Eating curry boosts health
Fashion for so-called. Superfoods (superfoods) are gaining ground in Poland and around the world. As a result, previously little-known food products such as chlorella, green barley and spirulina have become available in almost every supermarket or drugstore.
But in addition to such „niche” innovations to the group of superfoods can confidently include many other already well-known and widely used product In humans it migrates in the skin, such as. Curry spice mix (added mainly nie to poultry, pork and mutton dishes, as well as vegetables, rice and sauce ).
What makes curry so good for health?
The answer to this question is not simple, because curry contains a whole range of valued zar in by nutritionist in as well as doctors component in the d kt rych are m.in. Turmeric, garlic, Roman cumin, cinnamon, chili and ginger.
But it is this first ingredient, from which hich, incidentally, gives curry its name, seems to be the biggest star in this noble company.
Turmeric is the powdered rhizome of a plant called long oyster, also known as Indian ostrich.
Its most valuable ingredient is curcumin (diferuloylmethane), which ra is a natural polyphenolic compound that exhibits numerous health-promoting properties.
– It is a compound with antioxidant activity, as well as anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and immunomodulating properties – enumerates prof. Iwona Wawer on the book titled. „Food chemistry”(Volume 2), published under ed. Zdzislaw E. Sikorski and Hanna Staroszczyk.
Unfortunately, there is also one downside. Curcumin is poorly absorbed from the digestive system. So to take advantage of its health-promoting properties, you need to consume curry as often as possible.
Due to this limitation, dietary supplements containing curcumin use large doses of curcumin – usually 500 mg per capsule (recommended intake of 1-2 g per day).
