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What's the difference between betel nut in Hunan and betel nut in other areas?

1, the process is different:

Hunan betel nut has perfect and safe processing technology and special secret recipe, so the taste of Hunan betel nut is completely different from that of Taiwan Province native betel nut. Hunan betel nut is purer, more delicate, more sweet and chewy, and there are many varieties, which is why Hunan betel nut is so popular, although it does not produce betel nut.

2. The taste is different:

Areca nut is thin, green and astringent when chewed, so it is not very popular. Every year in late autumn, vendors in Xiangtan, large and small, gather in Hainan Island, often holding a betel nut forest in their own hands and enjoying the acquisition patent right. In recent years, the betel nut business in Xiangtan has become more and more prosperous, and the betel nut producing area has been snapped up. The purchase price has also risen rapidly from tens of yuan a load in the 1970s to two or three thousand yuan a load. As a result, the planting area of betel nut trees in Hainan Island has soared.

People in Hunan like to eat peppers and pickled products, so eat areca also eats pickled products. Usually, after buying dried fruit from Hainan, wash it with clear water, scald it with boiling water, spray a small amount of saccharin water or other sweetener water, and store it for about 24 hours before eating. Before eating, cut the betel nut into two or four petals with a knife, and light the brine boiled with lime and maltose. Some people like to order a drop of cinnamon oil and chew it repeatedly in their mouths. Sweet and astringent, full of fragrance. The more you chew, the better it tastes.

Main value:

Areca nut contains many nutrients and beneficial substances needed by human body.

Betel nut also contains more than 20 kinds of trace elements, of which 1 1 is an essential trace element for human body. Areca seed contains 0.3%-0.6% of total alkaloids, mainly arecoline, and a small amount of arecoline, norarecoline, isonorarecoline, arecoline and homoarecoline, all of which coexist with tannic acid. There are also dimers, trimers and tetramers of tannin, fat, mannitol, galactose, sucrose, catechin, epicatechin, colorless anthocyanin, areca catechu red pigment, saponin and proanthocyanidins.

According to the statistics of drug administration, there are 225 kinds of drugs containing betel nut in China. According to traditional medicine, Areca catechu has the efficacy of "killing insects and breaking accumulation, reducing qi and stagnation, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness" and has been used to treat parasitic infections such as tapeworms, hookworms, roundworms and ginger worms.

Simo Decoction, which consists of areca nut, linderae root, ginseng and agarwood, is mainly used to treat "seven emotions against qi, shortness of breath in the morning, making people stop eating and stuffy food". There is a folk tradition that babies take Simotang one week after birth. It is said that it is good for the child's stomach, and it won't make trouble in the future.

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