Speaking of health, how can you eat less medlar?
In recent years, not only middle-aged and elderly people continue to like the old cadre-style health preservation of "thermos cup with medlar", but even young people are increasingly fond of using medlar as "punk health preservation".
The sales of Lycium barbarum are increasing year by year. Many post-90s people began to grow Lycium barbarum in their own yards. Some innovative young people even invented the operation of "Lycium barbarum with beer" and "Lycium barbarum with cola". . .
After eating Lycium barbarum for so many years, do you know its nutritional value?
Lycium barbarum is not a new food in recent years. Its history can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty at least 3000 years ago. In the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there are records about Lycium barbarum.
In the long historical period, Lycium barbarum has always been an important Chinese herbal medicine, and it has also been included in the calendar edition of China Pharmacopoeia.
In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen once recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that "Lycium barbarum is sweet and moist, nourishing and strong, and can nourish the kidney and moisten the lungs, and generate lean qi. This is a tonic. "
Let's take a look at the main nutritional components of Lycium barbarum:
(Source: Mint Food Bank)
Lycium barbarum is not low in calories, but because most people use it to soak in water or eat it in a small amount when cooking, it will not bring us a heat burden.
From a nutritional point of view, the main components of Lycium barbarum are carbohydrates and protein. In addition, it is rich in vitamin A and carotene, and also contains many other trace elements beneficial to human body.
Traditional Chinese medicine has many records on the benefits of Lycium barbarum, such as improving eyesight and strengthening yang, nourishing yin and tonifying lung, resisting cancer and aging, and enhancing immunity. These statements are also reasonable from the perspective of nutrition.
For example, the natural pigment rich in Lycium barbarum has certain antioxidant effect, which really helps to delay aging.
As a precursor of vitamin A, β -carotene in Lycium barbarum can prevent vitamin A deficiency and dry eye, which is very suitable for people who stay up late.
Lycium barbarum also contains some atropine, which can be used as a natural "stimulant" to relieve fatigue.
There are also some reports that the polysaccharides in Lycium barbarum can reduce blood pressure, blood sugar, regulate immunity and even reduce radiation damage.
However, if you think Lycium barbarum is a panacea, it is unnecessary.
First of all, these benefits of Lycium barbarum are mostly theoretical, and there is not enough human experimental data to prove them.
You know, in order to prove that a substance has an impact on human health, human experiments are the most reliable research methods. Theory and practice are often two different things, and it is not enough to prove them in theory.
Secondly, abandoning the dose to talk about the curative effect is hooliganism. Even if it is beneficial to the human body, it is hard to say what effect it will have if you only drink a few pieces of water every day at a certain dose.
Seeing this, I believe many people are already a little confused. Does Chinese wolfberry have any nutritional value? Should I still eat Chinese wolfberry?
The answer is simple:
Eat if you like. If you don't like it, there is no need to force it.
Nutrition is a science with a short development time, and the research on many foods and nutrients is not deep enough. It is also a very time-consuming and laborious thing to conduct large-scale human experiments.
This leads to a lot of food. There is no clear evidence that it is really good for the body, but there is no evidence that it is definitely bad for the body.
Due to the lack of human experimental data, these foods can not be clearly proved to be effective and can not be used as drugs. Therefore, they are often called "health food".
Lycium barbarum is a typical example.
For this kind of food, as long as the price is not too high, it can be bought and eaten, which may really bring benefits to the body. No matter how bad it is, it will also contribute to the healthy psychological effect!
What's more, the soaked wolfberry tastes good.
However, as an ordinary person, there is no need to try some very expensive Lycium barbarum varieties, claiming that the health care effect is several times and dozens of times higher than that of ordinary Lycium barbarum.
This kind of high-priced medlar does have a better appearance and taste, and its nutritional value may be higher, but it is not too high, but it is still quite low in terms of cost performance.