Watercress no 100g contains sodium 40mg and potassium content of 212mg, belonging to the typical high potassium and low sodium food, very suitable for patients with high blood pressure to eat, can play a very good blood pressure reduction effect. And watercress also contains watercressin, brassicasin, and geranylgeranyl, all of which have the effect of lowering blood pressure.
2 Reduce blood sugar
Watercress has a high content of glycoconjugate compounds, but most of them are lignin and cellulose, and contain very low sugar, which will not raise blood sugar after consumption, and watercress contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can inhibit the body's absorption of sugar, and can reduce blood sugar after consumption.
3 Reduce blood fat
Watercress contains a lot of vitamin C, especially drinking watercress juice, supplemental vitamin C effect is better, can vitamin C's strong oxidizing properties to help the body remove a large number of "bad cholesterol", reduce the formation of blood clots, can play the effect of blood fat.
4 laxative
Watercress and celery are very similar to a large amount of fiber, watercress in the dietary fiber and lignin and intestinal lipids material content is very high, after eating a large number of gastrointestinal water absorption expansion, increase the humidity of feces, but also stimulate the gastrointestinal peristalsis, accelerate the operation of feces in the intestinal tract, can play the role of laxative.