PRODUCT INFO Cowslip Creeper flowers grow on long and slender, vining plants that bear dark green, heart-shaped leaves averaging 4 to 8 centimeters in diameter. The vines are tough, maturing from green to brown, and alongside each leaf node, a cluster of 10 to 20 flowers appear seasonally. Each flower averages 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter and bears five angular petals, forming a star shape. When young, the flowers are green, eventually developing a yellow-green hue at the base with solid yellow petals once the bud opens. The flowers also emit a strong and pleasant, citrus-like fragrance that is especially pungent in the evening when in bloom. Cowslip Creeper flowers are crisp, succulent, and tender with a mild, vegetal, subtly sweet, and earthy flavor. USES Cowslip Creeper flowers are a seasonal ingredient used in Filipino, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, and Indian cuisine. The flowers can be consumed raw, incorporated into salads for added texture, or utilized as an edible garnish to decorate cakes, desserts, and main dishes. In addition to fresh preparations, Cowslip Creeper flowers can withstand cooking and readily absorb accompanying flavors, providing a mild earthiness and subtle crisp consistency to dishes. The flowers can be battered and fried, tossed into soups and curries, or stir-fried with oyster sauce. In Thailand, Cowslip Creeper flowers are popularly boiled and dipped in chile paste. In the Philippines, the flowers are cooked into a vegetable dish known as pinakbet and frequently mixed into omelets. Cowslip Creeper flowers pair well with noodles, rice, meats such as pork, beef, and fish, shrimp, eggs, tofu, aromatics such as garlic, ginger, and holy basil, pandan juice, coconut, and vegetables such as mushrooms, long beans, squash, eggplant, and mung beans. The flowers should be immediately consumed for the best quality and flavor. SEASONS Cowslip Creeper flowers are available in the late spring through early fall.
Sweet Potatoes : Sweet potato is a nutritious and rich natural nourishing food, rich in protein, fat, polysaccharide, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and 8 amino acids. According to the scientists, the protein content of more than 7 times the rice; carotene content is 3.5 times the carrot; vitamin A is 100 times the potato; sugar, calcium and vitamin B1, vitamin B2 content are higher than rice and flour. Each edible part of 100 grams of fresh potato meat containing carbohydrates 29.5g, fat 0.2g, phosphorus 20g, calcium 18g, iron 0.4g. These substances play an important role in promoting human brain cells and secreting hormone activity, enhancing human resistance to disease, improving immune function, delaying mental retardation and aging. Japan's Ministry of Health has classified it as an important food for diet.
Lotus Roots : 1. Heat and cool blood: Lotus root born with cold, with heat and cooling effect, can be used to treat hot disease; lotus root sweet and more liquid, fever thirst, Nvxue, hemoptysis, blood is particularly useful. 2. Laxative diarrhea, spleen appetizer: Lotus lotus contains mucin and dietary fiber, with the human body, the cholesterol and triglycerides in the human body, so that it is discharged from the feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance, but also contains tannins, there is a certain spleen diarrhea effect, can increase appetite, promote digestion, open stomach health, beneficial to poor appetite, loss of appetite were restored to health. 3. Yi Xue Sheng muscle: Lotus nutrient value is very high, rich in iron, calcium and other trace elements, plant protein, vitamins and starch content is also very rich, there are obvious tonic blood, enhance the role of human immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine called it: "the main fill in the spirit of God. 4. Hemostasis stasis: Lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, a contraction of blood vessels, can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus can also cooling blood, blood, Chinese medicine that hemostasis without leaving stasis, is the disease of hyperthermia diet to share.