Pepper is rich in vitamin C

In China even around the world, the uses of chili is very extensive, in China's Sichuan, Hunan and Thailand, Mexico, etc. are like to eat spicy food and pepper has already become an integral part in people's daily lives. Pepper has many alternate name, is divided into the spicy and sweet, belonging to one of the Solanaceae plants. The bell pepper is with large shape, the color is green, thick-skinned, used primarily as vegetable. Chili is relatively small, the color is red, thin, can be used as seasoning food.

The chili is rich in nutrients, including vitamin C content is very high, known as the “king of the vitamin C in vegetables”, the content is many times than the general vegetables. The original vitamin A content is also high, and other vegetables could not comparable to it. In addition, peppers are rich in capsaicin, capsanthin, dihydro capsaicin, these substances can stimulate the salivary glands and gastric glands secrete saliva, gastric juice, accelerate food digestion, stimulate the heart to speed up the beat, accelerate blood circulation, prevention of rheumatic arthritis, rheumatic fever, neuralgia. The capsaicin inhibited fat, preventing obesity, prevention of thrombosis, resistance to free radicals. The capsanthin can cause gastric motility, multiple intake can greatly improve the ability of human body anti-aging. Peppers as a food, it is also a drug, has many health effects on human body. The ancient Mayans mixed peppers drugs to treat infected wounds, gastrointestinal disease and other ailments. Modern medical research show that peppers can be used as pharmaceutical raw materials, for joint pain, chest and abdomen pain, itchy skin and many other ailments have a significant effect.

Pepper with heat, can dispel cold, improve eyesight and insecticidal, there are records since ancient times. It can quickly ease chest cold pain, diarrhea, and reduce heart disease and coronary artery disease incidence. Eat chili with good mitigation to someone with abdominal pain, like to eat cold and have stomach problems after eating. Vitamin C, vitamin P with eternal youth role in the human body is a very good antioxidant and can protect the cardiovascular cells, in chili, vitamin C and vitamin P content is the most.

However, pepper’s irritant is too strong, not everyone is fit for consumption, those people whose gastrointestinal function is weak should not eat too much chili. But it can not be completely not eat spicy, trace amounts of chili can protect the gastric mucosa, and is good for the stomach. However, eating a lot of chili is easy to hurt stomach, chili will destroy the nerve endings feeling, so that the stomach is vulnerable. About the dietary intake of chili, the medical profession thought that if the pepper intake is appropriate, it will be good for the stomach, but if taken in excess it will hurt the stomach.

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