Seaweed unique flavor, many ways to eat, cold, meat fried, simmering soup, everything. Kelp is a kind of alkaline food, often eaten will increase the body's absorption of calcium, in the greasy food mixed with a little kelp, can reduce the accumulation of fat in the body. Kelp has the highest iodine content of all foods, with 300 mg to 700 mg of iodine per 100 grams of kelp. 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, eating kelp has a preventive effect on this disease. Pregnant women who do not take enough iodine will affect the growth and development of the fetus, resulting in poor fetal development after birth, low intelligence, so pregnant women should eat some kelp. Experts believe that due to excessive intake of animal protein, refined meat, sugar, etc., easy to lead to thyroid secretion and skin metabolic disorders, the formation of gray hair, often eat kelp to help prevent and reduce the hair white.
The Chinese medicine believes that the kelp is salty and cold, non-toxic, has a soft knot, eliminate phlegm and asthma, pass water, fat and blood pressure and other efficacy; can be treated carbuncle and swellings, hostile food does not go away, urinary incontinence, coughing, oedema, hypertension and other diseases. Modern medical research shows that the kelp extracted from the sodium salt of fucoidan, with antihypertensive effect. Japanese scientists with 60 ℃ water immersion kelp, and then concentrated leachate, to hypertensive patients to take, so that their blood pressure decreased. Scientists also made the kelp precipitate mannitol nitrate made of coronary heart disease special medicine, to hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease patients to take.
Modern pharmacological studies show that: kelp precipitates mannitol is an osmotic diuretic, it enters the body after the reduction of intracranial pressure, intraocular pressure, reduce cerebral edema, edema, etc., is edema, urination patients with dietary therapy. Kelp also has a preventive effect on cancer. Kelp is alkaline food with high calcium content. Calcium is an important substance to prevent blood acidification, which helps prevent cancer. Carbohydrates and carotenoids in kelp also help prevent and fight cancer. Kelp can exclude the effects of cancer cells on the human stomach and intestines, preventing the occurrence of stomach cancer.
But kelp is cold in nature and is contraindicated for those with cold spleen and stomach. Kelp contains a certain amount of arsenic, excessive intake of arsenic can cause acid poisoning. Therefore, before eating kelp, it should be rinsed with water first, so that arsenic dissolves in water, soak for 24 hours and change the water diligently, so that the arsenic content of kelp in line with food hygiene standards.