Amaranth is also known as wild amaranth, red amaranth, wild goose red. It was originally a kind of wild vegetables, only in recent years on the table. Some regions call amaranth "longevity vegetables". Amaranth is an annual herb, sweet and fragrant in the mouth, the following is my carefully organized amaranth efficacy and role, only for reference, welcome to read.
1. Clearing heat and detoxification
Amaranth is sweet and cool, long for clearing heat and dampness, clearing the liver and detoxification, cooling the blood and dispersing blood stasis, for the dampness and heat caused by the dysentery of the red eye and liver fire caused by the inflammation of the eye, eye pain, sore throat red and swollen and unfavorable, have a certain adjuvant role in the treatment.
2. Promote growth and development
Amaranth protein content is high, and amaranth leaves contain a high concentration of lysine, which can supplement the defects of the amino acid composition of grains, but also contains calcium, zinc and other nutrients that are easy to be absorbed by renti. Zinc, calcium and lysine have a synergistic effect on the growth of teeth and bones, and can maintain normal heart activity and prevent muscle spasms (cramps). Therefore, amaranth has a good effect on promoting the growth and development of infants and adolescents, and also has a good effect in the prevention and treatment of children's stunted growth, rickets and osteoporosis in old age, etc., and has a good effect on the fracture of . Healing has a certain therapeutic value.
3. The ancient Chinese experience of amaranth's eye-opening effect is thus strongly supported.
4. Weight loss and slimming, facilitating the two stools
Amaranth is also the protagonist of the weight loss table, eating can lose weight and slimming, promote detoxification, prevent constipation.
5. Blood clotting and blood replenishment
Amaranth is rich in protein, iron, calcium and vitamin K, which can promote blood clotting, increase the content of hemoglobin and improve the oxygen-carrying capacity, and promote hematopoietic and other functions, it is anaemia and blood loss, pregnant women and mothers in labor, bone fracture, and those who have received the operation of the dietary therapy of the auxiliary good vegetables. Folk view of amaranth as a blood good vegetables, have "blood dish" of the name.
6. Prevention and treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular health
Amaranth is rich in magnesium. Researchers believe that diabetes, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, cancer and other patients, the body of magnesium is too much discharge or depletion, eating amaranth can replenish the missing magnesium. Supplementation of magnesium in diabetic patients can improve their glucose tolerance and reduce insulin dosage, which is beneficial to blood sugar control. Magnesium is also good for maintaining the health of coronary arteries and heart function.
In addition, studies have found that the protein extracted from amaranth has a cholesterol-lowering effect, and that seed amaranth has an anti-hypertensive effect (it is thought that the anti-hypertensive effect is mainly through the tetrapeptide extracted from seed amaranth has an inhibitory effect on the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE)), which is very suitable for patients with cardiovascular disease.
7. Prevention and treatment of neurasthenia and insomnia
Amaranth contains iron that is easily absorbed and utilized by the renti, in addition to the iron in the renti to participate in the synthesis of hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochromes, and cytochrome oxidase, and with the activity of acetyl-coenzyme A, succinate dehydrogenase, cytochrome reductase. Iron metabolism is also closely related to the spleen deficiency syndrome in Chinese medicine.
According to Chinese medicine, liver and blood deficiency, heart and spleen deficiency is easy to neurasthenia, insomnia and other diseases, and amaranth main treatment of neurasthenia and insomnia may be rich in iron content with them.
8. Prevention and treatment of loss of appetite, anorexia and other diseases
Amaranth is rich in zinc. Zinc is one of the indispensable elements to maintain the growth and development of the body, to maintain the normal taste function of renti and appetite, and to promote normal development. After the lack of zinc, the synthesis of gustatory elements on the taste buds of human tongue is difficult, the sense of taste is slow, the acuity of distinguishing taste is reduced, and the appetite is reduced. Consumption of amaranth can achieve the purpose of the appropriate amount of zinc, so as to treat the loss of appetite, anorexia and other diseases.
9. Hepatoprotective effect
Amaranth can play a hepatoprotective effect, the study concluded that the mechanism of hepatoprotective effect of amaranth may be related to carotenoids and phenolic substances.
10. Improve immunity, anti-cancer
Amaranth in the amino acids, fatty acids and trace elements and other components and content is a rare high-quality functional food resources, can provide rich nutrients for renti, is conducive to strengthening the body, improve the body's immunity, known as the "longevity vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable", "life vegetable". The "Longevity Vegetable" is known as.
Studies have shown that amaranth extract has inhibited the proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma cells (HepG2) and breast cancer cells (MCF-7), and has inhibited the proliferation of gastric cancer cells (AGS), cancer cells of the central nervous system (SF-268), colon cancer cells (HCT-116), lung cancer cells (NCI-H460), and cancer cells such as MCF-7.
Expand: Nutritional Value of Amaranth
Overall, amaranth is more nutritious than spinach. Red amaranth contains more than spinach more than 1 times the iron. Every 100 grams of vitamin C can satisfy the body's need for vitamin C for a day. It is worth noting that the calcium and iron content of amaranth is the highest among fresh vegetables. Amaranth also contains a high concentration of lysine, an amino acid that is important for human growth and development, especially for adolescents and children.
How to choose and buy amaranth
Amaranth product purchase Clay has green amaranth, red amaranth and colored amaranth, but the two-color amaranth has a high content of iron and a large ratio between the button and copper, which is conducive to the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease and blood replenishment. You should choose fresh and tender plants or pick young heads, which have good crystal quality. When selecting, the general leaf blade thick, wrinkled taste old, leaf blade thin, flat eating mouth tender. Selection of hand holding amaranth, hand feel soft tender, hand feel hard old, May and June for the best eating period.
Amaranth food method
Amaranth is mainly eaten fresh, can also be used for soup, porridge, can also be used as ingredients for coleslaw. Wild amaranth for the anti-branching Wu, wrinkled fruit foraging, concave head expanse of a variety of expanse of plants such as young stems and leaves, collection of young stems and leaves into the pot of boiling water after the eulogizing, fish out of the water to wash, can be made into a variety of dishes. Amaranth its flavor fragrant sweet, high nutritional value. Folk have "Dragon Boat Festival amaranth race pig liver, June visit gold is not changed" proverbs. In the south for more, to young seedlings do vegetables for food, fat and tender is good. When frying the expanse of vegetables, there is often a lime flavor. To avoid it, you can first collapse the amaranth in the pot soft, cooked and removed. Then wash the pan, and then add vegetarian oil on the fire will continue to stir fry, add ingredients can be eaten, so you can avoid the odor of amaranth.
(a) shredded chicken mixed with amaranth
raw materials: amaranth 300 grams, cooked chicken breast 100 grams, cooked ham 50 grams.
Seasonings: 3 grams of salt, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 grams of monosodium glutamate, 5 grams of cooked chicken oil.
1. Select the old stems and yellow leaves of the foraged vegetables, wash and cut into long 5-centimeter segments, scalded with boiling water, fished out of the cold water cool, squeeze out the water; cooked chicken breast torn by hand into the silk; cooked ham cut into shreds.
2. Garlic cloves peeled and minced, put in a large bowl, plus forage section, cooked chicken wire, cooked ham wire, salt, monosodium glutamate and cooked chicken oil mixing companion evenly, plate can be.
(2) stir-fried amaranth practice
raw materials: purple amaranth 250 grams.
Seasonings: vegetable oil, garlic, salt.
Functions: Amaranth contains more potassium, magnesium, calcium and vitamin C, etc. The leaves also contain high concentrations of lysine, which is very helpful for human growth and development.
1. Wash the amaranth and cut it into pieces.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan, burn to eight or nine percent hot under the garlic, to be fried garlic, the amaranth into the hot frying pan, stir-frying constantly, and then add salt seasoning can be.