Benefits of Lychee

Lychee (picture : Google.com)

Benefits of Lychee Fruit For Health. Sweet lychee nutrient rich because it contains vitamin C and potassium levels are high. Substances present in the lychees can prevent and treat various diseases, such as coughs, ulcers, and hypertension.

Fruit lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn) comes from the province of Kwantung and Fukien in Southern China. In 1873 the plant was spread to Hawaii, then to Florida, USA in 1883. Kwantung and Fukien province in China known as the largest producer of lychee fruit, followed by India and other countries.

Lychee is a subtropical plant that belongs to the family Sapindaceae or soapberry. Known by several terms, such as Lichi, Litchi, lichee, laichi, leechee, or lychee. Lychee fruit has a high price, both in fresh and in processed form

The content of Lychee

Every 100 grams of fruit lychees, there are 72 mg of vitamin C. This vitamin is a vitamin that contained most lychee fruit. Only by eating the fruit of nine lychees, daily requirement of vitamin C will be fulfilled adults. The fruit is also low in fat so that the good is consumed by people who are dieting or just maintain your weight.

Sucrose and glucose content of lychee fruit is also very abundant. Eating lychee fruit in the evening can increase energy reserves for the next day. Sugar content in them varies greatly, depending on the varieties of lychees. In addition, lychees are a source of dietary fiber (dietary fiber) are tolerable. Therefore, every 100 grams of fruit lychees, which owned about 1.3 fiber grams.

Helps Prevent Cancer Growth and

During this time, considered the best red wine for heart health. However, based on research in France, found that lychee has a polyphenol content of 15% higher than red wine. Polyphenols are useful to prevent damage to body tissue that can cause cancer. The findings are published in the Journal of Nutrition. "Polyphenols act as a bulwark that protects the body against disease and cell damage," says David Grotto, author of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life!

In addition, in the lychee fruit, there are calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium. These three minerals are very important for children in its infancy. This mineral is also needed by adults to inhibit the rate of osteoporosis.

Helps to Reduce Hypertension

Potassium contained in the lychee fruit is very high. Potassium is very useful to improve the regularity of the heartbeat. Potassium, another name for potassium, also great for controlling the fluid balance in the body tissue. In addition, the fruit can also be consumed to lower high blood pressure or hypertension.

Solid Sugar

The water content in lychee fruit is quite high, around 77-83 percent, the energy levels of about 66 kcal per 100 grams. Most of the energy comes from carbohydrates (sugars), amounting to 59.5 kcal, the rest of the protein and fat in a row by 2.8 kcal and 3.7 kcal. Carbohydrate content in lychee fruit is quite high (16.53 g per 100 g of fruit), which consists of various types of sugars.

Lychees contain sucrose and glucose is abundant, so that eating lychee fruit in the evening can increase energy reserves for the next day. Sugar content contained on lychees varies depending on the variety, but generally reaches 10-13 percent. Lychee is also a source of dietary fiber (dietary fiber) is pretty, which is about 1.3 g per 100 g of fat in meat buah.Kadar lychee fruit is very low, so it is good to be consumed by all age groups, including those who are dieting to maintain or lose weight. Therefore, there is no limit how many lychees that should be consumed per day.

Vitamin C and Potassium

Vitamins are most prominent on the lychee fruit is vitamin C with levels of 71.5 mg per 100 grams of meat. With 100 grams of fruit lychees, was able to meet more than 100 percent of vitamin C a day.

Vitamin C is a very useful natural antioxidants to fight free radical attack, the cause of premature aging, cancer and other diseases. Based on these beliefs, today's vitamin C added to many processed food products.

Minerals are prominent on lychee fruit is 171 mg potassium, phosphorus 31 mg, 10 mg magnesium, and calcium 5 mg. Although the low levels, lychees also contains iron, zinc, copper, sodium, selenium, and other minerals.

Calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium is a mineral essential to the triad of bone formation and skeletal normal, so it is required of children who are growing and also by adults to inhibit the rate of osteoporosis.

Copper is a mineral antioxidant. This mineral deficiency can disrupt the body's normal mechanisms for eliminating the presence of free radicals are always formed in the body.

Mineral copper (Cu) can form a complex with Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant enzyme systems (SOD), which plays a role in neutralizing superoxide radicals.

It is very interesting from the mineral composition of lychees is the ratio between potassium (K) and sodium (Na) is very high at 171:1. This is very beneficial for processed foods that we consume daily are generally contains high Na, but very low K. This is exactly what led to the increasing number of hypertensive patients in Indonesia.

Potassium (also known as potassium) very important role in improving the regularity of heart rate, activating muscle contractions, regulate the delivery of other nutrients to body cells, control fluid balance in the body tissue, as well as lowering high blood pressure (hypertension). Thus, if the unfortunate food processing often lead to low ratio of potassium to sodium, resulting from the use table salt and MSG (flavor enhancer) is excessive.

High consumption of food is expected to offset the high K Na due to consumption of food containing MSG and salt. The ratio of Na and K in the daily diet that is recommended is 1:1. Complete nutritional composition of lychee fruit can be seen in Table 1.

Acid levels in lychee fruit reaches .20 to .64 percent. The most dominant type of acid is malic acid which reached 80 percent, while the remaining 20 percent consisting of citric acid, succinic, levulinat, phosphate, glutaric, malonic, and lactic acid. The combination of sugar and various types of acids that cause the lychee has a sweet flavor and refreshing.

Treat Cough and Stomach Injury

In the history of medicine, lychee fruit is believed to cure cough and have a beneficial effect to cure gastralgia, tumors and enlarged glands.

It has been reported that administration of fresh lychees in Florida, can heal the wounds of the stomach, so patients who previously disturbed can again enjoy the delicious food. The exact cause of this scientific unknown.

As well as longan fruit and apricots, lychees are also classified into pieces that are hot (as most mature in the cold), so it is suitable to be consumed group of people that are withered cold.

Vital energy and spleen they are mostly weak, low metabolism Basically, her body produces less energy, legs and hands, too cold in the hot days though. Their faces whiter than ordinary people, and rarely feel thirsty, and do not like to eat cold food. Fruits that are very beneficial to their heat.

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