There are many wild vegetables in the rural mountains, because these wild vegetables are grown in the wild, no one manages them, and there are many wild vegetables that people like to eat very much, especially in spring. Like small root garlic, shepherd's cabbage, houttuynia cordata, dandelion, etc., as long as the spring rises, they will grow one after another.
At this time, people will go to the wild place to look for them and come back to eat, among these wild vegetables, there is also a kind of wild vegetables, which used to be very famous and have"The King of Wild Vegetables".It can be seen that its value is not ordinary. A lot of people like to eat it, and you must see it at the cold vegetable market.
This wild vegetable is calledBrackenIt grows deep in the mountains, is a pure green wild vegetable, once loved by people, but now this bracken is rarely eaten, why is this? A lot of people don't understand.
First, the shape characteristics of bracken
First of all, let's know and understand what this bracken looks like, so that we can get a good understanding of it.
Bracken is a perennial herbaceous plant that prefers to grow in moist, fertile acidic soils, especially in humus soils under coniferous and broad-leaved forests. Its rhizomes grow creeping, the stems are erect, and they can reach more than a meter in height. The leaves are pinnae** with grayish-white hairs on the back and are very soft. The young leaves of bracken are curly, like green bamboo shoots, and the taste is fresh and tender, and it is one of the favorite wild vegetables of the people.
Second, what are the ways to eat bracken?
This kind of wild bracken, in the past, people picked those tender ones in the wild, and then used them to fry bacon and eat them as cold vegetables. Due to its unique taste and nutritional value, bracken was a very popular ingredient in the past.
In some regions, the bracken is even processed into various forms for sale and exported.
3. Why do many people stop eating bracken now?
Have you noticed that in many areas, this bracken is no longer popular with people, and there are several reasons.
The first is that there are a lot of dishes nowadays
Whether you are walking in the vegetable market or in the supermarket, there are all kinds of dishes, and you can buy anything you want.
Moreover, after processing, these dishes have great advantages in terms of taste, appearance and preservation, and gradually replace the position of these wild vegetables in the countryside.
The second is the increase in people's awareness of food safety
With the improvement of people's culture and the convenience of various information understanding, people's awareness of food safety has generally improved.
There are many kinds of bracken in the countryside in the wild, not all of them can be eaten, and it is inevitable that some bracken contains toxins, and people will have an impact on their bodies if they eat it.
In some places, the use of pesticides will inevitably contaminate these wild bracken, and if people eat them without their knowledge, they will cause poisoning. In order to avoid this situation, many places simply stop picking bracken in the wild to eat.
The third is that it is very troublesome to process bracken
Anyone who has eaten bracken knows that the stems of bracken in the countryside are covered with hairs, and when people eat them, they have to wash off these hairs, which is very troublesome to wash.
Moreover, this bracken is not something that can be boiled and eaten immediately after being picked, and it is very troublesome to boil it in boiling water and then rinse and soak it. Nowadays, people are afraid of trouble, so they don't want to pick and eat.
Friends, is this bracken found in your hometown? Do you still like to eat it? What do you think is the reason why many people don't like to eat this bracken anymore? Welcome to leave a message to share, thank you for your support.