Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is famous at home and abroad for its "sour but not astringent, fragrant but slightly sweet, strong color and light taste". This kind of vinegar has five characteristics: "color, fragrance, taste, alcohol and strong", and is most used in Jiangnan and Guangdong.
Taste: Compared with Zhenjiang vinegar, Shanxi mature vinegar has stronger sour taste and mellow taste, while the latter has lighter sour taste, stronger fragrance and slightly sweet taste.
Usage: Shanxi mature vinegar is often used in pasta dishes, such as Daoxiao Noodles, minced meat noodles, Lamian Noodles or jiaozi dipping sauce; Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar can be used in cold salad or cooked vegetables, which plays a role in seasoning, enhancing fragrance, appetizing and stimulating appetite.
Zhenjiang vinegar is very famous overseas. It has the characteristics of "color, fragrance, acid, alcohol and strong", "acid but not astringent, fragrant but slightly sweet, strong color and fresh taste", and has won many awards at home and abroad. The longer the storage time, the more mellow the taste. This is because it has a unique geographical environment and unique exquisite craftsmanship. Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar is made of high-quality glutinous rice as the main raw material, using excellent acid and vinegar strains, through three processes of solid-state layered fermentation, brewing, fermented grains and vinegar soaking, more than 40 processes, lasting more than 70 days, and then stored for 6- 12 days before leaving the factory.
Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is used to mix cold dishes, slippery vegetarian dishes, cook fish and stew chickens and ducks. It can enhance flavor, remove fishy smell, relieve boredom, stimulate appetite, promote fluid production and quench thirst. It is really an excellent condiment. Known as "the top grade in vinegar" at home and abroad.
Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is also called Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar. The word "Xiang" indicates that Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar has a unique fragrance compared with other kinds of vinegar. Zhenjiang vinegar belongs to black vinegar/black vinegar, and its preparation method is that glutinous rice is added with acetic acid bacteria, refined and aged.
Zhenjiang vinegar affects the local diet. The delicacies in Zhenjiang area are famous for their dishes, dishes and noodles. "Yao" is meat, and "Dian" is snacks, such as soup packets, steamed dumplings, steamed dumplings, dried silk and so on. And "noodles" are noodles cooked with Yao soup as the bottom, also called "pot cover noodles". When local people cook these dishes, they are often drenched with Zhenjiang vinegar. Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is also a common condiment in daily cooking, or used as a sauce. One of them is to dip ginger into Zhenjiang vinegar when eating hairy crabs to neutralize the coldness of crabs.
According to a study on vinegar in Japan, Zhenjiang vinegar has a high content of amino acids, which helps to inhibit human aging and prevent various senile diseases.
The legend of Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar
Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is famous at home and abroad. Its color is thick and fresh, fragrant and slightly sweet, sour but not astringent, and it is known as "fragrant vinegar does not rot".
According to legend, balsamic vinegar was invented by Heita, the son of wine saint Du Kang.
In the year when Du Kang invented brewing, his family came to Zhenjiang and opened a small trough outside the city to brew and sell wine. My son Heita helped his father make wine, carried water and jars in the workshop and raised a dark horse.
One day, Heita finished her work, added several buckets of water to the wine jar in the jar, happily lifted the wine jar and drank several kilograms of rice wine in one breath. The rice wine had enough stamina, and before long, Heita went back to the stable to sleep drunk. Suddenly, there was a thunder in my ear, and Heita opened her eyes in a daze and saw an old man with white hair standing in the room. He smiled and said to him, "Heita, you have brewed flavoring nectar for 21 days, and you can taste it today." Heita was about to ask again when the old man was gone. And he shouted: "Xian Weng, Xian Weng!" I woke up with a start, what I saw and heard in my dream just now.
Black tower recalled what happened in the dream just now and felt very strange. This jar is just distiller's grains for horses, with a few buckets of water added. How can it be flavored nectar? Heita doubted this, but in fact, she felt her lips and tongue dry, so she drank a bowl. Who knows, after drinking it, I just feel delicious, sour and sweet, refreshing and comfortable.
Heita strode into his father's room and told him everything he had just seen in his dream and tasted. Du Kang felt proud when he heard this, so he went to the stable with the black tower and saw that the water in the tank was different from the past, black and transparent. Dip it with your fingers and send it to your mouth to taste. Sure enough, it tastes sweet and sour.
Du Kang asked Heita again in detail, pondered over the "21st" and "Youshi" that the old man said for a long time, and while comparing pictures with his hands, he suddenly grabbed Heita and wrote on the ground with his fingers: "Twenty-one Youshi, this adds up to the word' vinegar', maybe the dew is' vinegar'!"
From then on, Du Kang and his son added water to the wine jar in the jar according to the old man's suggestion. After 2 1 day brewing, vinegar was brewed in the vat, and then a hole was drilled in the vat, and the vinegar flowed out continuously. Du Kang and his son gave this flavored nectar to their neighbors for tasting, and the neighbors repeatedly said it was good. Before long, all the neighbors came to buy it. The vinegar was sold in Zhenjiang City and spread to Zhenjiang City, where it became famous everywhere.
Later, Zhenjiang people found that vinegar would not go bad after being put for a long time, but it would become more and more mellow. "Sweet vinegar is not rotten" has become a major feature of Zhenjiang vinegar.
Vinegar is not only a good condiment in our life, but also has many other functions, mainly including:
1, vinegar can eliminate fatigue, and moderate consumption of vinegar can eliminate fatigue, especially health vinegar.
2. The function of vinegar can mediate the acid-base balance of blood.
3. The function of vinegar can help digestion and facilitate absorption. Can help people take calcium effectively.
4, the role of vinegar can prevent aging.
5, the role of vinegar can enhance the bactericidal ability of gastrointestinal tract.
6, the role of vinegar can enhance liver function.
7. The function of vinegar can dilate blood vessels and prevent cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
8, the role of vinegar can enhance renal function.
9. The function of vinegar can be bodybuilding and weight loss.
10, vinegar can beautify and protect skin. This is because the main component of vinegar is acetic acid, which has a strong bactericidal effect and can protect skin and hair well. Cleaning the skin with vinegar water can make the skin absorb some urgently needed nutrients, thus softening the skin and enhancing its vitality. )
1 1. The function of vinegar can prevent cancer. Recently, the joint research team of Kanazawa Medical University and Kyoto University confirmed that black vinegar with brown rice as raw material has anti-cancer effect through mouse experiments.
If you can make good use of vinegar, there are some unexpected effects:
1, the role of vinegar can also treat insomnia-insomnia patients pour a glass of cold water before going to bed, add 1 spoon of vinegar, and fall asleep soon after drinking it. Rubbing your feet with warm old vinegar before going to bed will also make you fall asleep easily.
2, the role of vinegar can treat sprains-mix the flour into a paste, add a proper amount of old vinegar, apply it on paper or gauze, and stick it on the affected area. When it's dry, gently uncover it and put it on. Sticking it several times can eliminate the burning sensation and pain at the sprain. This method is effective for trauma such as dislocation of bone and joint and traumatic injury.
3, the role of vinegar can treat rhinitis-put about 5 ml of aged vinegar into a washer with a capacity of 1000 ml to wash the nose, 1, twice a day, can treat rhinitis.
4, the role of vinegar can treat foot numbness-heat 1 liter old vinegar into a bucket, and then soak your feet for 20 minutes at a time. Soak in this way for 4~5 times, and the symptoms of numbness can be alleviated.
5, the role of vinegar can treat burns-according to the principle of acid-base neutralization, vinegar is made into a 5 degree solution to wash burns, especially suitable for lime burns. Or apply it to the scald with gauze soaked in vinegar, which can also be effective.
6, the role of vinegar can cure cough-soak garlic in old vinegar 15 days later, eat 1~2 cloves of soaked garlic on an empty stomach every morning and drink some vinegar juice. Taking 10~ 15 days can relieve cough and asthma, detoxify and dissipate blood stasis, reduce blood pressure and lipid, and prevent infectious diseases and tumors in the elderly.
7, the role of vinegar can treat hypertension-soak 500 grams of peanut jumpsuit in old vinegar for more than 7 days, stir once a day, chew 3~5 capsules every night before going to bed, 7 days can relieve arteriosclerosis.
8, the role of vinegar can be beautiful-250 grams of coix seed, soaked in 500 ml of mature vinegar, sealed before use 10 days, taking a spoonful of vinegar every day, can make the skin white and tender, and reduce pigment.
9, the role of vinegar can treat gastritis-100 grams of ginger washed and cut into filaments, put in 250 ml of old vinegar and sealed for 3 days, take it on an empty stomach every morning,10 ml can treat chronic gastritis.
10, the role of vinegar can prevent motion sickness-for people who are prone to motion sickness and seasickness, drinking a cup of warm water with old vinegar before departure will make you comfortable for a long time.
1 1, the function of vinegar can relieve fatigue-when you are tired from a journey, adding a little old vinegar to the bath water can make your skin smooth, relax your muscles and relieve fatigue.
12, the role of vinegar can stop bleeding-plug the nostrils with cotton dipped in old vinegar to stop bleeding.
13, vinegar can prevent the flu-"flu" season. Fumigating the room with vinegar can disinfect the air and prevent colds; Decocting with aged vinegar and salt can also stop vomiting and diarrhea.
14, the role of vinegar can cure arthritis-mixing aged vinegar, wheat bran and iron ore in a certain proportion, putting them in gauze belt, putting hot new bricks on gauze belt, and ironing the affected area or related acupoints can cure arthritis and hyperosteogeny.
15, vinegar can cure parotitis-add a little lime with old vinegar and apply it evenly to the affected area to cure parotitis.
16, vinegar can treat dermatitis-apply aged vinegar to the affected area three times a day to treat neurodermatitis.
17, the effect of vinegar can reduce swelling-traumatic injury, redness (not broken, not hurting bones and muscles). Apply warm old vinegar to the affected area three times a day to reduce swelling and dissipate blood stasis.
However, jealousy should be cautious or taboo when the following situations exist:
1. People who are taking some western medicine should not be jealous. Because acetic acid can change the pH of local environment in human body, so that some drugs can't work, sulfonamides are easy to form crystals in the kidney and damage renal tubules in acidic environment, so it is not advisable to be jealous when taking such drugs. When taking alkaline drugs such as sodium bicarbonate, magnesium oxide and weishuping, you should not be jealous, because acetic acid can neutralize alkaline drugs and make them ineffective. When using antibiotics such as gentamicin, kanamycin, streptomycin and erythromycin. , should not be jealous, because these antibiotics in acidic environment will reduce the effect, affecting the curative effect.
2. It is not advisable to be jealous of taking Chinese medicine for relieving exterior symptoms and sweating. Because of the astringency of vinegar, Chinese medicine believes that acid can converge. When compound Yinqiao tablets and other traditional Chinese medicines are compatible with it, vinegar will promote the contraction of human sweat pores and destroy the effective components such as alkaloids in traditional Chinese medicines, thus interfering with the sweating and relieving exterior symptoms of traditional Chinese medicines.
3. Patients with gastric ulcer and hyperacidity should not use vinegar. Because vinegar will not only corrode gastrointestinal mucosa and aggravate the development of ulcer disease, but also contain rich organic acids, which can make digestive organs secrete a lot of digestive juice, thus increasing the digestion of gastric acid, avoiding the increase of gastric acid and aggravating ulcer.
4, allergic to vinegar and low blood pressure should be avoided. Because vinegar can cause allergies in the body, there are symptoms such as rash, itching, edema and asthma. In addition, some people who are not suitable for jealousy should also be careful to eat. Eating vinegar in patients with low blood pressure will lead to lower blood pressure and adverse reactions such as headache, dizziness and general weakness.
5, the elderly should avoid jealousy during fracture treatment and rehabilitation, vinegar can soften bones and decalcify, destroy the dynamic balance of calcium in the human body, will promote and aggravate osteoporosis, make the injured limbs ache, and the fracture will not heal.