Hai Di Ye Dried Slices (Borassus flabellifer) — Natural-Color Sea Coconut Soup Ingredient, 500g

Hai Di Ye Dried Slices (海底椰干片), botanically associated with Borassus flabellifer and commonly known as Sea Coconut, are the dried fruit slices of a beloved traditional soup ingredient in Chinese food therapy. Known in Cantonese and Lingnan home cooking as Hǎi Dǐ Yē (海底椰), this ingredient has been prized for generations as a gentle, lung-moistening, and throat-soothing food herb used in slow-simmered soups. Its nature is sweet, neutral, and mildly cooling, making it a mild yet nourishing addition to everyday broths and seasonal tonic soups.

Key Selling Points

• Traditional soup ingredient for lung-moistening food therapy
• Natural-color dried Sea Coconut slices
• 500g bulk pack for home soup making
• Dried and sliced from new-crop fruit
• Gentle, sweet, and mildly cooling nature

Quality & Sensory

Each batch is carefully dried to preserve its natural pale-yellow to ivory color, firm yet slightly translucent texture, and mild, faintly sweet aroma. When simmered in soup, the slices soften gradually and release a gentle, subtly sweet flavor that adds body and a silky mouthfeel to broths without overpowering other ingredients.

Technical Specifications

Usage Scenarios

• Cantonese-style slow-simmered soup
• Herbal tea blends
• Seasonal lung-moistening tonic soup
• Congee and grain porridge
• Soup-pack ingredient

Traditional Uses

In folk herbal practice, Hai Di Ye is decocted into soups and sweet broths to support daily nourishment during dry seasons. It is a common ingredient in Cantonese soup packs, where it pairs with ingredients like apricot kernel, lily bulb, and snow pear. As a tea, it is brewed alone or blended with chrysanthemum and honey for a light, mildly sweet infusion.

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