Kelp, is a large Marine brown algae growing in low-temperature seawater, is an edible seaweed, can be used for mixing, burning, stewing, stewing and other cooking methods. Laminaria japonica (Laminaria japonica) belongs to the group of vesicles (not plant group), kelp family. Sporophyte large, brown, flat ribbon, length up to 20M. Divided into leaf, stalk, and fixator, fixator was pseudo-root-like. The leaf is composed of epidermis, cortex, and pith, and there is sporangium in the lower part of the leaf. Have mucous cavity, can secrete slippery material. A tree-like branch of a fixator used to attach to seafloor rocks. Grows in cooler seas. Cultivated at the coastal area at the east and north coast of China, the world's first yield. Rich in alga and iodine, can be used to extract iodine, alga, mannitol and other industrial raw materials. Its phylloid can be used as medicine.
Kelp is a kind of food with high nutritional value and medicinal value. Contains 3-10% iodine and other minerals. Kelp contains a low quantity of heat, medium protein content and rich minerals. There are crude fiber, inorganic salt, carotene, calcium, iron and vitamin B1. It is found that kelp has many biological functions such as lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, regulating immunity, anti-coagulation, anti-tumor, discharging lead and detoxifying and anti-oxidation.
The Nutritional Value of kelp.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp tastes slightly cold, non-toxic, with a soft hardness and dissipate stagnation, dispel phlegm, anti-asthma, eliminate dampness and reduce swelling, remove fat and blood pressure and other effects.
In the 1980s, scientists conducted food surveys of residents of the coastal area, the island with the longest life expectancy and highest centenarian ratio. The results showed that in addition to eating more potatoes, beans, and vegetables, the residents of this county ate the most algae such as kelp. That may be an important factor in longevity.
Modern medical research has proved that kelp contains many nutrients and medicinal ingredients which are beneficial to human health. Eating kelp can reduce blood sugar, blood fat and cholesterol can effectively prevent arteriosclerosis, constipation, cancer, senile dementia and anti-aging. Therefore, kelp was called "longevity food."
Kelp is a "longevity dish" because it has high nutritional and medicinal values.
For example, nourish your hair. You probably know most about black sesame seeds, ginger, or walnuts that make your hair shiny. But protect hair most is kelp, nutrition expert thinks, often eat kelp not only can complement the iodine element of the body, and grow to the hair, keep moisture, also has a special effect to a bright luster.
Besides, kelp often has a layer of hoar-frost like white powder — mannitol, it is a valuable medicinal material. Modern scientific research proves that mannitol has the effect of lowering blood pressure, diuresis and reducing swelling. Besides, kelp contains numerous unsaturated fatty acids and food fiber, can remove adhere to the vascular wall of cholesterol, regulate gastrointestinal system, promote the excretion of cholesterol.
The effect and action of kelp.
✵1. Prevention and treatment of goiter: Kelp contains iodine and iodide, which can prevent and treat iodine-deficient goiter.
✵2. Lower blood pressure: Kelp, potassium salt and calcium can reduce the absorption of cholesterol and blood pressure.
✵3. Lower blood lipid: Kelp contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acid and food fiber, which can remove the cholesterol attached to the blood vessel wall, regulate the gastrointestinal tract, and promote the excretion of cholesterol.
✵4. Suppress tumors: Hot water extract of kelp has an obvious cytotoxic effect on human KB cancer cells in vitro and has an obvious inhibitory effect on S180 tumor. Moreover, kelp is rich in anti-cancer star selenium, which has an anti-cancer effect.
✵5. Boost immunity: Kelp can improve the body's humoral immunity, promote the body's cellular immunity, and regulate immunity of many foods, shiitake is one of them;
✵6. Hypoglycemic: Kelp contains 60% polysaccharide of celeriac, which is an excellent food fiber. After diabetics eat kelp, it can delay gastric empelling and the time of food passing through the small intestine. Thus, even if the insulin secretion is reduced, the blood sugar content will not rise, to achieve the purpose of treating diabetes.
✵7. Prompt Diuresis, reduce swelling: Kelp often adhere to a layer of hoar-frost like white powder - mannitol, it is a valuable medicinal material. Modern scientific research proves that mannitol has the effect of lowering blood pressure, prompt diuresis and reducing swelling;
✵8. Prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: Kelp contains numerous polyunsaturated fatty acid EPA, can make blood viscosity reduced, reduce vascular hardening. Therefore, eating kelp can prevent cardiovascular diseases;
✵9. Eliminate mammary gland hyperplasia: A lot of iodine in kelp can stimulate the pituitary gland, make estrogen level inside female body decreases, restore ovarian normal function, correct endocrine maladjustment, eliminate the hidden danger of mammary gland hyperplasia;
✵10. Haircare: Kelp is extremely rich in iodine, which is the main raw material for the synthesis of thyroxine in the body, and the luster of the hair is formed by the role of thyroxine in the body;
✵11. Calcium: Kelp is rich in calcium, which can prevent calcium deficiency in human body.
✵12. Beauty: Kelp juice can aid beauty, with kelp boil into the soup juice with bubble bath, can moisten the skin, make the skin fresh and smooth, and beautiful;
✵13. Lose weight: Kelp contains a lot of dietary fiber, can increase the satiety feeling of a fat person, and adipose content is very low, the quantity of heat is small, it is the food that fat person could eat to reduce weight;
✵14. Delay aging: Kelp is rich in calcium and iodine, which contribute to the synthesis of thyroxine. These two kinds of food combination, can not only help beautify, but also delay aging.
Tips of Kelp:
✵How to buy kelp?
Some kelp on the market looks green and fresh, which is easy to attract consumers to buy, but this kelp is likely to be dyed by chemical bleaching.
Normal kelp is brown-green, earth yellow, the "fresh green" kelp is likely to be handled and soaked with "sodium disulfite" and "alkaline green" and other chemical materials by ugly sellers, dyed and processed. The "chemical kelp" does not fade in color so it always looks "fresh" and "green", but a closer examination of the dyed kelp knots reveals that the folds differ from the apparent colors on the outside.
✵Eating kelp matters needing attention:
Many people worry that kelp is not easy to cook, so before cooking they soak it in water for a long time, in fact, this is not right.
Kelp contains kelp gum, alginate, and other substances, once absorb water, will make kelp surface appear viscous gel, prevent further immersion of water, so it is difficult to cook through. Besides, the nutrient in kelp such as water-soluble vitamin, the mineral also can dissolve in water, immerse for a long time, the nutrient value can be reduced.
The recommended method is steaming and then soaking.
Kelp is not fit for everyone, pay attention to the following three taboos: people with weak spleen and cold stomach and patients with hyperthyroidism can not eat kelp, because the content of iodine in kelp is higher, if they eat will aggravate the disease.
Don't drink tea immediately after eating kelp, because drinking tea or eating sour food can affect the body's absorption of iron from kelp.
Kelp, is a large Marine brown algae growing in low-temperature seawater, is an edible seaweed, can be used for mixing, burning, stewing, stewing and other cooking methods. Laminaria japonica (Laminaria japonica) belongs to the group of vesicles (not plant group), kelp family. Sporophyte large, brown, flat ribbon, length up to 20M. Divided into leaf, stalk, and fixator, fixator was pseudo-root-like. The leaf is composed of epidermis, cortex, and pith, and there is sporangium in the lower part of the leaf. Have mucous cavity, can secrete slippery material. A tree-like branch of a fixator used to attach to seafloor rocks. Grows in cooler seas. Cultivated at the coastal area at the east and north coast of China, the world's first yield. Rich in alga and iodine, can be used to extract iodine, alga, mannitol and other industrial raw materials. Its phylloid can be used as medicine.
Kelp is a kind of food with high nutritional value and medicinal value. Contains 3-10% iodine and other minerals. Kelp contains a low quantity of heat, medium protein content and rich minerals. There are crude fiber, inorganic salt, carotene, calcium, iron and vitamin B1. It is found that kelp has many biological functions such as lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, regulating immunity, anti-coagulation, anti-tumor, discharging lead and detoxifying and anti-oxidation.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp tastes slightly cold, non-toxic, with a soft hardness and dissipate stagnation, dispel phlegm, anti-asthma, eliminate dampness and reduce swelling, remove fat and blood pressure and other effects.
✵1. Prevention and treatment of goiter: Kelp contains iodine and iodide, which can prevent and treat iodine-deficient goiter.
✵How to buy kelp?
