The verdant and refreshing celery is a common green vegetable on people's table, as a kind of health care vegetable with good medicinal value, its antihypertensive effect is also known to people. Celery is a kind of nutritious vegetable with certain health effect and medicinal value. It is determined that 100 grams of celery contains 2.2 grams of protein, 8.5 milligrams of calcium, 61 milligrams of phosphorus, and 8.5 milligrams of iron, of which the protein content is 1 times higher than that of general fruits and vegetables, and the iron content is about 20 times higher than that of tomato, and the celery is also rich in carotene and many kinds of vitamins, which are very beneficial to human health. Celery leaf stems contain celery glycosides, fosetyl glycoside lactones and volatile oils, with hypotensive, diuretic, spleen, appetite-enhancing effects, but also as hypertension, arteriosclerosis, neurasthenia, menstrual disorders and gout dietary therapy.

It is worth mentioning that many families eat celery only eat stems do not eat leaves, which is extremely unscientific. Because celery leaves in the nutrient content is much higher than celery stems, celery stems and leaves for 13 nutrient testing, found that celery leaves in 10 indicators over the stem. Among them, the carotene content in the leaves is 8 times that of the stems, the content of vitamin C is 3 times that of the stems, vitamin B1 is 1 times that of the stems, the protein is 1 times that of the stems, and the calcium exceeds the stems by 2 times. It can be seen that the nutritional value of celery leaves can not be ignored indeed.

But it is reported that some foreign doctors after experiments found that men eat more celery will inhibit the production of testosterone, which has a spermicidal effect, will reduce the number of spermatozoa. Good health, fertility of young men consume celery for many days, the sperm count will be significantly reduced even to the extent that it is difficult to conceive, this situation will return to normal a few months after stopping vegetables.

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