How to pickle sweet and sour ginger?

After being pickled, ginger actually tastes very good, especially for female friends, who also like this kind of food. The ingredients for pickled ginger are generally vinegar and sugar, which are mainly used to neutralize the irritating taste of ginger. This makes it taste sour and sweet, making it easier to swallow. It is also suitable for men, women, young and old, and it also has the effect of warming the uterus for female friends.

Benefits of Ginger

1. Anti-oxidation and tumor inhibition

The structures of gingerol and diphenylheptane compounds contained in ginger have strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging effects; they also have tumor inhibition effects; eating ginger can resist aging, and the elderly can remove "age spots" by eating ginger regularly.

2. Stimulate appetite and invigorate the spleen

In the hot summer, the body's saliva and gastric juice secretion will decrease, thus affecting appetite. If you eat a few slices of ginger before meals, it can stimulate the secretion of saliva, gastric juice and digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal motility and increase appetite. This is the reason why people often say "eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer" and "if the rice is not tasty, eat ginger".

3. Heatstroke prevention, cooling, and refreshing

Eating some ginger in hot weather can help stimulate sweating, reduce body temperature and refresh the mind. For patients with general symptoms of summer heat, such as dizziness, palpitations, chest tightness, nausea, etc., drinking some ginger soup is very beneficial. my country's traditional Chinese medicine for heatstroke prevention - Ren Dan contains ginger ingredients, which have the functions of strengthening the stomach, refreshing the mind and invigorating the brain.

4. Sterilize, detoxify, reduce swelling and relieve pain

Scientific research has found that ginger can play the role of certain antibiotics, especially against Salmonella. In hot temperatures, food is easily contaminated by bacteria, which grow and multiply quickly, easily causing acute gastroenteritis. Eating a moderate amount of ginger can play a preventive and therapeutic role. Ginger extract has the effect of significantly inhibiting skin fungi and killing Trichomonas vaginalis, and can treat various carbuncles and sores. In addition, ginger water can be used to gargle to treat bad breath and periodontitis.

5. Prevent motion sickness and stop nausea and vomiting

Eating ginger can prevent nausea and vomiting. If you have "exercise maladaptation syndrome" caused by certain exercises, eating some ginger can relieve it. Studies have shown that dried ginger powder is 90% effective in treating symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, nausea, and vomiting caused by exercise, and the efficacy can last for more than 4 hours. People use eating ginger to prevent motion sickness and seasickness, or applying it to the Neiguan acupoint, which has obvious effects, so it is known as the "holy medicine for vomiting".

How to make sweet and sour ginger

Choose fresh young ginger, wash and peel it, cut it into 1 mm thick slices and put it into a jar. Take 1 part of sugar, 1 part of vinegar and 1 part of soy sauce, mix and boil to make sweet and sour liquid. Add 30% of salt according to the total weight of the sweet and sour liquid, boil again, and after cooling, pour the liquid into the ginger jar until the ginger slices are completely submerged. Cover the ginger surface with bamboo net and press it with stones to prevent the ginger slices from losing the brine. Then seal the jar and marinate for about 15 to 25 days to get the fresh and tasty sweet and sour ginger slices.