Brief introduction:
Celery, a very common green vegetable in daily life, can be used both on leaves and stems, and has very high nutritional value, but many people will not associate celery with medicine, but they do not know that celery is a very important medicine in the kitchen.
Celery, a very common green vegetable in daily life, can be used both on leaves and stems, and has very high nutritional value, but many people will not associate celery with medicine, but they do not know that celery is a very important medicine in the kitchen.
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Why celery is a vegetable tempura?
The cultivation history of celery is long, at the beginning is not a vegetable crop, the Greeks many years ago to cultivate celery with medicinal plants, Chinese celery is imported from the Caucasus, the Ming Dynasty "Compendium of Materia Medica" has celery medicinal records, can be used to treat stomach diseases, and then gradually evolved into one of the vegetables that everyone eats daily.
The aroma of celery is fragrant and pleasant, and the part that is generally eaten is the petiole rather than the stem, and the stem of celery is actually very short, so celery is classified as a leafy vegetable. Celery can be fried, raw food, or used as a seasoned vegetable, and coriander is one of the most commonly used flavor condiments, such as Taiwanese fried rice noodles, rice noodle soup, fish ball soup, gong maru soup, if you lack a handful of celery in floating noodles, then the flavor is completely lost.
The aroma of celery is really not to be underestimated. Taiwan's local celery is based on traditional yellow heart celery and green stem Hainan green celery, yellow heart celery has a strong aroma, most suitable as a seasoning vegetable, while Hainan green celery green stem is thick, the market generally called "celery tube", most suitable for stir-frying, the taste is particularly crisp.
The petiole of celery is thicker, which is very suitable for raw food and is one of the necessary ingredients for lettuce salads, but it is as delicious as stir-frying, and it goes particularly well with seafood.
Benefits for health:
Celery is rich in nutrients, containing protein, various vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber that is indispensable to the human body, and the components of celery stems and leaves help lower blood pressure, strengthen the stomach, and increase appetite, which is a good vegetable. The leaves of celery contain more carotene and vitamins than the petioles we eat, but the dark green leaves are usually astringent and difficult to swallow, but the yellow-green young leaves can be left and dipped in batter and fried, which is a healthy and delicious vegetable tempura.
Celery curtain cold and bitter, non-toxic, into the lungs and stomach, liver meridian. It has the effect of calming the liver and clearing heat, dissolving phlegm and qi, strengthening stomach and diuresis, dispelling wind and dampness, calming and lowering blood pressure. It can treat hypertension, vascularization, neurosis, menstrual irregularities, etc.
Celery and parsley:
Celery is divided into celery and parsley, and the curative effect is best with celery. Celery contains a variety of biotics, proteins, and vitamin P, which can reduce capillary permeability, increase blood vessel elasticity, and have the effect of restricting blood pressure, clearing blood vessels, preventing arterial itemization and capillary bursting.
1. Inhibit bacteria
After medical research, it has been found that celery has a very good bacteriostatic effect.
Because celery contains a large number of flavonoids, this substance can well clear free radicals in the body, regulate the fragility and permeability of capillaries, and play a bacteriostatic effect.
Free radicals will reduce the body's immunity, so free radicals can effectively improve immunity and improve the body's disease resistance.
Increased fragility and permeability of capillaries will reduce the occurrence of some blood diseases such as bursting blood vessels.
The antibacterial effect is mainly reflected in the invasion of external bacteria by the human epidermis, of which coumarin is a class of phenylpropyl compounds, which has anti-inflammatory, swelling, antispasmodic, sedative, antibacterial and other effects; Furocoumarin has photosensitive activity and antibacterial effect on the skin; The chlorophyll in it has important anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory and wound healing effects.
2. Lower blood pressure
Coumarin and furocoumarin derivatives in celery have a very high adjuvant therapeutic effect on hypertensive patients, which can not only lower blood pressure, but also lower fat and cholesterol, and also have good weight loss effects for obese patients.
3. Lower blood lipids
Lowering blood lipids, is a very important thing for the human body, if the blood lipids are too high, the human body will appear arteriosclerosis, victory function and activity will be reduced a lot, and long-term high blood lipids, will make skin lesions, liver degradation, the body's own growth function and metabolism decrease.
The hypolipidemic function of celery is derived from 13 fatty acids in celery seed oil, of which unsaturated fatty acids account for 69.20%. Among the six unsaturated fatty acids detected, the content of 6-octadecenoic acid ranked first, with a content of 6.58%; The content of linoleic acid is as high as 18.9%.
4. Sedation
The sedative effect can make the human body effectively fight a series of neurological problems such as insomnia and excitement. So eating celery at night can be a good sleep aid, because celery contains Butylphthalide is a class of compounds with sedative effects.
At present, 5 such ingredients have been extracted from celery seed oil, of which 3-N-butyl-phthaloyllactone and celery sedative are about high in celery, which are all elements that have a good effect on sleep.
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