pickled dried radish

White radish is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw and cooked. Its taste is slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase and crude fiber, which has the effects of promoting digestion, enhancing appetite, accelerating gastrointestinal peristalsis, and relieving cough and phlegm. Traditional Chinese medicine theory also believes that the taste is spicy and sweet, cool in nature, and enters the lungs and stomach meridians. It is a good food therapy and can treat or assist in the treatment of many diseases. The Compendium of Materia Medica calls it "the most beneficial among vegetables." Therefore, white radish has certain medicinal value in clinical practice. Today,"Rugao radish" has become famous at home and abroad for its advantages such as thin skin, tender meat, juicy, sweet but not spicy, less lignin, and chewable without residue. Proverbs such as "radish is loud and crunchy, and you can live to a hundred years old if you eat it" and "Yantai's apples and Laiyang's pears are not as good as Rugao's radish skins" have long been spread along with Rugao's radish.