Everyone can eat sesame oil, especially middle-aged and elderly people.

Benefits of eating sesame oil:

1. Treat rhinitis. For patients with chronic rhinitis, dip a sterile cotton ball in sesame oil and apply it to the affected area of ??the nasal cavity to relieve symptoms.

2. Protect your throat. Regular drinking of sesame oil can enhance the elasticity of the vocal cords, make the glottis open and close flexibly and powerfully, and has a good recovery effect on hoarseness and chronic pharyngitis.

3. Soften blood vessels. Sesame oil is extremely rich in vitamin E. Vitamin E is beneficial to maintaining the integrity of cell membranes and normal physiological functions. It can also reduce the accumulation of fat in the human body and has a good effect on softening blood vessels and maintaining blood vessel elasticity.

4. Promote appetite. The rich aroma of sesame oil not only increases appetite, but also facilitates the absorption of nutrients. The digestion and absorption rate of sesame oil itself is also high, reaching 98%.

5. Promote cholesterol metabolism. Sesame oil contains unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and palmitic acid, which are easily absorbed by the body to promote the metabolism of cholesterol, help remove deposits on arterial blood vessel walls, and protect blood vessels.

6. Promote defecation and prevent constipation. Sesame oil contains a large amount of oil and has a good laxative effect, which has a certain preventive effect and curative effect on constipation.

5 types of sesame oils you should not eat

1. Don’t eat rancid sesame oils. Rancid sesame oil causes metabolic disorders and gastrointestinal dysfunction in the human body.

2. Do not eat sesame oil mixed with cottonseed oil. Gossypol in cottonseed oil causes male impotence, infertility, and reproductive failure.

3. Do not eat sesame oil mixed with "gutter oil". "Gutter oil" is highly toxic and contains various bacteria, which is far more harmful to the human body than "black cotton".

4. You cannot eat sesame oil contained in medical waste bottles. Medical waste bottles have great infectious risks and can directly cause serious contamination of sesame oil.

5. Do not eat sesame oil mixed with other oils. Although it does no major harm to the human body, it has no beneficial functions to the human body.

The above content refers to People's Daily Online - 10 benefits of sesame oil for middle-aged and elderly people