Sucking on ginger candies, I decided to try and crystallized ginger. In form, it absolutely does not match the photo from the site (ie it's not cubes, but large flat plates), abundantly covered with sugar. You can chew with tea, but I cut more often into thin strips and add them to different sauces (for example, honey + ginger + teriyaki for chicken wings). Even after an hour of stewing in the sauce does not lose its original sharpness. To add to the desserts, you can also twist the meat grinder. Ginger is soft, when stored in a tightly closed package it retains its properties for a long time. ### Translated from Sanskrit, ginger "Zingiber" translates as "horned root". The ginger root provides sputum excretion, cleanses the bronchi, relieves the inflammation of the respiratory system due to essential oils in the composition, helps to avoid the spread of respiratory viral infection, promotes the restoration of metabolic processes, stimulates blood circulation, immunomodulator. Ginger gives dishes a special taste, it makes food easily digestible for the body, eliminates indigestion and eructation, stimulates the production of gastric juice and normalizes gastric secretion. If you regularly eat ginger in food, a person has an appetite. Since long ago, ginger was famous for its aroma and taste. In Russia he was unusually popular. It was from ginger that the name "gingerbread" went, as the main component of the famous Tula gingerbread was ginger. But ginger was added not only in bakery products. On its basis, a mead was brewed, kvass was made, it was added to jam and sbitten. Ginger added to the dishes their own spicy taste, due to which it was always unusually popular. ### from the incomplete list of substances that are part of the root of ginger: magnesium, phosphorus, sodium, silicon, potassium, manganese, calcium, germanium, chromium, iron, aluminum nicotinic acid, caprylic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, vitamin C, Asparagine, choline, fats. It contains many amino acids, which must necessarily be present in the body. Ginger refers to aphrodisiacs, i.e. Helps to increase sexual desire.
