Nowadays, many Koreans enjoy the chewy rice cake on ordinary days as well as Chuseuk.
Depending on region, there are a variety of songpyeon in shape and ingredients.
Situated in Yeonggwang of Korea, Mosiall Farming Union Corporation is a professional food producer specializing in half-moon-shaped rice cake using ramie leaf, the specialty of Yeonggwang of Korea and highquality home-grown rice powder.
The perennial herb belongs to the nettle and dicotyledon plant groups. The herb has long been used for the material of summer clothing rather than food in many parts of regions in Korea. However, in Yeonggwang, the ramie leaves have long been used for making half-moon rice cake, and people used to share the rice cake with neighbors in order to comfort their rice growing labors and convey friendliness in the community.
The fresh ramie leaves that are harvested from May to October, are cleaned and ground together with rice, made into dough. And then, the fillings are put into lumps of the dough and each cake is shaped into a half moon. The ramie half-moon rice cake is very chewy with unique flavor of ramie leaves.
The rice cake is sufficient for one meal in itself. It will be also a great gift item for men and women of all ages.
Captivating the taste buds of the Korean foodies, the Mosiall’s ramie leaf rice cake is absolutely a wellbeing food that is totally free from coloring preservative and other chemical additives. Especially, the ramie leaves are rich in such nutrients as dietary fiber, calcium and amino acid.
The leaves of the ramie plant have various nutrients beneficial for our bodies. Most of all, there is plenty of dietary fiber in the ramie leaves. The ramie leaves contain 46% ~ 53% of dietary fiber when they are completely dried. As the dietary fiber is not absorbed in the small intestines, it lowers the glycemic index.
The plants also have a plenty of calcium and no harmful heavy metals. The ramie laves are high in mineral content, including calcium, magnesium and potassium and are an akalic food. The content of calcium in the ramie leaves is kept at 3% after they are dried to 3.6% of water.
The ramie leaves have a total antioxidative proportion of 25.7mg/g, and the total content of the phenol compounds is 2-4 times higher than that of mugwort.
The ramie leaves are shown to contain the high level of protein content of 38.0 – 41.4%, including alutamic acid, aspartic acid and leucine, the essential amino acid.
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