Experts: flowers food cannot help yourself (legend)

"North Korea's drinking Magnolia pendant dew, evening meal Sophia of fallen flower" is an ancient description of edible flowers. Nowadays, Anshan catering market, to the flowers as the raw material of dishes are more and more women welcome. Many female Diners that flowers dishes not only tasty, but also aesthetic effect. However, the related experts tips consumers, currently there are no flowers food safety standards, don't blindly a taste of delicacy.

Recently, this reporter in Anshan city a well-known hotel in person to taste the dishes of several flowers, the attendant publicity to seize it, "sweet-scented osmanthus scallops" and "rose shrimp salad" and "Molly" flower dishes with a nurse. When asked about the source of the flowers, the waiter said, customers can rest assured that the flowers are fresh.

However, in the edible flowers dishes of the day, and the reporter, Ms. Kuo common meal to feel discomfort, itching and a slight nausea symptoms. By Anshan city hospital Dermatology white chikwe Director diagnosis, Ms. Kuo skin minor allergies, most likely with edible flowers dishes. This reporter has learned that the hospitals often admitted patients with edible flowers, the small number of allergies serious patients had symptoms of poisoning.

According to industry sources, edible flowers should be supplied directly to the ecological park, belonging to a special breed of green food safe for consumption. However, the high cost of green products, thereby driving the same too high, it is difficult to be accepted by the majority of customers. Some of the hotel and restaurant operators take into account the cost, not normally used special cultivation of flowers, and instead use the fragmented petals as flowers ingredients.

Anshan city health authority inspection psychiatrist told reporters that although flowers food is becoming more and more popular, but relatively speaking, edible flowers still is a small part of it, most of the flowers is not casual eating poisonous flowers also cause an allergic reaction, poisoning the body. In some areas there is a kind of flower food habits, but it does not mean that other people can follow. At present, there is no flowers food security related standards. Compared with the vegetables, the State vegetable residues are standard, but not on the flowers. Flowers in the cultivation process, growers will promote its rapid growth of fertilization, the colors are gorgeous. Hotel flowers food without sanitation quarantine and pesticide residue checks up on healthy eating. Therefore, edible flowers dishes should be careful.

This reporter has learned that the flowers of rich in protein, starch, amino acids and vitamin and trace elements necessary for the human body. These nutrients can supplement the lack of substance in the human body, but also to keep fit, skin beauty. Edible flowers you can eat section including bulbs, roots, leaves, buds, petal, pistil, however is not to say that all the flowers can cook. For example, a total of more than 30 lily varieties, but can eat only Lily and longan Lily both varieties. Some flowers such as Oleander, mandala, the poinsettia, narcissus, butterfly, red azalea, petals contain toxins, mistakenly eating light is in a coma, after weighing the life-threatening.