Large and small fennel are commonly used seasonings and must be used when cooking fish stew and making marinated food. Because they can remove the odor in the meat, so that it will add flavor, so the "anise." Anise is an aniseed material, scientific name is "star anise." The cumin seeds are seasonings, and their stem and leaf parts are also scented. They are often used as fillings for dumplings, dumplings, and other foods. They contain the main components are fennel oil, can stimulate the gastrointestinal nerve blood vessels, promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal motility, remove the accumulation of gas, so there is stomach, qi effect; sometimes gastrointestinal motility after the excitement It will reduce it, and it will help relieve paralysis and relieve pain.
The composition of the volatile oil contained in the fruit is very complex. The main component is trans-anethole (63.4%), followed by limonene (13.1%), fenchone (2.1%), and other love grasses. Brain (estragole 4.7%), γ-terpinene (γ-terpinene 2.7%), α-pinene (α-pinene 1.9%), myrcene (myrcene 0.7%), β-pinene (β-pinene 0.4 %), camphor (0.2% of camphor), 0.1% of camphene (camphene), methoxyphenyl acetone (0.1%) and trace amount of sabinene, α-phellandrene (α-phellandrene) ), p-cymene, 1,8-cineole, 4-terpineol, trans-anise alcohol acetate (trans-fencho-lactate), anisaldehyde, etc. The sixteen fatty acids identified in the fruit fat oil are: 10-octadecenoic acid (38.0%), arachic acid (31.4%), palmitic acid (21.2%), and behenic acid ( Behenic acid 2.8%), myristic acid 2.2%, stearic acid 2,2%, lauric acid 0.2%, pentadecanoic acid 0.2%, twenty-one Carbonic acid (henicosanoic acid 0.2%) etc. The fruit also contains stigmasterol, umbelliferone, a wax mixture of palmitic acid, arachidic acid, behenic acid and higher alcohols greater than octadecanol, β-sitosierol (β-sitosierol) ), Xanthotoxin, α-amyrin, imperatorin, bergapten and marmesin.
The main components of fennel are protein, fat, dietary fiber, anethole, fenchone, and anisaldehyde. Its aroma mainly comes from aroma substances such as anethole and anisaldehyde. It is a multi-purpose plant that combines medicine, seasoning, food, and makeup. Young shoots, leaves for vegetables, stuffing, fennel fruit containing fennel oil 2.8%, anethole 50 to 60%, a-fenone ketone 18 to 20%, methyl pepper 10% and alpha-pinene dipentene Anisaldehyde, terpenes and so on. The endosperm contains approximately 15% of fatty oil, and approximately 85% of proteins, starch sugars, and mucilage. It can be used as a spice. It is commonly used for pasta, meat, seafood and biscuits. Chinese medicine is used as a medicine, which is warm, spicy, liver, kidney, spleen, and stomach. Functional warm liver and kidney, warm stomach gas, Sanjiejie, cold and pain, qi and stomach. Used for cold abdominal pain, testicles fall, women dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, abdominal distention pain, eat less vomiting and diarrhea embolism.