Black sesame has super antioxidant capacity, and excellent fatty acids are beneficial to regulate blood lipids.
Where does the super antioxidant capacity of black sesame come from? Half of black sesame belongs to fat, and the fat of black sesame is called "essential fatty acid", that is, it is a substance that the human body cannot make and must be taken from food. Sesame has a lot of fat, but the proportion of fatty acids is excellent. Polyunsaturated fatty acids account for about 45%, monounsaturated fatty acids account for about 40%, and saturated fatty acids only account for 10%, which is beneficial to regulating blood lipids.
Black sesame is rich in high-quality fatty acids, such as linseed oleic acid, palmitoleic acid, stearic acid and glyceryl trioleate. The main fatty acid of black sesame is linolenic acid, which is an indispensable essential fatty acid for human body. Without it, some hormones in the body cannot be produced normally. The sesame-oil chicken that pregnant women drink is a tonic, and it is also related to flax oleic acid in sesame oil, which can help pregnant women contract their uterus and help eliminate lochia.
Ingredients of black sesame star: anthocyanin, sesame lignin.
Li Hongqi, a Japanese health information expert, said in his new book "Healthy Dietotherapy of Black Sesame: Clear Eyes and Detoxification, Conditioning Physique and Never Aging" that after a series of studies on the powerful antioxidant function of Black Sesame, people began to pay attention to its two bright components-anthocyanins and sesame lignin. Anthocyanin is a black component of black sesame, which mostly exists in the cell fluid of seed coat. Clinical experiments show that anthocyanins in black sesame have the advantages of enhancing immunity and preventing cancer cell proliferation.
The benefits of anthocyanins don't stop there. After eating black sesame seeds for a period of time, you will find that your hair becomes black and bright. It turns out that anthocyanins act on hair roots.
Although the lignin-like substance of black sesame only accounts for 1%, its strong antioxidant capacity is unparalleled. There are six kinds of quasi-lignin, of which "sesame" is the most widely known. 1100g of black sesame contains 490 mg of "sesamin", which has good anti-cancer ability.
Therefore, the biggest role of anthocyanins and sesame quasi-lignin is to prevent the harm of reactive oxygen species to human body.