Bitter ground vegetables are wild vegetables containing the active ingredient saponin of ginseng. Tay Ninh people go there to pick them and sell them like hotcakes.

Every year, from mid-November onwards, people in some localities of Tay Ninh province begin to plant sugarcane and cassava.

In the rice, cassava, and sugarcane fields in Chau Thanh district (Tay Ninh province), children can also recognize and pick bitter ground vegetables. Bitter ground vegetables are a popular wild vegetable because they are good for health. People often cook bitter ground vegetables soup with freshwater fish, or eat snakehead fish porridge with bitter ground vegetables...

At this time, besides farmers busy weeding sugarcane and cassava plants, the harvest season of bitter ground vegetables has also begun.

Wild bitter melon grows in sugarcane and cassava fields. After harvest, the rice fields are dried and cracked by the sun, but when the weather turns cold, bitter melon grows abundantly.

The time when the ground is cracked and the weather is cold is also the time when many people take advantage of harvesting to earn extra income from this wild vegetable, which is clean.

At the field of Binh Luong hamlet, Dong Khoi commune, Chau Thanh district (Tay Ninh province), Ms. Tran Thi Kim Loan and her daughter were engrossed in picking bitter vegetables growing among the harvested rice.

The people of Chau Thanh district pick bitter ground vegetables from rice fields, sugarcane fields, and cassava fields in some localities in Tay Ninh province. According to nutrition scientists , bitter ground vegetables contain Saponin - the main chemical component of ginseng...

Ms. Loan said that from November onwards, when the weather gets cold, it is time for bitter vegetables to grow. At this time, many people start looking for wild vegetables growing in the fields and on the rice fields to harvest them.

Currently, bitter ground vegetables are one of the wild vegetables that are loved by many people, so the selling price is quite high, from 40,000 VND - 50,000 VND/kg.

Ms. Loan happily said that on the weekend, her daughter came along to help her pick, so together, the two of them picked nearly 10 kg of bitter vegetables. Selling these delicious and nutritious wild vegetables, she and her daughter earned about 500,000 VND/day.

According to Ms. Loan, there were days when the bitter vegetables were picked and she had not yet had time to wash them to remove dirt and sand when someone came to the field to buy them.

Bitter ground vegetables are wild vegetables, natural vegetables, very suitable for cooking soup with many types of freshwater fish, or snakehead fish porridge, eaten with bitter vegetables is very delicious and nutritious.

As the name suggests, bitter ground vegetables are difficult to eat for those who are not used to them, but once you "catch" them, you will have to find and buy them to eat.

Source: https://danviet.vn/rau-dang-dat-la-rau-dai-co-hoat-chat-saponin-cua-nhan-sam-dan-tay-ninh-di-hai-ban-dat-nhu-tom-tuoi-20241004092753615.htm