Wild spinach, rau sang, a sweet specialty like MSG, good for blood, increases muscle mass, in Bac Kan sells more expensive than meat and fish

Going to the mountainous region of Bac Kan around March and April of the lunar calendar every year, you will encounter the season of wild spinach. The people living here are familiar with the harvest season of this wild vegetable - a specialty vegetable.

On this occasion, long bunches of wild spinach or square spinach leaves wrapped in banana leaves will be sold by ethnic people in many markets.

Wild spinach has long been a specialty wild vegetable, a clean vegetable, and a familiar dish of the people of Bac Kan.

Wild spinach (also known as rau sang) is not a small, bushy plant like home-grown spinach.

The wild spinach plant is a woody plant that grows naturally on rocky mountains. The spinach plant is taller than a person, with lush branches and leaves.

At the end of winter, the Malabar spinach plant sheds all its old leaves. In spring, around February, the plant begins to sprout its first young leaves.

Just like that, the wild spinach plant produces delicious leaves until March and April, when the shoots, leaves and flower clusters are harvested.

Wild spinach (Rau sang) belongs to the woody family, grows naturally on rocky mountains in many northern provinces of Vietnam, including Bac Kan province. Wild spinach contains a good amount of vegetable protein for health, so when cooking soup, there is no need to add MSG (monosodium glutamate).

This season, people in the highlands of Bac Kan carry bunches of wild spinach from the high mountains to bring home. The bundles of green, shiny, smooth vegetables are carefully preserved in banana-leaf-covered hedges in time for the market day starting early the next morning.

During the season of wild spinach, it is easy to find a bunch of fresh, green wild vegetables right in the heart of Bac Kan city.

These specialty vegetable traders transport this vegetable to the city from all districts in the province such as: Ngan Son, Ba Be, Bach Thong...

Wild spinach does not require elaborate preparation. For this specialty vegetable, just pick the young leaves, wash them, crush them, boil water, add the spinach leaves to cook soup and you will have a soup with a rich, natural sweetness.

Wild spinach (rau sang) in Bac Kan is considered a specialty vegetable. Rau sang is good for health, especially for pregnant women.

Wild spinach is not only a delicious dish but also very nutritious, good for health, especially for pregnant women.

According to Oriental medicine, wild spinach also has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, diuretic, increasing saliva secretion, enriching blood, stopping bleeding, laxative, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory...

Eating wild spinach also has a reproductive effect because the nutritional composition of this specialty vegetable contains a healthy amount of protein.

When people from Bac Kan go far away, they always remember this special dish of their hometown.

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