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Eating corn flour can reduce blood lipid and blood pressure and enhance memory.
Corn flour is a widely eaten food, which is very suitable for people with deficiency of spleen and stomach, deficiency of both qi and blood and malnutrition. Corn flour has high edible value. We can usually make many delicious foods from corn flour, such as corn flour steamed bread, corn vermicelli cake and so on. It is a kind of food suitable for all ages and has high therapeutic value.

Eating corn flour can reduce blood lipid and blood pressure and enhance memory.

What are the benefits of eating corn flour? It is very suitable for people suffering from hypertension, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease to eat corn flour. Corn flour is suitable for patients with obesity and fatty liver, especially for cancer patients and middle-aged and elderly people. Patients with habitual constipation and chronic nephritis edema can eat more corn flour, which is a good health care product and very beneficial to the body.

Efficacy and function of corn flour

1. Weight loss: Obese people can often eat corn flour, which can eliminate the hunger of obese people after eating, but the calories after eating are very low, and it is also one of the substitutes for weight loss.

2. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Cancer patients are very suitable for eating corn flour. Plant cellulose can accelerate the discharge of carcinogens and other poisons. Eating more corn can also inhibit the side effects of anticancer drugs on human body.

3. Lowering blood pressure and blood fat: Corn flour has a good effect of lowering blood fat and blood pressure, and rich calcium can lower blood pressure, promote cell division, lower serum cholesterol and prevent it from depositing on the blood vessel wall. Therefore, corn has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Central American Indians are not prone to high blood pressure because they mainly eat corn.

4. Increase memory and anti-aging: Mental workers may wish to eat more corn flour to stimulate brain cells, enhance people's brain power, memory and metabolism, and regulate the function of the nervous system. It can make skin soft and smooth, inhibit and delay the generation of wrinkles, and resist eye aging.

5. Improve your eyesight: Eating corn flour can also protect your eyesight. People who often use their eyes should eat more yellow corn to relieve macular degeneration and vision loss. Lutein and zeaxanthin can absorb harmful light entering the eyeball by virtue of their powerful antioxidant effect.

6. Promote gastrointestinal peristalsis: People with habitual constipation can eat more corn flour to prevent constipation, enteritis and intestinal cancer.

Corn and carrot pancake

Ingredients: 0.5 carrot, 2 tablespoons corn, egg 1 piece, appropriate amount of corn flour and salt.

Production method:

1. Wash carrots, cut them into small cubes, soak them in boiling water, drain the water, add a little salt, and marinate for about five minutes (this step is to soften carrots when eating, so as not to stand in the dough when frying).

2. Break up the eggs, beat them hard in a bowl until they foam, add appropriate amount of corn flour and a little salt, and stir them into a slightly thin batter.

3. Pour chopped carrots and corn kernels into the egg batter and stir well.

4. Heat the pan, pour a few drops of olive oil or peanut oil, turn the handle and let the oil spread evenly on the pan surface.

5. Slowly pour the stirred corn and carrot batter into the pot, turn the handle again, let the batter spread evenly, and fry on both sides with medium and small fire until cooked.

Above, we have introduced the therapeutic value of corn flour to you. Eating corn flour has many benefits. Protein in corn flour does not have the ability to form gluten elasticity, so its gas-holding performance is poor. Before making all kinds of fermented snacks, it needs to be mixed with flour. When we usually buy corn flour, we should grab a handful of corn flour with our hands and knead it repeatedly to let the flour slip. If the palm is covered with fine powder or light yellow or dark yellow, it means that it is mixed with pigment and cannot be bought.