Nutritional and therapeutic value of pepper

Nov 12
08:49

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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About 100 years from 20th century, a lot of medicine, pharmacy, nutrition, botany scientists carried out all aspects of the study on pepper found that, chili is a spicy substance, there is a huge nutrition, health care and therapeutic value.

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Chili ingredients analysis study found that peppers are rich in biochemical substances have a high nutritional value. Japanese medical experts believe that the chili is not only indispensable condiment in cooking,Nutritional and therapeutic value of pepper Articles it is still a high nutritional value of vegetables. Chinese medicine, nutrition experts believe pepper not only has a unique taste, its nutritional value is very high, eating chili is good for your health. Therefore, in the daily diet, add appropriate pepper have a great benefit to the health of the body. Fresh chili contained substances such as vitamin C is very unstable, storage for a long time or cooked are likely to loss, eating raw chili can maximize prevent its nutritional value.

Pepper is not only a kind of vegetables and spices, it is also a very rare health food can be used as pharmaceutical raw materials. Especially the vitamin C content is ranking the highest in the vegetables, with very high food and medicinal value. In Europe, the peppers were known as the “red herbs”, the research about chili is endless. Some researches found: chili can prevent and treat breast cancer; capsaicin can induce prostate cancer cells "commit suicide"; pepper can relieve the symptoms of a cold; pepper can also prevent arteriosclerosis; eat chili is helpful to your sleeping. The scientists proved by experiments, capsaicin can significantly lower blood sugar levels. Japanese studies have shown that eat pepper will increase the body's metabolism, thus speeding up calorie consumption, so that make the weight loss and achieve the weight loss goals.

Medical experts believe that regularly eating pepper can reduce blood fat, reduce thrombosis, cardiovascular system diseases prevention; eat chili can stimulate the oral mucosa, causing gastric peristalsis, promote saliva secretion, increase appetite, promote digestion; usually amount to eat chili, can promote blood circulation, so that facial hair red, slightly sweaty body, and help to resist the cold and get rid of the dampness, thereby reducing the incidence of colds, rheumatism and other diseases. A medical study found that peppers are rich in vitamin C, have the antioxidant effect, can enhance the body resistance, eat pepper can prevent cancer and other chronic diseases, such as gallstones, can delay aging.

Chinese medicine believes that, the chili warm in the cold, can increase appetite, dehumidification clear the blood, disease-resistant, refreshing effect. For example: with a little pepper decoction taken orally, can cure the poor appetite, abdominal distension, abdominal pain caused by cold; drink with chili and ginger soup can cure a cold. In China, often made of chili pepper tincture, treatment of gastrointestinal food plot; made chili ointment, treatment of frostbite and rheumatic pain; made chili oil, treatment of dental caries; pepper with wine can help hair regrowth, cure baldness and so on. While in other countries, capsaicin manufacturer extract capsaicin from the pepper, vitamin C and other substances made of different drugs commonly used in anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-cancer, weight loss, etc.

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