The thermos cup soaked wolfberry, is a simple and crude way to keep fit after the people to the middle age have no choice but to pursue. It seems to have a cup of Chinese wolfberry water, you can raise the face of anti-aging.
Recently, a netizen in the background to consult, he likes to eat goji berries as dried fruit, but some people say that goji berries contain high sugar, so easy to get diabetes. There are also some common questions and answers about goji berries, which I have organized.
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Q netizen "love and grace" often eat goji berries as a dried fruit point, some people say that goji berries contain high sugar, easy to get diabetes, it is not desirable to eat, that in the end is to eat or not eat it?
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Eat goji berries in moderation, not only will not be high blood sugar, but also can help lower blood sugar.
Lycium barbarum has a sweet taste, and Chinese medicine describes the wolfberry as a kind of sweet and flat in nature, and has the ability to tonify the liver and kidneys, brighten the eyes and moisten the lungs and nourish the yin yin medicine.
Recent scientific studies have shown that goji berries can refine lycium barbarum polysaccharides, which have a long-lasting hypoglycemic effect on diabetes, and can help to elevate serum insulin levels and help to repair damaged pancreatic islet cells, thus allowing for increased glucose tolerance.
Although the Chinese wolfberry has a hypoglycemic effect, but because of the Chinese wolfberry inside the sugar contained in the particularly high, in the time of taking a small handful at a time is good, do not because you think the Chinese wolfberry has a hypoglycemic effect and a large number of one-time take, but easy to lead to the rise in blood sugar.
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Q known as the "soft gold" black wolfberry than red wolfberry higher nutrition?
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Each has its own advantages.
Black goji berries are rich in anthocyanins, which is the reason why goji berries have different colors. In this regard, red goji berries can not be compared.
But while anthocyanins are powerful antioxidants that help slow down the aging process, they are by no means rare. Anthocyanins are found in many of the foods we consume on a daily basis, such as grapes, cherries, beet, eggplant, purple sweet potatoes, blueberries, blackberries, and many others.
Other nutritional value, the content of polysaccharides in goji berry, red goji berry is about 2 times as much as black goji berry, at the same time, red goji berry is rich in carotenoids; betaine content, black goji berry is 30% higher than red goji berry, at the same time, the black goji berry iron content is 4 times as much as red goji berry.
Overall, the two kinds of goji berries nutritional strength is the comprehensive strength of each of them, depending on their own needs of nutrition, more close to which one.
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Q People think that the Ningxia wolfberry is the most nutritious, is it true?
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Not necessarily.
Ningxia wolfberry is the only wolfberry included in the 2010 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, which is why it is known as the Taoist medicinal herb. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide and betaine are the main medicinal active ingredients of goji berries tested under the Pharmacopoeia. As a genuine medicinal goji berries, only Ningxia goji berries are called wolfberries, which seem to have a respectable status.
But modern test results show that the Ningxia wolfberry content of lycium polysaccharide and betaine there are regional differences, some areas are higher than Gansu, Xinjiang and Qinghai, and some areas are lower than Gansu, Xinjiang and Qinghai.
So do not use the origin to distinguish between the nutrition of wolfberry, oral intake, daily intake of a small handful per person, the difference is much more weak to negligible, or the taste is important.
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Q I heard that goji berries + hot water = loss of nutrients? Will it lose its brightening effect?
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No, it won't.
Goji berries in the role of eye-catching components are mainly polysaccharides and carotenoids, after heating the water soak, part of these nutrients will be dissolved in the water, and part of the fruit will remain in the fruit, and will not lose the effect of eye-catching.
Not only can soak in hot water, but also can be cooked and eaten or into the pill medicine, need to remind is that after drinking the water, it is recommended to eat the wolfberry, so that the complete harvest of wolfberry nutrition.
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Q Lycium barbarum has such a high nutritional value, so more is better?
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No, you can't.
Although goji berries are good, some people can not eat, eat more, but not good for the body. Experts suggest that it is best not to exceed 20 grams (roughly 20 grains) a day for one person. Excessive consumption of goji berries can make people on fire, nosebleeds, and even cause red eyes and discomfort.
There are also several categories of people should control the amount, or even do not eat:
high blood pressure people Try to eat as little as possible goji berries, because goji berries have the effect of dilating blood vessels. To avoid aggravating the condition, it is recommended to take it together with other fire-reducing herbs and flower teas.
People with weak spleen and stomach Try to avoid chewing directly, you may want to take it with water. Because goji berries contain a lot of trace elements, direct chewing will cause some components to burden the digestive organs.
People with inflammation of the body is not recommended to eat wolfberry. Chinese medicine preaches that the deficiency is not to be supplemented, there is inflammation of the body in the process of resistance to the outbreak, supplementation = add blockage, this time to eat goji berries will play a counterproductive role.
diarrhea eat a small amount, deficiency diarrhea patients in the consumption of goji berries, the symptoms of diarrhea will be aggravated, the impact on the body functions.
Do not buy "spiked" wolfberry, you have to know these
Admittedly, Chinese wolfberry tonic kidney gas nourishment, but in recent years, smoked sulfur, stained Chinese wolfberry exposure, buy spiked Chinese wolfberry, not only do not keep fit, but also hurt the kidneys, how to buy? Many people are hurt brain.
In fact, how to identify, just need to remember a simple mnemonic, that is, "a touch, two see, three smell, four taste, five bubble".
A touch:
You can grab a handful of goji berries in your hand, feel it with your palm, normal and high quality goji berries dryness will be better, touch a hard feeling, and each grain is separate from each other. Even if the humid environment will make the wolfberry soft, but not particularly soft.
And processed goji berries are a little sticky to the touch, and there will be color loss.
Two look:
Look at the color:
Normal goji berries to dark red mostly, and the color will not be very uniform, pay attention to the look of the color of the goji berries is very bright, usually dyed goji berries is very good looking bright red.
Look at the shape: if you are buying Ningxia wolfberries, the Pharmacopoeia records that the particles are not large, flat and round. In addition, the umbilicus of normal wolfberry is white, the wolfberry smoked with sulfur is yellow, and the dyed wolfberry is red.
Three Smell :
Normal Chinese wolfberry is tasteless, grab a handful of Chinese wolfberry in the hands of the hands or put into a plastic bag to seal for a while, if the nose can smell the irritating odor, the Chinese wolfberry is smoked with sulfur, when buying. Be careful.
Four taste:
Lycium barbarum a small amount of raw food is not toxic, will be a few grains of goji berries chewed in the mouth, Ningxia goji berries taste sweet, but there is a hint of a slight bitterness after eating, Qinghai goji berries than the Ningxia goji berries are sweeter. But by alum soaked goji berries chewing alum will have a bitter taste, by sulfur smoked goji berries taste sour, astringent, bitter taste.
five bubble:
Prepare a cup of warm water, put a few goji berries, observe the sinking situation, high quality goji berries are not easy to sink, floating rate is high, and the color of the water is yellowish or orange-red. And dyed goji berries once soaked, the water will turn red, at the same time, sulfur smoked goji berry water can still remain clear and transparent.
Although goji berries for health care class of food, but trigger taboos will still be harmful to the body.
Therefore, we need to be cognizant of our own physical condition and eat selectively. The key is that the best way to keep fit is to have balanced nutrition, reasonable exercise, a good mood, and don't stay up late!
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