Vegetables with the highest selenium content should be the beetroot 8.43 micrograms / 100 grams, followed by: cabbage, alfalfa, cauliflower, carrots and so on. If you eat half a kilogram of beetroot every day, you can consume 20 micrograms of selenium, which is still a considerable number, but unfortunately not every vegetable has the same amount.

Selenium is the "longevity element", "the fire of life", the guardian of human health, and in recent years a variety of selenium-enriched products are also emerging. So how should we scientifically supplement it? Nutritional experts generally believe that the most ideal way should have the following three elements: good bioavailability, relatively high safety and economy.

What are the 3 ways to take a selenium supplement?

1, selenium-enriched plants and animal foods:

Plants: In addition to the vegetables we mentioned earlier, there are wheat germ flour, barley, millets (with skin), buckwheat flour, soybeans, black beans, kidney beans, almonds, pumpkin seeds, watermelon seeds and so on.

Among the animal food: oysters 86.64, arkshell 86.3, scallop 59.97, mussels 57.77, fresh shellfish 57.35, shrimp 56.41, small yellow croaker 55.2, razor clams 55.14, clams 54.31, horse mackerel 51.81, sardines 48.95, yellow croaker 42.57, octopus 41.86, shrimp 39.7, lobster 39.7.

Cuttlefish 37.52, halibut 36.97, scallop (36.57), loach 35.3, eel 34.56, shrimp 33.72, river eel 33.66, sea bass 33.06, and all of the above are measured in units of micrograms per 100 grams.

2, drugs or dietary supplements: these products are usually added organic selenium or inorganic selenium, most of them also contain vitamins and minerals, and can be supplemented when necessary.

3, selenium-enriched microorganisms, such as: selenium-enriched yeast and selenium-enriched lactic acid bacteria.

Selenium-rich vegetables are:

1, garlic:

Garlic is very rich in nutrients: and also contains thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, allicin, citrulline, as well as selenium and germanium and other related trace elements.

Contains volatile oil about 0.2% or so, the main component of the oil is allicin, with bactericidal effect, but also garlic contained in the allicin hydrolyzed by the action of garlic enzyme. And also contains a variety of allyl, propyl and methyl sulfide compounds.

2, asparagus: asparagus selenium content is higher than the general vegetables, and selenium-rich mushrooms are very close, and can even be comparable with the selenium content of marine fish and shrimp.

3, peas:

Peas are actually a nutritious food, especially copper, chromium and other trace elements more, copper is conducive to hematopoietic as well as bone and brain development; chromium is conducive to sugar and fat metabolism, can maintain the normal function of the body's insulin.

4, spinach: spinach has a "nutritional model student", it is rich in carotenoids, vitamin C, vitamin K, minerals (calcium, iron, etc.), coenzyme Q10 and other nutrients.

5, pumpkin: and can participate in our body within the synthesis of vitamin B12, but also my Emei you human body islet cells necessary trace elements. Vitamin C contained in pumpkin can prevent nitrate in the digestive tract into carcinogenic nitrite.

Selenium deficiency will certainly have many adverse effects on our bodies, but additional supplementation of the adverse evidence is actually being discovered, so we have to be careful, or that sentence: can be supplemented through food, try not to eat additional purification.