Tulip flowers

Spring asparagus and Irish goat brynza with battered tulip flowers, or Emperor tulip flowers with a salad of pea shoots. . . These are not fantasies at all, but real dishes that you can offer in elite restaurants in many countries.

Alternatively, you can sample charcoal fish served with a warm salad of tulip flowers or the still green buds of this plant in a sauce that resemble the youngest sprouts of Brussels sprouts in their taste.

For an extraordinary dessert - lemon pie with sweet tulip petals and cream. The white tulip flowers in this exquisite dish are difficult to distinguish by taste from sugar, but they look very mesmerizing, like miniature boats.

Today, tulip menus around the world are popular, partly due to the fact that only naturally grown tulips are suitable for cooking, and not those that can be purchased in flower shops or from merchants.

Before you make anything from tulip flowers, you first need to taste the petals to make sure that the tulip belongs to tasty varieties in its properties. By the way, the taste of tulip flowers can depend not only on the variety - the soil on which the plant grew plays an important role.

Tulip species

According to the International Register of Tulip Species, which was adopted in 1981 in Holland, the modern Unified Tulip Classification System is usually divided into four groups (based on the timing of their flowering), which include fifteen classes:



1 group - early-flowering,

Group 2 - medium-flowering,

3 groups - late-flowering,

Group 4 - tulip species, as well as their hybrids.

Tulip composition

It should be noted that due to the lack of certain information regarding the composition of tulips, it is difficult to say which active compounds and valuable substances are characteristic of this plant.

Tulip benefits

The benefits of tulip (in particular, some individual species of this plant) are due to its digitalis-like, antitoxic and tonic actions. In dermatology (mainly in Chinese medicine), edible tulip is used orally in the presence of purulent skin diseases and seborrheic dermatitis in children, while externally it is recommended for exudative dermatoses.

In addition, Chinese healers claim the benefits of an edible tulip for tumors, pulmonary tuberculosis, and as a enveloping agent for diarrhea and poisoning. Moreover, this plant is popular not only in China, but also in Central Asia.