The old saying, good medicine tastes bitter but beneficial to patients. It is also same with food. Better when you eat unconsciously pick to open the "unpalatable" food, in fact, the original is the most dependent.
If those foods could talk, it is estimated are singing a song "I'm ugly, but I am very gentle."
Fat astringent foods
Immature persimmon, purple grape skins, which are very heavy astringency of food. Their astringency is caused by the tannins of food, physic acid and oxalate. These substances are powerful antioxidants, useful to prevent diabetes and hyperlipidemia.
Moreover, during the same kind of fruit, hair astringent of higher nutritional is valuable, for example, a small bitter taste applies better than large and sweet Fuji apple.
Rough food
Bundle of coarse grains such as the mouth, difficulty chewing celery and cabbage to help sub-par, it is because these foods are rich in insoluble dietary fiber. Is that these dietary fiber, can help people to prevent constipation, prevent colon cancer, favorable metal ion discharge, to help the body detox and weight loss. When people eat the high-fat dishes, rice pudding and other sweets so that blood sugar quickly, animal offal, egg yolk, high-cholesterol food, it is best moments to effectiveness the rough food methods.
Bitter foods
Lemon peel and grapefruit peel of Naringin, tea polyphenols in red wine and the polyphenols in chocolate are which can be changed to bitter foods. But they are also can help prevent cancer and heart disease.
"Raiding" of food
Such as radish, garlic, onion and so on. These foods taste very red, and even finished there will be smell. The reason is that they contain sulfur glycoside material and allyl disulfide, these substances are helpful in the prevention of cancer. For example garlic is a person's "health guardian." A large number of epidemiological surveys, garlic, garlic-producing areas and long-term consumption of the population, their cancer rates were significantly lower.
"Stinky" food
Such as durian smell strong, that describe it as "stink to high heaven," is not an exaggeration. However, in Thailand, because of its high nutritional value, are often used as a patient, post-partum women, nourishing the body tonic. Durian nature of heat, which could stimulate blood cold-dispelling, alleviate dysmenorrhea, especially for women affected by dysmenorrhea troubled consumption; It can also improve the symptoms of abdominal cold, can promote increased body temperature, is ideal for those cold physical tonic.
However, the durian though lots of other good, but not one to eat too much, otherwise easily lead to the body dry and hot, but also because of stomach can not be completely absorbed give rise to "get angry."
Spicy food
The spicy foods are generally managed by capsaicin or volatile sulfides offer. With the analgesic effect of capsaicin, but also improve the metabolism, play a Fat Burn, slimming effect.
Spicy mustard strong, with a strong stimulating effect, can be adjusted female endocrine, enhanced sexual function, but also stimulate the blood vessels to expand, enhance facial blood to run, so that women face even more rosy. The main component of mustard is a pungent nose isothiocyanate. This ingredient can not only prevent tooth decay, but also to prevent cancer, prevent blood vessel plaque deposition, adjuvant treatment of asthma also have certain effects. In addition, the mustard still prevent high blood lipids, hypertension, coronary heart disease, lower blood viscosity and other effects.
Sour foods
Hawthorn, sour pickles, etc. is citric acid, malic acid and other organic acids caused by these natural acids can promote the absorption of minerals such as iron.
The same species of fruit, sour taste in general contain higher concentrations of vitamin C, vitamin is also more stable and easier to save.