Nutritional value of garlic

Although some people like it and others don't, everyone has eaten garlic. For southerners, sometimes we just use garlic as a seasoning for cooking. There is a lot of garlic in the vegetable market, and the price is relatively cheap. Some people eat it every day. However, you may not know that garlic is not an ordinary food, but has a good health care function.

The role of garlic: In ancient books, there are records of garlic's health and therapeutic effects. For example, it is recorded in "Records of Famous Doctors" that garlic can "reduce qi, eliminate grains and melt meat". What do you mean? Reducing qi, that is to say, calming people's mood, people with symptoms of upset insomnia can use garlic to adjust; Here, "eliminating grains and meat" mainly refers to the digestive function of garlic, that is to say, for people with unhealthy intestines, unstable functions and dyspeptic diseases, eating more garlic is helpful to digest the grains and meat they eat.

Nutritional value of garlic: Garlic contains a lot of allicin, which is actually an important antiviral element. Whenever the seasons change, people's body immunity will have an unstable period, which is easy to catch a cold or suffer from heatstroke. When this happens, eating more garlic can improve the human body's ability to resist pathogenic bacteria, help kill related pathogenic bacteria, and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as colds.

Garlic contains selenium. Eating more can regulate and promote the synthesis of insulin. We know that abnormal insulin can cause many diseases. Diabetes, for example, has a lot to do with the decline of insulin. People with diabetes eat more garlic, which will be very helpful for the recovery of the body. Selenium is also a strong antioxidant, which can resist aging, cancer, cancer and AIDS.

Garlic is nutritious, rich in fat, water and protein. For people who are weak and malnourished, we should eat more garlic to recuperate. Moreover, garlic also has certain antioxidant function, which can delay aging if it is often eaten by middle-aged and elderly people.

Eating garlic regularly can prevent many diseases. What I want to say here is the protective effect of garlic on human blood vessels. Garlic contains allicin, which can regulate the cholesterol in serum, ensure the stability and proper amount of cholesterol, and thus prevent diseases such as thrombosis and hyperlipidemia.