Some people pick wild amaranth from hillsides and other places, wash it and eat it, but they also encounter some amaranth. Many people don't know whether amaranth is wild or not. Does wild amaranth have thorns? Let's get to know each other.

Does amaranth have thorns?

Amaranth spinosa is a kind of wild amaranth.

Wild amaranth mainly includes Amaranth retroflexus, Amaranth, Amaranth spinosa and so on. Amaranth can also be used as garden ornamental plants. Amaranth is widely distributed. Amaranth is the most common in East China. You can see it on the hillside, in the fields and in the flower beds in the park. In fact, Amaranthus spinosa is an exotic species, native to America, and now distributed all over the country.

Amaranthus spinosa is panicum miliaceum of Amaranthaceae, with a height of 30- 100 cm and thorns in the axils (the junction of leaves and stems). It tastes like amaranth.

Amaranth mainly eats buds and stems. Picking buds in spring. Eat like amaranth. Be careful not to pick the barbed ones. Generally speaking, buds are not spiny. In East China, in addition to cooking and fishing for cold salad, soup, eggs and amaranth soup are often made. The taste is better than that of common wild amaranth, and the nutritional value is higher.

Is wild amaranth the same as spiny amaranth?

Amaranth alias: Amaranth spinosa, Amaranth spinosa, Amaranth spinosa, Amaranth pseudospinosa, Amaranth spinosa, Amaranth spinosa.

It belongs to Orchidaceae, and the red stalk is the best. The effect of plant amaranth is similar to that of wild amaranth.

This product is the dried whole grass or root of Amaranthus spinosa. Harvesting in summer and autumn, removing sediment, drying or fresh cutting, and drying.

Amaranth usually picks stems, leaves and thorns in summer and autumn. Make moldy vegetable stalks. The production method is the same as that of moldy amaranth stalks.

Wash it, cut it into small pieces of 3-5cm, put it in a jar, seal it, and you can eat it in a week. Delicious, you can steam stinky tofu or cook it directly. However, it has a pungent smell, which some people may not be able to stand. Other edible methods of wild amaranth are similar.

What are the benefits of eating more wild amaranth?

Amaranth is cool, slightly sweet and enters the lungs and intestines;

Has the effects of clearing away dampness and heat, and clearing away liver and toxic materials.