Not poisonous.

Coffee okra is rich in nutrients, and the young fruit contains a large amount of sticky and slippery juice with a special flavor. Its juice is mixed with pectin, cow's milk polysaccharide and ala-polysaccharide. Its pectin is soluble fiber, in the new concept of modern health care is extremely important. Where regular consumption of it has a healthy stomach and intestines, nourishing the efficacy of yin and yang.

It is determined that each hundred grams of young fruit containing protein 2.5 grams, 0.1 grams of fat, sugar 2.7 grams, cellulose A660 international units. Vitamin B1, 0.2 mg, vitamin B20.06 mg, vitamin 44 mg, calcium 81 mg, phosphorus 63 mg, iron 0.8 mg, is an ideal high-grade green nutritional health care vegetables of the new century.

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Okra is rich in vitamins and minerals, every 100 grams of okra's young fruits, contains about 4 mg of vitamin C, 1.03 mg of vitamin E, and 310 micrograms of carotene. Okra is rich in trace elements such as zinc and selenium, which are helpful in enhancing the body's ability to prevent and fight cancer. Secondly, there is a sticky liquid substance in the young fruits of okra, and this mucus contains polysaccharides such as pectin and mucopolysaccharides.

Mucopolysaccharides have the effect of enhancing body resistance, maintaining the smooth effect of joint membrane and plasma membrane in the joint cavity of the human body, cutting down the accumulation of lipids in the arterial wall, avoiding the atrophy of connective tissues in the liver and kidneys.

Lastly, okra high water content, fat is very little, every 100 grams of okra young fruit contains only 0.1 grams of fat, very suitable for women who want to lose weight and slimming, and it is rich in vitamin C and dietary fiber, but also make the skin whitening, tender.

Okra can be cold, stir-fried, fried, stewed food, do salad, soup dishes, etc., need to pay attention to is that the okra in cold and fried food must be blanched in boiling water before blanching three or five minutes to remove astringency.

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