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What are the characteristics of snack candied haws?

Sugar-coated haws, also known as sugar-coated haws, are called sugar piers in Tianjin and sugar balls in Fengyang, Anhui. Sugar-coated haws are traditional snacks of Han nationality in China. It is made by stringing wild fruits with bamboo sticks and dipping them in malt syrup, which quickly hardens in the wind. The common snacks in northern winter are generally made of hawthorn, and the syrup is frozen hard, which tastes sour and sweet, and it is still very cold.

1. Successful candied haws, when the sugar wrapped outside is cooked, it will cool quickly, and the bite will be crisp and completely non-sticky.

2. Sugar-coated haws are rich in vitamin C, pectin, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, maslinic acid, oleanolic acid, quercetin, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, hyperoside, epicatechin and other organic acids and nutrients. It is a natural nutritious food with bright color, no pigment, no food additives and good taste by using modern technology to remove the core.

Hawthorn has many medicinal effects. It can help digestion, dispel blood stasis, expel tapeworms, stop dysentery, and especially help digestion. It has been an important medicine for digestion since ancient times, especially for digestion. Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, once said: When cooking hard chicken, put a few pieces of hawthorn into it, which is easy to rot and the product will disappear, so you can push the lid.

4. Hawthorn also has the function of lowering blood lipid and serum cholesterol.