fig is a kind of flowering plant, which mainly grows in tropical and temperate environment. In the Bible, there are also stories about fig and Jesus. It mainly has the functions of strengthening the stomach, clearing the intestines, reducing swelling and detoxifying. Let's learn about it
1. The lipase and hydrolase contained in Ficus carica can reduce blood lipid and decompose blood lipid, reduce the deposition of fat in blood vessels, and then play a role in lowering blood pressure and preventing coronary heart disease.
2. Fig contains malic acid, citric acid, lipase, protease, hydrolase, etc., which can help human digestion of food, promote appetite, and because it contains a variety of lipids, it has the effect of moistening intestines and defecating.
3. The milk of immature fruit contains psoralen, bergamot lactone and other active components. Benzaldehyde, an aromatic substance, can be extracted from the juice of mature fruit.
4. Fig has the function of anti-inflammatory and detumescence, which is beneficial to pharynx and detumescence.
Both of them have the functions of cancer prevention and anti-cancer, enhancing the body's resistance to disease, preventing the occurrence of many kinds of cancer, delaying the development of transplanted gonadal cancer and lymphosarcoma, promoting their degeneration, and not toxic to normal cells.
Pregnant women should often eat the right amount of FIGS. Because figs not only have rich nutrients, but also can treat hemorrhoids and milk.
Can diabetic eat figs
With the material life getting better and better, the patients with diabetes are becoming younger and younger. We know that fig is a sweet fruit, but does it mean that the sugar content of fig is high? Fig has many health care effects, does it have the effect of regulating diabetes? Can diabetes eat fig?
Although the lipase and hydrolase contained in figs can reduce blood lipid and decompose blood lipid, reduce the deposition of fat in blood vessels, and play a role in lowering blood pressure and preventing coronary heart disease; for diabetes patients with hypertension, they can eat less, but the amount should not be too much. Because fig also contains a lot of glucose and fructose, with sugar content as high as 20%, which belongs to high index food, we should try to eat less, otherwise it may increase blood sugar.
Diabetic patients should choose fruits with small sugar index, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, prunes, watermelons, cantaloupes, cherries, pitaya, oranges, pears, pineapples, etc., which should be eaten in proper amount, not too much. But pomegranate, banana, jujube, red fruit and other diabetic patients should not eat.
Diabetic patients should pay attention to vitamin B and vitamin C supplementation, which is conducive to slowing down the process of diabetic complications, reducing diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy. So we should eat foods rich in vitamin B and vitamin C, such as fish, milk, cabbage, beans, vegetables, cabbage, etc.