What vegetables do you eat for the Lantern Festival in Huzhou, Zhejiang?

Eat lettuce at the Lantern Festival in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Cooking with lettuce and cake, because lettuce has the meaning of making money, it represents the meaning of auspiciousness and wealth. Lettuce is native to the Mediterranean coast of Europe and domesticated from wild varieties. The ancient Greeks and Romans ate it first.

The common name of lettuce is lettuce leaf, also called goose feather lettuce, mashed lettuce and lettuce, which belongs to the genus Lettuce in Compositae. It is an annual or biennial herb crop with long obovate leaves and dense cabbage shape, which can be eaten raw, crisp and slightly sweet.

Main value

Medicinal value, lettuce is sweet and cool, because its stems and leaves contain lettuce, so it tastes slightly bitter, and has the effects of clearing away heat and refreshing, relieving pain and hypnosis, lowering cholesterol, and adjuvant treatment of neurasthenia. Lettuce contains mannitol and other effective ingredients, which has the effects of diuresis and blood circulation, liver-clearing and gallbladder-benefiting.

Health care value, lettuce contains interferon inducer, which can stimulate normal cells to produce interferon, resist viruses and improve human immunity. Lettuce contains a substance called protocatechuic acid, which has obvious inhibitory effect on cancer cells, especially in resisting digestive system cancers such as gastric cancer, liver cancer and colorectal cancer. Lettuce is rich in vitamin C and has certain whitening effect.

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