Kelp is not seafood.
Kelp, one of the seaweed plants, is a large marine brown algae plant that grows in low-temperature seawater. It is a plant of the family of macroalgae and is named for its growth in seawater, which is pliable and band-like. Kelp is mainly natural growth, there are also artificial breeding, mostly dried products marketed in the city, the quality of brown color, short body, fine and fat quality is good. Kelp has "longevity vegetables", "sea vegetables", "iodine champion" reputation.
Kelp is a brown algae, algae body brown, generally 2 to 4 meters long, the longest up to 7 meters. It can be divided into three parts: the fixer, the stalk and the blade. Fixation fork-shaped branch, used to attach to the seabed rocks. The stalk is short and thick, cylindrical. The leaf blade is narrow and long, band-shaped. Growing in the sea in the lower water temperature, distributed in the northern coast of China and North Korea, Japan and the Soviet Union along the rocks in the Pacific region. China's northern and southeastern coast has a large number of breeding. Kelp is rich in nutrients, contains more iodine, calcium, and has the effect of treating goiter. Kelp can be eaten cold, you can also do hot fried dishes.
Kelp is also known as kombu, river cabbage, spandex, sea kombu, sea horse rushes, kelp greens, seaweed.
Kelp has a certain medicinal value, because kelp contains a lot of iodine, iodine is the main substance synthesized by the thyroid gland, if the human body lacks iodine, will suffer from "thick neck disease", that is, hypothyroidism, so, kelp is the best food for hypothyroidism.
In all foods, kelp has the highest iodine content, iodine is an essential trace element in the human body, is an important raw material for the synthesis of thyroxine, people with long-term iodine deficiency will appear endemic goiter, often eat kelp, can effectively prevent goiter. Pregnant women who do not consume enough iodine will affect the growth and development of the fetus, resulting in poor fetal development after birth, low intelligence,, so, pregnant women should also eat some seaweed. Eating kelp often also helps prevent the occurrence of less whiteheads.
Kelp also contains a large number of mannitol, and mannitol has a diuretic effect, can prevent and control renal failure, senile edema, drug poisoning. Mannitol and iodine, potassium, niacin and other synergistic effect on the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis, hypertension, chronic bronchitis, chronic hepatitis, anemia, edema and other diseases, have a better effect.
The high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids in kelp have a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of heart disease, diabetes and hypertension.
The Chinese medicine believes that the kelp is salty and cold in nature, has the effect of softening, dispersing knots, anti-inflammatory, asthma, passes the water, expelling fat and lowering blood pressure, etc., and has a good effect on the prevention and treatment of silicosis.
The kelp gelatin can promote the body's radioactive substances with the stool out of the body, thus reducing the accumulation of radioactive substances in the body, but also reduce the incidence of radioactive diseases.
Regular consumption of kelp can make hair moisturized and black.
Mixing some kelp in too much greasy food can reduce the accumulation of fat in the body and prevent hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and hypertension.
The average person can consume kelp.
1. suitable for iodine deficiency, goiter, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, arteriosclerosis, osteoporosis, malnutrition anemia, and thinning hair can be eaten more;
2. Insufficient energy, iodine-deficient people, insufficient qi and blood, and cirrhosis of the liver and ascites and neurasthenia is particularly suitable for people to eat;
3.? People with cold spleen and stomach people people eat with caution, spleen and stomach cold people, hyperthyroidism in iodine overabundance type of patients to avoid eating;
4. Pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers should not be overconsumption of kelp.
Because of some of the characteristics of kelp itself, so that there are two types of people are not suitable for large amounts of kelp.
1, a class of pregnant women, on the one hand, is that kelp has the effect of catalyzing birth, on the other hand, kelp iodine content is very high, it is too much to eat can affect the development of the fetus's thyroid, so pregnant women to eat with some caution.
2, the second is the kelp itself according to Chinese medicine is cold, so the spleen and stomach cold people, in eating kelp, do not eat too much at once, or with some of the cold substances with, otherwise it will cause the stomach and stomach uncomfortable.
One, the nutritional value of kelp
Kelp is very high in iodine, is the body's synthesis of the main raw material of thyroxine, eating can make the hair moist and black.
Kelp has a certain medicinal value, because kelp contains a lot of iodine, iodine is the main substance synthesized by the thyroid gland, if the human body lacks iodine, will suffer from "thick neck disease", that is, hypothyroidism, so, kelp is the best food for hypothyroidism. Kelp also contains a large number of mannitol, and mannitol has a diuretic effect, can prevent and treat renal failure, senile edema, drug poisoning. Mannitol and iodine, potassium, niacin and other synergistic effect on the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic bronchitis, chronic hepatitis, anemia, edema and other diseases, have a better effect. Kelp in the high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acids, on heart disease, diabetes, hypertension has a certain role in the prevention and treatment. Chinese medicine believes that kelp is salty and cold in nature, has the effect of softening, dispersing knots, anti-inflammatory, asthma, pass water, dispel fat and lower blood pressure, etc., and has a better effect on the prevention and treatment of silicosis.
The kelp gelatin can promote the body's radioactive substances with the stool out of the body, thus reducing the accumulation of radioactive substances in the body, but also reduce the incidence of radioactive diseases.
Second, the edible effect of kelp
The Chinese medicine will be called kelp "kombu", its flavor is salty, cold; into the liver, stomach, kidneys, lungs.
It can soften and dissolve phlegm, dispel dampness and stop itching, and clear heat and water. It is used for goiter, choking, hernia, testicular swelling and pain, under the belt, edema, foot fungus and so on.
Applied to cool and relieve summer heat: kelp, winter melon, green beans, each in appropriate amount, boiled in soup.
Three, how to identify the good and bad kelp?
Kombu Algae body olive-brown, dry dark brown. Mature leathery band, generally 2-6m long, 20-50cm wide, there are two parallel longitudinal shallow grooves in the center of the blade, two grooves in the middle of the thicker part of the "middle band", thickness of about 2-5mm, both sides of the edge of the thinning, and there is a wavy crease, the base of the blade cuneate, the thicker into the stage of the flattened round, there is a terete or The base of the leaf blade is cuneate, and the thicker stages are oblate, with a short, cylindrical or oblate stalk, 5-15cm long, and both the stalk and the inner part of the leaf blade consist of a medulla, a cortex, and an epidermis. There is a mucus cavity in the outer cortex, and there are secretory cells in the cavity, which can secrete mucus to the surface of the leaf body, constituting a gelatinous layer, making the algal body sticky and slippery and playing a protective role. The medulla is composed of many algal filaments, and one end of the algal filament cells is expanded in the shape of a trumpet tube. The surface of the leaf is smooth in the juvenile stage of the algal body, and the leaf appears concave and convex in the small kelp stage. The lower part of the leaf blade of the annual alga can usually see the growth of sporocarp clusters, in the form of nearly round patches; the two-year old alga grows sporocarp clusters on almost all of the leaf blades. The fixation apparatus is composed of forked and branched pseudopodia. The spores mature in the fall.
Black Kombu The alga is dark brown to dark brown, leathery, 30-100 cm or more in height. Leaf body is flat and broad, slightly thick in the middle, from its two sides one to two times pinnately parted, the segments are long ligulate or longer, slightly wrinkled, the edge is generally coarsely serrate. Petiole stem-like, terete or slightly flat, 4-12cm long, 3-8mm in diameter, the cortical cells of the alga have mucous cavities arranged in a ring, 1-2 layers. The medulla consists of trumpet tube filaments with indefinite orientation. Swarms of zoospores are formed on the central part of the mature thallus and on the surface of the lateral lobes. The solidus consists of bifurcately branched pseudopodia. Sporangia are formed in early summer and spores mature in fall.
Nepidium alga yellow-brown, soft leathery, 1-2m high, 50-100cm wide, the central part of the flattened leaf body has obvious elevated center rib, the two sides of the thinning and soft, forming a majority of pinnate lobes, or is unevenly sized notch, but no serration. The leaf surface is scattered with many small black spots, which are the openings of mucous cells to the epidermis. At maturity, the lower petiole is flanked on both sides by a fungus-like overlapping folded sporophyte, viscid-smooth and fleshy, densely covered with sporangia. The lower end of the petiole is a fixation apparatus composed of forked branched pseudopodia.