Function: It can reduce weight, strengthen body constitution, improve human immunity, promote children's growth and development, accelerate fracture healing, reduce weight and detoxify, and prevent constipation. According to the determination, the edible part of amaranth contains 90. 1g, protein 1.8g, crude fat 0.3g, dietary fiber 0.8g, carbohydrate 5.4g, carotene 1.95 mg and riboflavin 0.65438+46mg.
Life food is also called amaranth, and wild life food is millet. Life food is called life food because of its strong vitality.
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Amaranth leaves, seeds and roots are all used as medicine, which is cool and sweet. When it enters the large intestine and passes through the small intestine, it can clear away heat and toxic materials, promote dampness and promote defecation. According to the dictionary of traditional Chinese medicine, amaranth "can clear away heat and begin to understand, and can cure red and white dysentery, but it doesn't work." Amaranth seeds, also known as amaranth rice, are sweet and cold, and can clear the liver, improve eyesight and facilitate defecation. Amaranth rice contains 20% of protein, contains no cholesterol and is easy to digest.
Therefore, it has recently been used to make breakfast or children's food abroad, and it is called nutritious food. In addition, amaranth is regarded as a treasure in vegetables, and it is regarded as a good vegetable for enriching blood by the people. It has the reputation of "longevity vegetable" and "enriching blood". Amaranth is among the best vegetables, and the lysine content in protein reaches 2.8%. The content of calcium and iron is extremely high, more than double that of jackfruit, and there are no substances such as oxalic acid that interfere with mineral absorption?
People's Network-Amaranth dividends, white and green. I didn't expect it to have a different effect.
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