In the era and region of vegetable oil scarcity, lard was an essential ingredient for every household, but later, the health hazards of lard gradually attracted people's attention.
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Is eating lard a lot healthy or harmful?
Perhaps in the eyes of some health care people, lard is delicious to eat, in fact, it is "harmful and no benefit" to the human body, but in fact, lard is really nutritious.
The reason why lard tastes delicious is because lard contains a small amount of special protein and glycerol decomposition products, coupled with the high content of saturated fatty acids in lard, which can make oil, starch and cellulose blend into one, making the dish more crisp and lubricated.
Therefore, many people will feel "addicted" after tasting the dishes fried in lard.
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"One spoonful of lard equals five pairs of medicines"
From a nutritional point of view, lard can provide essential calories, fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins, constitute the body tissue, as a protective component of the body, play a role in regulating body temperature, maintaining moisture and so on.
In addition, Chinese medicine believes that lard can nourish the spleen and stomach, promote digestion, lard is slippery, into the large intestine meridian, can moisten the intestine laxative.
In addition, the fat and fatty acid content in lard is relatively high, and eating more lard can help the skin improve the phenomenon of dryness and cracking.
Regular eating lard can enhance appetite, because lard has a special flavor, can promote the body's appetite, lard contains caribrin, has a protective effect on the human body's vision. The oleic acid contained in lard helps reduce the risk of depression.
Lard also contains vitamin D, which can help the body absorb calcium and is beneficial to the body's bone health.
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Disadvantages of eating lard
Regularly eating lard will increase the concentration of blood cholesterol, cause atherosclerosis, lead to and aggravate cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and peripheral vascular diseases, excessive consumption is not conducive to digestion, aggravate obesity and so on.
Eating lard will increase the concentration of blood cholesterol, lipid deposition in the vascular endothelium, gradually causing atherosclerosis, resulting in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and peripheral vascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, myocardial infarction, stroke, etc., so patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes are not recommended to eat more lard.
In summary, lard is indeed relatively healthy from the perspective of nutritional value, and it is also possible to use it as a substitute for daily oil.
But this does not mean that lard is the so-called health care products, even equal to five pairs of drugs, and lard health, there is no scientific basis, lard to eat too much, will still increase a series of cardiovascular disease risk, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.
In short, lard can be eaten, but try to eat as little as possible.
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Tips
Usually when using oil to cook, you can combine a variety of edible oil alternately eat, such as eating soybean oil today, eating lard tomorrow, eating olive oil the day after tomorrow, don't eat a single oil every day because you like a certain kind of oil, frequently eat an oil, so that you can't get enough nutrition, eat a variety of cooking oil, you can supplement the various nutrients needed by the body, good for the body.