Rural wild fruit 'Dishu' is covered with thorns. Can it be eaten when it is mature? What's it worth?

Introduction: Rural wild fruit "Dishu" is covered with thorns. Can it be eaten when it is mature? What's it worth?

The little friends who grew up in the countryside should have eaten some wild fruits more or less.

Especially a few decades ago, rural children had no snacks to eat, and they spent almost all day in the mountains, just to find all kinds of wild fruits to eat.

How about a wild fruit called dì niè? Its fruit is covered with thorns, and when it matures, it is jet-black, especially in the rural mountains in the past. So what kind of plant is it, and can it be eaten? let's figure it out together!

What kind of plant is sagebrush?

Diwali is a common plant in the southern region. It is also called Divine Grape, Thorn Grape, or Water Soup, Tikletosaurus.

This is a small creeping shrub plant belonging to the Peony family and the genus Peony. Its plants are generally not tall, about 10-30CM high. The leaves of this plant are hard and papery, mainly oval and elliptical. The plants are rough and hairy when young, and become smooth as they mature.

The flowering period is from April to June every year, and the fruit period is from June to September. Its flowers are cymes, terminal, and the petals are light red or purple, and the fruit is a spherical The berries are not big, generally 0.5-1.5CM, and you can see the bulges like spikes on them. It turns purplish red when mature, so it is a very recognizable plant.

In the past, this plant was found on many hills in the countryside. It does not have high requirements for the growing environment. It often grows in the low grasses on the hillsides below 1300 meters above sea level. This plant actually has strong vitality, and is resistant to cold, drought and barren, and grows rapidly. In particular, it likes to grow in some acidic soil environments, and it grows into a large area.

Can the fruit of the sage be eaten? Higher calcium content than milk

In the countryside, many people didn't pay much attention to the wild fruit, and only a very small number of rural children would pick and eat it occasionally. Some people think it can't be eaten because of its scary appearance. In fact, it is a very good wild fruit, not only edible, but also of high nutritional value.

Dipsambus is a juicy berry that turns purplish-black when ripe. And at this time, it is very delicious and juicy to eat. It is also very simple to eat. Although there are thorn-like protrusions on the outer peel, as long as it is peeled off, the red pulp inside will be exposed, and its red juice will flow out.

It tastes sweet and sour when you put it in your mouth, especially its high sweetness and a little sour taste, very delicious. In the past, when the rural children came to the summer vacation, they would ask their friends to go out in the wild to pick sage and eat it as a snack. Many people eat in a hurry, not only their mouths and faces are dyed red by the earthworm, but even their hands and clothes will be dyed by it.

It is very difficult to wash off some light-colored clothes if the juice of the sage drops. Even if it is on the mouth and fingers, it will take a few days to gradually fade. It is also for this reason that Diwali is also used as a natural pigment in food processing, because the fruits and pigments of Diwali are innocuous. toxic side effects.

What's more worth mentioning is that the nutritional value of the wild fruit is still very high. This wild fruit is rich in reducing sugar, accounting for 96.34% of the total sugar; and there is also a large amount of vitamin C, its content is similar to that of traditional fruit pear, Bananas are comparable. In addition, there are 16 kinds of amino acids and various mineral elements such as potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, iron, manganese, copper, and zinc in dill.

Especially in its mineral content, the calcium content is very prominent, reaching 7328.4mg/kg, which is higher than the calcium content of milk, so it is a veritable high calcium fruit, which can be used as a natural calcium supplement food.

In fact, not only can be eaten fresh as a wild fruit, it is also commonly used in the folk to make wine and make fruit wine, and it also has very high nutritional and medicinal value.

In the vast Hakka area, people like to use Dishu to make wine, and there is also a classic nursery rhyme related to it: "July 7, Dishu drips; August 8, Dishu da da; On September 9th, Dishu is sweeter than wine; in August and a half, Dishuwu is half; on September 9th, Dishuwu is smooth; in October, when it is dry, Dishu is sweeter than wine and fermented grains.” In fact, it’s all Dishu itself. There is a wine smell after fermentation.

Dishu wine is mainly used to nourish qi and blood, adjust yin and yang, and local people also use it to stew soup. The more classic is Dishu pork loin soup, which is also the most popular health soup in the Hakka area who loves to make soup. It is mainly a soup made of Dishu and pork loin, which can not only supplement nutrition, improve physical fitness, but also beauty The effect of beauty, waist and Qi.

But it is a pity that in recent years, it has been difficult to see the earthworm in many places. Like a few decades ago, in July and August, the scorpions all over the mountains are ripe, and you can smell its fruity fragrance from a distance. But later, with the massive planting of eucalyptus in various places, many wild plants gradually disappeared, including the wild plant Dioscorea.

It is also due to the fact that there are fewer dillhus in the past, but its popularity has been significantly improved, and the public's awareness of health care has improved, so the common dill in the past has now become a rare commodity. This wild fruit is sold in the market. The price has also gone up all the way, and in some places, fresh sage can be sold for twenty or thirty yuan per catty.

Now this season, the sage has matured in large quantities. If you have this wild fruit in your hometown, don't forget to pick some, eat it fresh, make wine, or drink it in stew. Even if you can't finish eating it, you can dry it and save it for later use.