Olives contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Among them, the calcium content of fresh olives is among the best in the fruit family. In unusually dry weather, if you eat olives regularly, it will have a good effect of moistening your throat and quenching your thirst.
Four benefits of eating olives
1, moistening lung and relieving cough
Olive is rich in tannic acid, volatile oil, aromatic resin alcohol and other substances, and has the effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, moistening throat, diminishing inflammation and swelling, moistening throat and relieving cough, and clearing away lung heat.
For people with sore throat caused by long-term cough or chronic pharyngitis, if they can't distinguish between cold and heat, they can use a relatively safe dietotherapy remedy-green olive radish pork lean broth, which has a good dietotherapy effect on preventing and treating throat discomfort after long-term cough.
Tip: green olive radish pork lean broth
Ingredients: green olive 1 00g, white radish 500g, candied dates1piece, dried tangerine peel 1/4 pieces, and lean pork 300g.
Production method: wash everything separately, peel the radish and cut it into large pieces, and cut the olive in half; Peeling candied dates; Wash the dried tangerine peel and soak it slightly; Cut the lean pork into chunks. Put them into the clay pot together, add a proper amount of water, and when the pot boils, change it to a small fire pot 1~ 1.5 hours, and add a proper amount of salt. This amount can be used by 2~3 people.
Efficacy: resolving phlegm and relieving cough, relieving sore throat.
2. Quench thirst
Olive is rich in nutrition and moisture, and its taste is monophosphoric acid, which can replenish human body fluids and nutrition in time and achieve the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Step 3 supplement calcium
Olive is rich in calcium. Olive oil can promote the growth of bones, maintain the health of human bones and prevent osteoporosis. Therefore, it is recommended that children, women and the elderly eat it to promote bone growth and protect bone health.
4. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
Olive can also promote blood circulation, effectively prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, arteriosclerosis and its complications, hypertension, heart failure, renal failure, cerebral hemorrhage and other diseases.
5. Prevent brain cancer
Oleic acid is a monounsaturated fatty acid, which exists in animals and plants and is also the main component of olive oil. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh analyzed this substance in depth in a laboratory environment.