We are not new to kelp. We all know that kelp can be used as a main course or as a side dish. Many people cook kelp together with ribs, which is very delicious and fresh. What is the nutritional value of kelp? What are the benefits of eating kelp? Let's get to know each other!
2. Compared with spinach and rape, kelp contains several to dozens of times more crude protein, sugar, calcium and iron except vitamin C.
3. Kelp is a kind of seaweed with high iodine content. In general, cultivated kelp contains 3% - 5% iodine, and most of them can reach 7% - 10%.
Benefits of eating kelp
1. Tumor suppression
Hot water extract has obvious cytotoxic effect on human KB cancer cells in vitro, and has obvious inhibitory effect on S180 tumor. Moreover, kelp is also rich in anti-cancer star selenium, which has anti-cancer effect.
2. Improve immunity
Kelp can improve the body's humoral immunity, promote the body's cellular immunity, and regulate the immunity of many foods, Lentinus edodes is one of them.
3, hypoglycemic
Kelp contains 60% fucopolysaccharide, which is an excellent food fiber. After diabetes patients eat it, it can delay the time of gastric emptying and food passing through the small intestine. Thus, even if the insulin secretion is reduced, the blood sugar content will not rise, so as to achieve the purpose of treating diabetes.
We now have a deep understanding of the nutritional value of kelp. In the past, kelp had some functions and effects that we didn't know. Most of the time, we would choose to eat some kelp to supplement our body's substances. What we didn't expect is that it has so many functions, and its nutritional value is even higher than we thought. Of course, we should eat some kelp, not blindly.