Black beans, in the eyes of Traditional Chinese medicine, is the most blood-replenishing effect of the "black five types of food" list, is also one of the most office women common snacks, there are studies to prove that black bean peel extract can improve the symptoms of anemia.
Black beans, because iron can replenish blood?
If the human body has symptoms of anemia, the first thing is to supplement iron.
The black bean contains a small amount of iron, and the iron content of each 100 grams of cooked black beans is 7.2mg.
However, eating black beans can achieve the effect of iron supplementation is not derived from black beans themselves, but from bean skin, a black bean extract extracted from bean skin, which can improve the body's absorption of iron by inhibiting iron condimentin, thereby improving anemia.
The so-called black bean extract is based on the seed coat of the black bean Glycine max (L.) Merri, which is extracted delicately by a special process, and its main ingredient is cornflower-3-glucoside.
Black bean anthocyanin is a powerful antioxidant extracted from the black bean skin, and the natural pigment extracted from the black bean skin is called "black bean red pigment", referred to as "black bean red", also known as black bean anthocyanin.
Therefore, when the human body has symptoms of anemia, you can eat some black beans to supplement iron, but the effect is very limited.
Black bean skin, how to improve anemia?
If you want to know how black bean skin improves anemia, you can first understand the magical "hepcidin" in the human body.
Hepcidin is a cysteine-rich antibacterial polypeptide synthesized and secreted by the liver, which can be expressed in large quantities during immunity and participate in the immune response, and plays a negative regulatory role in the regulation of iron balance in the body.
Simply put, hepcidin is equivalent to the "iron housekeeper" in the liver, it will monitor the body's iron in real time, once the amount of iron is found to be excessive, it will immediately prevent the pump ferritin from working, thereby balancing the amount of iron in the body.
Once the "iron housekeeper" is too dedicated and abnormally active, the pump ferritin is turned off too much, the iron content in the blood will drop rapidly, and the synthesis of red blood cells will be blocked, resulting in anemia.
At this time, the black bean skin extract shines, which can quiet down the abnormally active hepcidin, promote the mobilization of iron in the small intestine, liver and spleen, significantly increase the body's serum iron level, and promote the body's hematopoietic function.
Therefore, the hero of improving anemia is black bean skin, just as eating grapes does not spit grape skin, and the same black beans do not spit bean skin!
Black beans, how to eat iron supplements most effectively?
Although eating black beans to supplement iron is effective, "how to eat black beans" is also exquisite.
As scientific research results show, black bean skin extract can improve the symptoms of anemia, eat black beans with skin to eat.
In the "National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicine": Black beans are used in seed coats to nourish blood and dispel wind.
It is widely used in the clinical treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of various types of yin deficiency night sweats, blood cold, anemia, etc., emphasizing that the medicinal value of black bean skin is higher, and the records are consistent.
In addition, when eating black beans, you must cook them thoroughly to eat, otherwise it is easy to produce a substance called antitrypsin, which will affect the body's absorption of protein, and diarrhea may occur when eating.
All in all, compared with the absorption and utilization rate of iron in plant foods, animal food iron is heme iron, and the human body can directly "take" and absorb it, thereby creating its own hemoglobin.
If anemia has really been achieved, doctors generally recommend that patients directly supplement iron, or recommend eating red animal offal or red meat, while matching vitamin C to improve the effect.
Although black beans are also a source of iron, they are not the main measure to solve the problem of anemia.
Therefore, if the clinical standard of anemia is met, it is recommended to seek medical treatment in time, symptomatic treatment, and then comprehensively adjust the diet, and it is impossible to easily solve it by eating a few black beans alone.