Delicious artichoke. Useful properties are unique.

In Western cooking, artichoke has become popular for a long time , its useful properties make it possible to use it not only in preparing the most varied dishes, but also curing many diseases. It is a natural storehouse of the most useful nutrients and other components for our body.

It contains a huge amount of carotene and mineral salts. Specialists have long studied this beautiful, possessing a luxurious green with a blue-violet tint vegetable called artichoke, the useful properties of which can successfully use it in diet and children's nutrition. Immensely high and its protein potential. There are many salts of potassium and sodium, which are characterized by alkaline properties, as well as magnesium salts, the combination of which has a beneficial effect on the growing children's body. They contribute to the proper formation of the skeleton, strengthen the heart muscle and improve the functional capabilities of the brain. The positive effect of these substances on the stomach, especially susceptible to increased acidity, is also proved. It is now clear that our attention, like no other vegetables, deserves artichokes.

The benefits of these unusual vegetables, seemingly reminiscent of an unblown flower, are unusually high. This is the complete absence of cholesterol and saturated fatty acids, a high content of vitamin C, magnesium, folic acid and fiber. For more than five thousand years, people have been growing an artichoke whose useful properties have been appreciated even in Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Basically, it was used for food that is meaty and somewhat reminiscent of the taste of the walnut flower.

And in our modern world, when the natural and healthy food has become especially valuable, many countries pay tribute to the artichokes. Its benefits are known in our country since the reign of Peter, who brought this amazing vegetable to Russia from Europe. For a long time it was eaten only by well-off citizens, but now artichoke became absolutely accessible to the entire population for a useful and unusually tasty vegetable.

Its useful properties are unusually wide. Due to its low calorie content, this ancient delicacy is used in diets, and its diverse composition fills the body with all the substances necessary for it. The lower part of it contains a valuable substance - cinarine, which must be consumed by people with such a formidable disease as atherosclerosis. Suffering from obesity and metabolic disorders, it is simply necessary to consume daily the juice or broth of this vegetable. It promotes rapid normalization of lipid metabolism, and also in conjunction with cynarine produces a strong choleretic effect, which most beneficially affects the work of the liver and bile ducts.

This unique vegetable is considered a delicacy. For cooking, the fleshy part of the flower is used. And there are these dishes you need not only aristocrats or people with a refined taste, but also to those who really care about their health. You can eat it in fried, baked, boiled and even fresh, and in all these cases, the medicinal properties of artichoke are quite high.

The specialists carried out a lot of research, as a result of which it was found out that this vegetable has diuretic, antitoxic, choleretic and hepatoprotective properties. And its composition, rich in a whole set of vitamins of group B, C, acids, salts and other biologically active substances, and also inulin, makes it especially useful for diabetics. Doctors recommend using it daily for cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, biliary duct disc disease and cholecystitis.

In addition, the therapeutic properties of artichoke contribute to the normalization of metabolism, protection from exposure to toxins and the removal of harmful substances from the body. It is proved that his daily intake contributes to a rapid reduction in cholesterol, protection against all kinds of poisoning, and most importantly, it is recommended even in pregnancy, which indicates the high healing properties of artichoke and the complete absence of contraindications.