What are the disadvantages of eating too many mints?
1, stimulate the oral mucosa, often eat a lot of green mints will stimulate the oral mucosa, and even cause oral skin redness, ulceration, erosion, lead to a series of oral diseases, and even lead to oral precancerous lesions.
2, bacterial invasion, although mint has anti-inflammatory effect on respiratory diseases, it can dilate skin capillaries and increase heat dissipation, but at the same time it will also stimulate oral mucosa, leading to thickening of keratinized layer of oral mucosa, invasion of inflammatory bacteria, and damage to oral mucosa.
3, causing obesity, mints are generally high in calories. Studies have shown that 100 grams of mints has as many as 400 calories, accounting for a quarter of the energy needed by the human body every day. It is a high-calorie food, and dieters should especially avoid eating it.
4, causing high blood sugar, mints are also sugar, the sugar content is not very low, eating too much is the increase of blood glucose level, leading to a sudden increase in blood sugar, causing high blood sugar.
What does mints do?
1, mint has anti-inflammatory effect, and 8 kinds of catechuic acids contained in mint are effective anti-inflammatory agents, which can inhibit 3a- hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and have weak autoinflammation. The blue sesame oil hydrocarbon contained in mint has anti-inflammatory effect on scalded rabbit ears.
2. Peppermint also has antipyretic effect. Peppermint can excite the central nervous system, make the surrounding capillaries expand and dissipate heat, promote sweat secretion of sweat glands and lower body temperature.
3, mint also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and has a therapeutic effect on patients with gastric ulcer. At the same time, it is beneficial to the liver and protects the liver.
4. Peppermint also has the function of increasing mucus secretion in respiratory tract, which can remove mucus attached to mucous membrane, reduce foam sputum and increase effective ventilation of respiratory tract.