Let's learn about soy sauce first:
Soy sauce, also known as bean paste and soy sauce, is a traditional sauce in China.
The main nutritional components of soy sauce: protein, fat, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.
So, what are the effects and functions of soy sauce?
1. Soy sauce is a kind of health care product with strong health care function. Therefore, for people with bad stomach, eating soy sauce can promote the health of the stomach to the greatest extent, or for those who have no bad appetite in the elderly, eating soy sauce can maximize their appetite. Moreover, eating soy sauce is of great help to those whose spleen and stomach are full, or whose physical strength is exhausted.
2. Soy sauce can also be used for external use. As long as there is no skin ulceration, you can apply some soy sauce when cooking and boiling water to solve minor burns. For example, if the hand is scalded by boiling water, after fully cooling the local temperature with cold water, apply some soy sauce to relieve pain and swelling, accelerate skin metabolism and promote healing.
3. It has certain anticancer effect. Because soy sauce is anticancer, and soy sauce is a common condiment brewed with soybeans. The research done by Chinese researchers shows that soybean, the main raw material of soy sauce, contains phytoestrogens, which can effectively control the production of estrogen in human body. Excessive estrogen in the human body can cause breast cancer. Soybean is rich in lecithin, which can improve the metabolism and immunity of human body and reduce the secretion of estrogen. It is a very useful essential substance, which has a certain effect on preventing cancer, especially breast cancer.
4. lower cholesterol. Soy sauce is also rich in linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which is beneficial to supplement essential fatty acids and lower cholesterol, thus reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
5. Strengthen the brain and prevent the formation of fatty liver. The fat in soy sauce is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and soybean phospholipids, which has the functions of maintaining vascular elasticity, strengthening brain and preventing fatty liver.
It should be noted that soy sauce has a high salt content, and patients with hypertension and kidney disease should eat less; People who are allergic to beans should eat carefully.
The above is an introduction to the efficacy and function of soy sauce. It seems that soy sauce can't be underestimated, and it still has many functions.