Kelp can be eaten raw, but for the poor teeth of the elderly and gastrointestinal digestive function of friends is not recommended raw food, raw food kelp is very hard, the pursuit of the natural taste of the people can be steamed kelp after cold, so that the taste of the kelp is very pure and easy to be digested and absorbed.

Kelp is a kind of edible seaweed, kelp is rich in nutrients, with a lot of our human body needs elements and substances, so often eat kelp on our body is very helpful to prevent your body from iodine deficiency phenomenon, kelp is not only very rich in nutrients, but also ate up a lot of ways to eat up, can be used with other foods to make soup. Usually eaten seaweed can be cleaned with plastic wrap wrapped up in the refrigerator to go, so that will not destroy the nutrients of the seaweed.

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Kelp effect:

1, kelp taste salty, cold, into the liver, stomach, kidney three meridians, with the elimination of phlegm and water effect

Li Shizhen, "the Materia Medica Compendium," recorded that the kelp "treatment of water disease gall tumors, the function of the same seaweed." Modern research shows that kelp contains carotene, B vitamins and calcium, iron and other essential nutrients; kelp contains a variety of pharmacological effects of functional factors such as kelp starch (brown algae starch), alginate (fucoidan), kombucha polysaccharides, phycocyanin, fucoidan, kombucha acid and so on. With the deepening of scientific research, it has been found that kelp has a wide range of pharmacological activities.

2, prevention and treatment of iodine deficiency goiter

Iodine is the raw material for the synthesis of thyroxine, and iodine deficiency causes hyperplasia and enlargement of thyroid tissue. Kelp is rich in iodine, which helps prevent iodine deficiency goiter.

3, anti-tumor

Kombucha polysaccharide in kelp can kill tumor cells by activating macrophages and inhibiting the proliferation of tumor cells, as well as inhibit tumor growth by inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, and can also directly inhibit tumor growth.

4, anticoagulation

Fucoidan and fucoidan in kelp have anticoagulant effect.

5, antihypertensive

The antihypertensive effect of kelp may be related to the kombuchine and taurine it contains. Hypertensive patients can often eat kelp.

6, lipid

Kelp in the intestinal tract can bring out the fat in the food in the body, so it has a good effect on lipid.

7, lower blood sugar

Fucoidan in kelp is a good dietary fiber, after eating kelp can delay gastric emptying and food through the small intestine time, help control blood sugar.

8, improve immunity

Kelp polysaccharide is an immunomodulator. Some studies have shown that kelp polysaccharide has a promoting effect on the immune function of normal and immunocompromised mice.

9, anti-radiation

The active substances in kelp can prevent the absorption of a variety of radioactive elements and harmful heavy metals, or generate insoluble compounds out of the body.