Showing posts with label vegetable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetable. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Efficacy vegetable asparagus


Asparagus is a vegetable from a single species of plants of the genus Asparagus. Asparagus has been used for a long time as a food because it tastes delicious and diuretiknya properties. Asparagus believed to facilitate urinary tract so as to improve the performance of the kidneys. Asparagus is the best source of folic acid plant, is very low in calories, contains no fat or cholesterol, and contain very little sodium. Asparagus is usually served as fresh vegetables or canned food, asparagus processing depending on the user interests and preferences.

It also has properties that other asparagus, namely:
Asparagus is usually boiled or contrived nutrient-rich juice is vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B6, calcium, magnesium, zinc, protein, vitamin A, vitamin K, thiamine, riboflavin, rutin, niacin, iron, phosphorus, potassium, copper , manganese, and selenium, as well as rich in natural fibers which can launch the digestive system. These vegetables are also low in calories, contains no fat or cholesterol, and contains little sodium. Efficacy of the body including the asparagus can improve the function of the cardiovascular system by strengthening the heart, improving blood flow, and strengthens the body's capillaries.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Benefits and Efficacy of Long Nuts for health


Chickpea is one vegetable that is very often encountered and often used as a main ingredient or dish used as vegetables. Long beans are easy to find, especially in Asia, namely Indonesia. Besides easy to find, long beans is one vegetable that is very easy to be processed into a variety of healthy and nutritious foods. That's because the bean has its benefits and efficacy are needed for the health of our bodies.


Here are some of the benefits of green beans that we can get to diligently consume:
1. Controlling blood sugar levels.
2. Overcoming hypertension.
3. Helps reduce the risk of stroke.
4. Preventing a heart attack.
5. Improving the function of the digestive organs.
6. Reduce the risk of cancer.
7. Help overcome constipation.

Besides some of the benefits of beans above, there are several benefits and efficacy of consuming beans, such as help treat rheumatism, arthritis and urinary tract disorders, overcoming diarrhea, kidney disease and reduce itching - itching. And for beauty, capable of protecting the skin from acne and burn healing.

Efficacy and Benefits of beans


Beans is a kind of beans that can be eaten. Fruits, seeds, and leaves are used as a vegetable person. These vegetables are rich in protein content. Chemical constituents in fruits, stems, and leaves are alkaloids, saponins, polyphenols, and flavonoids, amino acids, asparagine, tannins, fasin (toksalbumin). While the chemical content of the seeds is glukoprotein, trypsin inhibitor, hemagglutinin, stigmasterol, sitosterol, kaempesterol, allantoin and inositol. Seed coat contains leukopelargonidin, leukosianidin, kaempferol, quercetin, mirisetin, pelargonidin, sianidin, delfinidin, pentunididin and mal-vidin. Fresh green beans contain vitamin A and vitamin C. While the nutritional content, on every 100 g of beans contained 24 g protein, 0.2 g fat, 7.7 g carbohydrates, 6.5 calcium, iron, and 1.1. 
Some of the benefits of beans are:
• Ability to launch the digestive system, preventing constipation.
• Stimulates the immune system naturally.
• Neutralize blood sugar. Based on research, a substance contained in beans b-sitosterol and stigmasterol were able to increase the production of insulin. Insulin itself is a hormone produced naturally by the pancreas and works to lower blood sugar levels. If the pancreas is only able to produce less insulin (or not at all) then the person will be exposed to the disease diabetes mellitus. Thus, by eating beans, we will also be protected from diabetes.
• Preventing colon cancer.
• Ability to minimize the risk of malignant cancer
• The benefits of beans under the age of one month: launch ation for moms who breastfeed their babies and to reduce calcification rates in humans.
• Beans are also efficacious shed urine (diuretic) and remove toxins.
• Young fruit contains nutrients and glucoside a merit increase spleen function.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Katuk leaf for health benefits

Leaves katuk (Saurapus androgynus) better known by the people of Indonesia as a vegetable, leaf katuk it turned out a lot that are beneficial to the body, such as protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, B, and C. Just imagine in 100 g leaves katuk are 59 cal energy, 6.4 g protein, 1.0 g fat, 9.9 g carbohydrate, 1.5 g fiber, 1.7 g ash, 233 mg calcium, 98 mg phosphorus , 3.5 mg iron, 10020 mcg carotene, 164 mg vitamin A, B, and C, and 81 g of water.
But be careful! behind the benefits are so many, it turns out when we consume too many leaves there are some obstacles katuk hazards such as: "If you eat 150g of raw katuk leaf juice for 2 weeks to 7 months, there will be difficulty sleeping, going on lung disorders such as bronchiolitis are permanent, not tasty meal even shortness of breath. "For it is recommended not to consume too much leaf katuk. Before taking leaves katuk better boiled beforehand to eliminate anti-protozoa properties which means it is killing the toxins contained in katuk leaves, the leaves consume katuk maximum is 50 g per day.
These benefits and ingredients of the leaves katuk:
• Ulcers or sores: Prepare katuk a handful of leaves, then wash and mash, paste lumatan katuk Leaves on affected skin ulcers.
• Constipation or difficult bowel / small: Prepare 200 grams katuk the clean leaves, boiled with a glass of water for about 10 minutes, then strain. Drinking water distillate is regularly 2 times a day each 100 m
• Lack of breastfeeding: Prepare 100 grams of leaves katuk that is clean, boiled with a glass of water until the remaining half cup, strain and drink the water filter regularly 2 times a day, stopping when the milk has many.
• Yaws or skin disease: Prepare quarter katuk leaves were washed and grind until smooth. Add a quarter cup cooking water and a little salt, stir until smooth, then squeeze and strain. Feelings drinking water and waste in the body gets affected rubbing or skin disease yaws. Apply 2 times a day until healed.

Efficacy and benefits of vegetables peppers


Like a chili pepper is a vegetable that comes from South America, but is now widespread in the world and can be cultivated in almost all tropical and sub-tropical countries, including Indonesia. Vegetables are typically used as a seasoning mixture and garnish the dish, it turned out to have many benefits for your body and is believed to cure various diseases. Efficacy was caused by a number of vitamins and other substances contained in these peppers such as vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin C, vitamin E, iron, carbohydrates, niacin, capsaisin, phosphorus, beta-carotene, lycopene, folic acid, calcium and beta-cryptoxanthin.

Efficacy of peppers is to the body:
• Maintaining healthy skin: Eating peppers regularly can help to maintain healthy skin. The content of beta-carotene and vitamin A on peppers can also prevent rashes and acne on the face and other skin problems such as wrinkles and dry skin.
• Maintain eye health: Vitamin A and Vitamin C which is owned by the peppers are very beneficial for the eyes, especially in the prevention of cataracts. Addition of red peppers and orange peppers also contain lutein and zeaxanthin, which is a phytochemical that may help protect the eyes from macular degeneration which can lead to blindness in elderly people.
• Preventing stroke and heart disease: Paprika contains vitamin B6 and folic acid can lower homocysteine ​​levels in the blood when combined with vitamin C and beta-carotene. It is known that high levels of homocysteine ​​which will cause damage to the blood vessels and increase the risk of stroke and heart attack. Fiber content owned by peppers can also help lower cholesterol levels in the blood cause heart disease. In addition, the combination of vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E with capsaicin may also prevent blood clots that can lead to blockage of blood vessels, which can prevent you from hypertension, stroke and heart disease.
• Prevent arthritis: A study revealed that people who consume less foods containing high levels of vitamin C such as bell peppers, has a risk for arthritis are three times more likely than those who consume them.

Efficacy vegetable eggplant


Eggplant is one vegetable that has a specific substance. Some elements of vitamins and minerals contained in eggplant include: vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, sodium, chlorogenic acid, and trypsin that can lower cholesterol. That is, take the eggplant together with cholesterol foods, even make cholesterol in the diet is decreased. But, even then when eggplant is served with boiled or steamed. 
Eggplant can also prevent cancer, but most eat eggplant would be lethal to cells, to cause cancer. Eggplant can be used to keep the body slimness, controlling stress, because the content of compounds solanine which a certain amount, can loosen the tendons nerves or blood maintained so as not to go up and down drastically. 

Monday, October 15, 2012

Spinach for health benefits

Watercress including a very popular vegetable. Stir-fry or salad usually made. Watercress is also efficacious as an antidote and can treat a variety of health problems such as reducing the period that is too much, overcome food poisoning, blood urine, Anyang-anyangan (pee a little bit and it was painful), eliminating dandruff, and bleeding hemorrhoids. As a topical, kale can be used to treat ulcers, calluses, ulcers and inflammation of the skin. The content of spinach makes this plant a useful function as a traditional medicine.

Benefits and efficacy of cabbage

Cabbage is a vegetable that is usually eaten as vegetables, and often made vegetable soup. This vegetable is one of the oldest plants and are believed to have originated in Asia and the Mediterranean. Currently, the cabbage is probably one of the most widely cultivated plants in the world both in the tropics and semi-tropics.

• Lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) in the body
• Treat skin diseases (crushed and then smeared into cuts or oral / edible)
• Reduce the risk of contracting the disorder stroke and heart disease
• Clean the influence of alcohol in the blood
• Reduce the risk of cataracts
• Helps digestive health
• To prevent anal cancer, gastric cancer and cancer of the large intestine (colon)
• Accelerates healing ulcer pain
• Skin care, antioxidants in cabbage help protect the skin from free radical damage known to cause signs of aging

Efficacy Pare

Pare is a living vine vegetables, vegetable is also known for its bitter taste and skin structure berbintil irregular nodules. It is not attractive at all but pare vegetables has many benefits. Can stimulate appetite, to cure jaundice, digestive Streamlining, malaria drugs, can lower blood sugar levels, slow down the HIV-Aids virus, and the content of vitamin C can function 120ml/100 gram pare also maintain the beauty of skin, against cancer cells, prevent cancer breast.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Efficacy basil in health

Basil is often used for salad served along with chili, cabbage leaves, and slices of cucumber. Basil leaves have a distinctive smell which is quite strong but soft.
Efficacy basil leaves for health is very diverse. One is if you have a problem with bad breath or body odor, can eat fresh basil salad every day routine.
But if you do not like the taste can make the juice of basil leaves mixed with turmeric and beluntas leaves and drank regularly every day. Basil leaves can also treat Thrush, take 50 basil leaves washed, chew for 2-3 minutes until smooth. Swallow. Drink warm water. Do this 3x a day.

Efficacy Papaya Leaf

Papaya leaf is one leaf herbs that are beneficial for health. Community knew him other than as papaya herbal medicine used for culinary purposes, namely as a meat tenderizer. Benefits of papaya leaf itself, are:

• As an acne remedy: papaya leaves have properties as a solution for those who mempuyai stubborn acne. How to make that; quotation old 2-3 papaya leaves then dry in the sun for a while so that the leaves looked wilted. Once it leaves that have withered until finely ground. The results of the collision given little water and apply on the face that are acne until some time (if only da neresap on acne) then rinse with clean water (do not use a facial cleanser or soap to clean the herb of the face).

• Replenish appetite: Papaya leaves can be efficacious as an appetite enhancer for both adults and children. How to make herb appetite enhancer is to grind fine or it could be a blender blend of papaya leaves one sheet plus a little salt and warm water. Once smoothed continued to filter them. Once filtered potion ready to drink.

• Benefits Leaves treat menstrual pain: In the old days when women before menstruation frequently use to treat menstrual pain. Take one young leaves, add tamarind and salt. Then mix with a glass of water / 250 cc and boiled. take the water and add 2 tablespoons honey stir. after a cold drink.

Benefits of mustard greens

Green cabbage is known to contain a lot of vitamin K, A, C, E, folic acid and minerals. Mustard either to prevent pregnant women from anemia, mustard greens can help prevent osteoporosis as vitamin C in cabbage may regulate bone protein and calcium in the bones. The content of calcium in mustard also able to lower cholesterol and prevent diabetes mellitus.
 Sawi also can keep the cornea to keep it healthy in the presence of vitamin A will make epithelial cells secrete keratin, a protein that is not soluble in water. In addition, the folic acid content in mustard function in nucleoprotein synthesis process which is the core of the formation and production of grains - grains of red blood in the bone marrow that can prevent anemia. The content of vitamin E in the mustard can serve as a major antioxidant in cells. In addition to vitamin E, beta-carotene and vitamin C in cabbage is very good for cholesterol and prevent heart disease

Broccoli is rich in benefits

Broccoli is a vegetable belonging to the tribe cabbage. Eating broccoli regularly in daily diet can also help intelligence, because broccoli expedite the flow of amino acids to the brain. 

For pregnant women, are advised to eat broccoli, because of the folic acid contained therein. Broccoli can also regulate blood sugar levels and content of chromium in broccoli can regulate blood sugar levels so that broccoli consumption is recommended for diabetics

Efficacy of sprouts to health

Sprouts are the young shoots of seed nuts are sown. Sprouts also have much nutritional value nutrition folds compared to fruit or leaves. The beans were germinated, vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C increases ranging from 2.5 to 3-fold. Diligent eating sprouts help women avoid breast cancer and premenstrual disorders.
Seeing abundant nutritional substances, has been ascertained that the sprouts have a very good potential efficacy to maintain and promote health, and prevent various health problems.

• Increase fertility: Sprouts have the ability to increase fertility, if consumed regularly it will improve the quality of sperm. The content of vitamin E, especially vitamin E-alpha, and might help to improve fertility for men.

• Lose weight: Sprouts are also very free of fat, a cup of green bean sprouts, or about 124 grams contains only 0.11 grams of fat, so sprouts are a good source of food to lose weight. Low-fat diet with sprouts is very useful for weight loss. Besides a low-fat diet also reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes (due to lifestyle).

• Prevent menstrual disorders and menopause: Antioxidant content in sprouts can improve blood circulation in order to prevent and neutralize the factors supporting the occurrence of the disease. If you regularly eat sprouts before menstruation may help prevent complaints during menstruation. Eating sprouts as a source of vitamin E also may help prevent disruption of heat that is felt in the pre menoupause.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Efficacy spinach for health

Spinach is a plant commonly grown for its leaves are consumed as a green vegetable. Spinach consists of 2 kinds: Spinach and Spinach pull quotes. Spinach stringed upright growing broadleaf and large (up to two meters) and young leaves eaten mainly as fresh vegetables. While Spinach pull smaller and grown for a short time (a maximum of 25 days), more suitable for making soup. Spinach also contains essential antioxidants and phytochemicals that help protect the body against various diseases.

• Prevent Anemia: Spinach is a good source of iron which is needed to prevent anemia. Iron helps regenerate or reproduce red blood cells, which carry oxygen to all parts of the body.

• Preventing Osteoporosis: A cup of fresh spinach leaves kebutukan meet 200% daily value of vitamin K. This vitamin is important in the prevention of bone loss. In addition, other minerals such as magnesium, zinc, copper and phosphorus in spinach also helps strengthen bones.

• Improve the quality of vision: Spinach is a source of lutein, a carotenoid known to help protect the eyes against cataracts. Spinach is also rich in vitamin A, which makes it very useful for vision.

Benefits and efficacy of potatoes

Potatoes can be used as an alternative menu for those of you who do the diet to lose weight. Potatoes contain carbohydrates are high but fewer calories than rice and wheat.

Potatoes are also very suitable for those of you who have ulcer disease or illness mangalami often due to excess stomach acid. For the potatoes contained atropine which can help reduce stomach acid and reduce pain in the stomach, and have properties make tired eyes shining again and can eliminate puffiness of the eyes.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Efficacy carrots for health

Carrot for health benefits, especially the eyes no doubt. In addition to delicious vegetable also has a variety of nutrients is high enough that we can get, following them:

• Improve the digestive system: yellow / orange of carrots showed carotene content. Carrot juice has an effect on health. Drinking carrot juice is also good for the liver cleansing effects of vitamin A present in this vegetable. Vitamin A reduces bile and fat in the liver.
• Prevents night blindness and improve vision: carotene is also good for eye health. helps prevent night blindness and weak eyesight improving. vitamin A deficiency, known in medical terms as a vitaminosis, can cause night blindness or night blindness.
• Overcoming painful menstruation: 250 grams of carrots washed and cut into pieces. Add a little water, then blend. Try to drink this concoction at least 2 times a day.
• Overcoming burns: mashed carrots until smooth and spread on burns. Do it as often as possible until the wound is not hot.
• Eating carrots for 3 weeks, can lower the risk of heart attack by about 22%. Eating carrots at least 5 times a week can lower the risk of stroke by 68%. For those who have already had a stroke, vitamin A in carrots can prevent post-stroke disability. In 100 grams of carrots is known to contain 12 000 SI vitamin A.

Benefits of cucumber that you must know

 Cucumber is a vegetable of the gourd family and as an ingredient in food that has many health benefits for us:

• Prevent cancer: Cucumber is known to contain lariciresinol, pinoresinol, and secoisolariciresinol which has been linked to a reduced risk of some cancers, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and prostate cancer
• Lose weight and improving digestion: Cucumber is an ideal food for people who undergo weight-loss program. High water content and dietary fiber in cucumber is very effective to cleanse the digestive system of toxins and daily consumption of cucumber are considered to treat chronic constipation.
• Stabilize blood pressure: the presence of potassium, fiber, and magnesium make this vegetable is very good in regulating blood pressure. Special people with low blood pressure is better not to eat too many cucumbers.
• Face masks: water content, vitamins A, B & C and many other essential minerals making cucumber useful to tighten our skin and is an effective method of eliminating the black spots on the face.

Benefits of tomatoes

Tomato is a fruit that knows no season so easily found anywhere and anytime. Tomatoes as an additive in foods besides fruit is also very popular at all for use in juices. Also useful in treating acne beauty, smooth face, reduce blackheads and brighten the skin.

Tomatoes are also beneficial in health to prevent cell damage that triggers cervical cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer. Moreover, it can treat indigestion, diarrhea, restore liver function and bile attacks. Yellow liquid in tomato seeds are also good for preventing blood clots cause strokes and heart disease. So there are loads of benefits of tomatoes this, what are you waiting for consumption of tomatoes now.