogey: Zucchini has a mild nature and flavor, and there is nothing to avoid.
Pregnant women can eat zucchini
Nature: neutral
Five Flavors in TCM: sweet
Efficacy: diuretic and heat-clearing, promoting body fluid and dispelling heat, invigorating the spleen, benefiting the large and small intestine
Zucchini is rich in nutrients and contains carbohydrates, protein, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, riboflavin, fructose, carotene, and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, and iron. Zucchini has the functions of clearing heat, clearing heat, detoxifying, diuretic, and reducing swelling. Mothers-to-be often eat it during pregnancy, which is beneficial to eliminate edema and balance nutrition.
*Edible Compatibility：
Appropriate: No literature report. Taboo: No literature report.
Cooking Skills：The edible part is the fruit.
Notes：Zucchini is also called hairy gourd, because its surface is covered with fluff, the improved varieties currently on the market have reduced and shorter fluff.
Dish：Dried scallops with preserved melons and vermicelli with scallops.
Suggested Eating Method：
The edible part is fruit.
🥗 Recipe (English Version)：
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🔅Precautions (English Version)：
☘️ 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.
