What's the function of eating celery? The effect of this food is very obvious. Taboo people will be more sensitive to this food. Some diseases are caused by eating the wrong health food. This kind of food can't have a certain effect. Health depends on the impact.
What's the effect of eating celery? 1 1, reducing blood lipid.
Celery has a good effect of reducing blood lipid and preventing arteriosclerosis. This is because celery contains a variety of unsaturated fatty acids, which helps to balance blood lipids.
2, calming the liver and lowering blood pressure
Celery not only lowers blood fat, but also has a good effect of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol. Studies have shown that 3- n-butylphthalic acid, a antihypertensive substance, exists in celery leaves in large quantities. The acidic antihypertensive components contained in celery are effective for primary hypertension, pregnancy and menopause.
3. Calm down and soothe your nerves
Celery contains butylphthalide, which is a compound with sedative effect. 3- n-butyl phthaloyl lactone and celery sedative are high in celery, so eating a celery at dinner has a good sleep-helping effect. In addition, an alkaline component separated from celery seeds can stabilize the human body; Apigenin or apigenin taken orally is beneficial to calm mood and eliminate irritability.
4, inhibit bacteria
Flavonoids in celery have the functions of regulating capillary fragility and permeability, scavenging free radicals and inhibiting bacteria. Coumarin is a phenylpropyl compound, which has anti-inflammatory, detumescence, spasmolytic, sedative and antibacterial effects. Furcoumarin has photosensitive activity and antibacterial effect on skin.
5, anti-cancer and anti-cancer
Butylphthalide compounds in celery have strong anticancer activity, among which chlorophyll and chlorophyllin have strong inhibitory effect on mutation, and chlorophyll can also inhibit the carcinogenic activity of strong carcinogens aflatoxin and benzopyrene. In addition, celery can also prevent colon cancer.
What's the function of eating celery? 2 How to choose celery
1. Identify four kinds of celery
Green celery has a strong fragrance; Huangxinqin is rich in flavor, tender and crisp; White celery is light and not crisp; Celery tastes light and crisp.
2. Distinguish whether to transplant celery or in-situ celery.
As we know, there are two ways to grow celery, one is to raise seedlings before transplanting, and the other is to plant after sowing until harvest (without transplanting). So generally speaking, the quality of transplanted celery is good, and the quality of in-situ celery (not transplanted) is poor.
In addition, the length of celery is not a sign of tenderness. Celery in situ is generally shorter, but older.
So when buying celery, it is very important to distinguish between transplanted celery and in-situ celery. Because celery is harvested with roots, the roots of transplanted celery are generally short and few, while the roots of in-situ celery are many and long.
3, celery fresh, mainly depends on whether the leaves are straight.
Fresh celery is flat. Celery stored for a long time, the tip of the leaf will tilt, the leaves will become soft, and even yellow and rust.
Choose thick and tender petioles, 1 plant with 4-6 petioles, 40-50 cm long, without yellow leaves, diseased leaves and broken leaves, and the leaf color and petiole color are in line with the characteristics of the original variety, and it is better to be neat and uniform. According to the truth, the petiole is not hollow, the petiole is wide, the leaves are dark green and the mouth is crisp and tender.
4. It's not advisable to buy the ones with dark green leaves.
No matter what kind of cooking recipe celery is, it is not suitable to buy celery with dark green leaves. Because the leaves are "black", it means that the growing period is dry and short of water, and the growth is slow, and there are many crude fibers.