Can you eat Dendrobium officinale after it blooms?

The price of Dendrobium officinale is usually quite expensive. Dendrobium officinale is a traditional Chinese medicinal material with very good health care effects. It is also very rich in nutrients and has many benefits on the body after consumption. For example, for people with weak bodies, consumption can enhance the body's immunity. It can also be used to treat many diseases. However, raw Dendrobium officinale can also be eaten.

Can you eat Dendrobium officinale after it blooms?

Can eat

Dendrobium officinale belongs to the orchid family. Dendrobium officinale flowers are very beautiful. The flowers of Dendrobium officinale are generally yellow-green with a few spots on the petals. If you plant Dendrobium officinale in large areas, you can smell a faint fragrance when it blooms. May and June every year is the peak flowering period of Dendrobium officinale, which is very beautiful.

Dendrobium candidum flower tastes sweet, slightly warm in nature, and is rich in a variety of volatile oil ingredients. The effects and functions of Dendrobium candidum flower are to benefit the stomach and produce fluid, soothe the liver and relieve depression, relieve acute pain, and relieve fatigue. The characteristics of the effect of Dendrobium candidum flower are "warm but not dry, nourishing but not greasy". Dendrobium candidum flower is a modern health and wellness product.

How to eat the flowers of Dendrobium candidum

Since fresh Dendrobium officinale flowers are difficult to preserve, they are usually processed into dried products, and different merchants may have different names for them. Not only does the timing of harvesting Dendrobium officinale flowers affect their active ingredients and content, but for dried flowers, the processing method is also the key to whether the active ingredients can be preserved. Therefore, when purchasing dried Dendrobium officinale flowers, these are factors we need to consider.

The usual way to eat dried Dendrobium officinale flowers is to brew them or boil them. You can brew them with boiling water alone without adding other tea leaves. You can add a little rock sugar according to your personal taste. After brewing until there is no taste, you can take out the flowers and chew them.

How to eat Dendrobium candidum flowers

1. Soak or boil

The method is the same as dried flowers, which can nourish the skin and clear the mind, clear away heat and thirst, and relieve eye fatigue;

2. Juicing

Take an appropriate amount of fresh flowers of Dendrobium candidum, rinse them slightly, put them into a juicer, add water (preferably warm water) to squeeze the juice, pour it out and drink it directly. Similarly, add an appropriate amount of honey or rock sugar according to personal taste (but it is recommended to put as little as possible);

3. Make soup

Cook with diced chicken, add Dendrobium officinale flowers during slow cooking, and you can also add some wolfberry to cook together;

4. Scrambled eggs with Dendrobium officinale

The method is very simple, and it is the same as scrambled eggs with chives, but the taste and nutritional value are very different;

5. Dendrobium candidum flower cake

Yunnan's flower cakes are very distinctive and famous, and the Dendrobium officinale flower cakes have perfectly grafted this way of eating flowers. But if you make it yourself, the process is simpler, just fry it in a frying pan.