Seafood is tasty and healthy food, it diversifies our diet and adds a piquant touch to the usual menu. Seaweed is the most famous and familiar product from childhood, but not many people love it. However, this is a very healthy dish, it has a lot of valuable properties, and Goodshapetips will tell you about them.
What is seaweed?
In total, more than thirty varieties of seaweed related to cabbage grow in different latitudes. Today they can be found in stores in any city in Russia. It can be canned food, Korean snacks with seaweed, salads, dried cabbage, and even powder from it. This unique product, after drying and processing, does not lose its beneficial properties, its powder can be added to dishes even for those who do not really like the natural taste of algae.
Although cabbage has a mild taste and aroma of the sea, it perfectly sets off various salads – with seafood, vegetables and spices. Best of all, sea kale is combined with carrots, mushrooms, eggplants, zucchini and meat; vinegar and oil dressings are used for it.
Kelp
These green-brown seaweeds have long been appreciated by cosmetologists and nutritionists.
Laminaria grows in many seas, including Russian ones, in the Far East. Laminaria is collected from the bottom of the sea in large “forks”: algae is wound on them according to the spaghetti principle – after all, the length of individual cabbage leaves reaches 20-30 meters. What are its undoubted advantages?
Firstly, there are a lot of vitamins in seaweed – there is almost the entire line of vitamins (eleven out of thirteen possible): these are B vitamins, a group of fat-soluble A, D and E. Laminaria grows in sea salt water, which means it absorbs useful sea minerals – sodium, chlorine and magnesium, a lot of potassium and calcium. But kelp is especially rich in iodine, which is so lacking in Europeans.
Secondly, it is a dietary product, the digestion of which takes more caloriesthan it contains: seaweed without seasonings and sauces per hundred grams of the product gives only 6 kcal, and with the addition of onions, spices and oil, they become just over twenty. Therefore, a diet with sea kale helps to lose extra pounds so well.
From the depths of centuries
The benefits of sea kale were not learned today – it has long been appreciated and eaten in large quantities in many countries.
Many coastal natives have used seaweed for centuries as an antipyretic and diaphoretic. In Ireland and India, kelp was used to treat tuberculosis. In ancient Chinese medicine, kelp was used in recovery from illness, during physical labor and mental stress.
The Chinese still use it to regulate their weight (although their entire food system is not high in calories). Modern medicine recommends using kelp for thyroid diseases caused by iodine deficiency, with exhaustion, lack of vitamins.
They say that if you suddenly want to taste seaweed, it means that your body is signaling for help, it lacks vitamins and iodine. Don’t deny him the pleasure!
Useful properties of kelp
In addition to vitamins and minerals, kelp contains unsaturated fatty acids that are so necessary for the body, due to which it effectively fights thrombus formation and atherosclerotic deposits in the walls of blood vessels.
This is facilitated by an increased concentration of vitamin C, which is more in kelp than in lemons and oranges. And there is much more iron in seaweed than in any land plant – it is very useful at the risk of anemia and anemia.
There are many useful amino acids in kelp, which is especially important for those who do not eat meat. It replenishes the supply of “bricks” for building body proteins. Laminaria is especially useful in old age, when metabolic processes are slowed down and there are not enough nutrients, they make themselves felt. heart diseases and vessels.
Laminaria contains a special substance – sterol, which has an active effect on cholesterol plaques and removes “bad” cholesterol from the body. That is why in Japan, where seaweed is part of the daily diet, people live longer. Seaweed promotes normalization menstrual cycle and reproductive function in women, potency in men.
Algae contains a lot of alginates – these are special substances that have neutralizing, anti-cancer and immunostimulating effects. Seaweed, due to its ability to swell and attract water, gives an excellent laxative and cleansing effect.
Contraindications
Despite the large list of useful properties, sea kale has a number of contraindications. Patients with thyroid problems associated with an excess of iodine or iodism (increased sensitivity to iodine) should consult a doctor and exclude kelp from their diet.
Due to its laxative effect, it should be used with caution in dried form. people with bowel disease, colitis and polyps. In such cases, it is better to abandon the salad with seaweed. You need to be more careful with kelp if you have allergies and do not give algae to children under 3 years old.
Where else is seaweed used?
In addition to eating, seaweed is used in pharmaceuticals and cosmetology. Algae extracts or pressed and dried kelp are added to various dietary supplements to strengthen immunity, rejuvenate and prevent diseases. Seaweed is added to wound healing regenerating and anti-burn creams, balms and ointments.
In cosmetology, based on seaweed, they make face masks, tonics and means for strengthening the roots of hair and nails. Made with seaweed peelings and wraps, scrubs and cellulite remedies.
Seaweed is a useful product. If its taste seems somewhat unusual to you, add 2-3 tablespoons of it to a regular vegetable salad: this will decorate the dish and enrich your body with valuable substances and vitamins.
Do you love seaweed?
