As the saying goes: "Every day goji berry water, live to two hundred years old." ”
Xiao Zhang (pseudonym), after graduating from college, found a company internship, saw that many colleagues have the habit of soaking water with goji berries, and has always said that it is good for the body, so he also learned. But after less than a week of persistence, she inexplicably grew a lot of pimples on her face, accompanied by mouth ulcers.
After going to the hospital for treatment, Dr. Chen Ying, a Chinese medicine physician, after understanding the situation, judged that it might be a sudden allergy symptom caused by eating goji berries, and suggested that she stop taking it. Sure enough, Xiao Zhang's symptoms gradually improved after a few days.
Chinese medicine practitioners believe that goji berries do have a variety of effects such as nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving the eyes, etc., but it is not suitable for everyone, like Xiao Zhang, who has a yin deficiency constitution, and excessive consumption can easily lead to fire, acne, and long mouth sores.
When it comes to goji berries, Chinese know that eating is good for the body, but they don't know too much about its specific nutritional value. Today, Xiao Jiu will give you a talk.
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The famous goji berries, most people have eaten, it can not only be medicinal, but also directly as food, on the list of "medicine and food homology" issued by the State Food and Drug Administration. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" once recorded that "long-term service is strong and strong, light body is not old", which means that insisting on taking goji berries has the effect of strengthening muscles and bones.
However, many people have always been skeptical of this effect, and its mechanism of action is not clear, until the well-known authoritative journal "the FASEB Journal" published a study by the scientific research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, confirming that goji berries can "improve muscle endurance and enhance muscle function".
The study took a mouse experiment for 4 months, the researchers continuously injected C57 mice with goji berry extract, and finally found that compared with the mice administered and the control group, the weight did not change, but the volume of white fat became smaller, the volume of the tibia anterior muscle and gastrocnemius muscle increased significantly, and the exercise ability was greatly improved, and the average running distance increased by 40%.
The researchers said this consideration is related to goji berry extract, which enhances the muscle endurance of mice by increasing the proportion of type IIa oxidized muscle fibers and aerobic respiration. Research has demonstrated for the first time that goji berry extract has the wonderful effect of regulating skeletal muscle remodeling and improving muscle volume and tolerance.
Not only that, but its nutritional value is also very high, and this we have already confirmed.
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The most important reason why goji berries are so popular is their high nutritional value.
According to the data in the "Data Table of Basic Ingredients of Functional Food Raw Materials in China", every 100g of goji berries contains 0.35mg of vitamin B1, 0.42mg of vitamin B2, 4mg of niacin, 19.6mg of carotene, 10.1mg of monohydroxylute, 60.3 mg of monohydroxylute, 0.77g of betaine, 55.7g of goji polysaccharides and other nutrients.
Among them, β-carotene can be converted into vitamin A, which has a certain effect on the prevention of dry eye disease and echinoderma, while lutein can prevent cardiovascular diseases, cataracts, retinal macular degeneration and other diseases to a certain extent.
Here we have to emphasize to everyone that goji berry polysaccharides, is the most important nutrient in goji berries, has been a number of studies to confirm its beneficial biological activities to the human body, such as anti-inflammatory, anti-aging, antioxidant, liver protection and eye protection, immunomodulation, hypoglycemia, hypolipidemic, reproductive protection and so on.
Seeing that many people are eager to move, thinking of eating more goji berries quickly, maybe they can also treat some existing diseases.
If you think so, you're wrong.
Although goji berries belong to the "medicinal and food homologous" food and are rich in nutrients, there are not too many unique ingredients in it, and it is unrealistic to want to treat diseases by eating goji berries. To see a doctor, you still have to go to a regular hospital, find out the cause, and then treat the symptoms, so that you can restore your health faster and better.
Of course, people who like to eat goji berries can continue to eat, but learn the right way to avoid eating wrong and affecting health.
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1, do not eat too much
Whether it is healthy or not, eating anything should pay attention to the right amount, in general, healthy adults eat 50-60 goji berries a day is almost the same, for children, the amount of consumption needs to be halved. From the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine, excessive consumption of goji berries can lead to false fire; from the perspective of modern medicine, the sugar content of goji berries is high, and excessive consumption can affect blood sugar.
2, do not just drink water
Many people will use goji berries to soak water to drink, but please note that the real nutrition in the goji berries in the goji berries, not the water that comes out, because most of the nutrients are still left in the goji berries, if you only drink water and dump the goji berries, it will be a big loss.
At the same time, it is necessary to control the water temperature when soaking water, and the effect is best at 45 ~ 60 ° C, and does not destroy the activity of vitamins and other nutrients.
3, diabetics should eat less
The sugar content of goji berries is relatively high, about 19.3g/100g, so it is best for diabetics to eat less to avoid fluctuations in blood sugar.
Goji berries are a kind of food with high nutritional value and beneficial to human health, we can usually brew goji berry tea, or put a little in the soup, but we must pay attention to mastering the correct method, so that we can better "use" it.
Have you learned?
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Resources:
[1] An extract of Lycium barbarum mimics exercise to improve muscle endurance through increasing type IIa oxidative muscle fibers by activating ERR, FASEB J. 2020Sep;34(9):11460-11473.Epub 2020 Jul 30.
[2] Goji berries are preferred for liver nourishment in spring, but eating goji berries must remind you of these points. Food Science and Technology Network .2019-03-19
[3] What's wrong with the BBC: The nutritional value of goji berries is not as good as strawberries?.Fan Zhihong. 2018-10-21
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