Leaf celery - delicious spicy greens, which can be used for decorating dishes, and as a useful supplement to almost any everyday food. And although recently this plant is gaining popularity among consumers, few know exactly what a leaf celery is useful for. Although for nutritionists, its nutritional value is clear.
Benefits and harm of leaf celery
Celery can be of different types: root, stem, leaf. But only the last variety can keep all the benefits after heat treatment. A useful property of leaf celery is its "negative caloric value". That is, the processing of fiber and other substances found in these leaves, the body spends more calories than it receives.
On the question, what is still useful leaf celery for the body, doctors, nutritionists answer like this: it is just a storehouse of various biologically active substances. Including such as asparagine, tyrosine, carotene, an almost complete set of other vitamins , various micro- and macro elements. Due to what it promotes the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the recovery of the nervous system after stress, the optimization of metabolism, as well as it is often used as a safe aphrodisiac.
Harmful leaf celery can be for pregnant women, people with diseases of the urinary system and the gastrointestinal tract, diseases of the thyroid gland.
Leaf celery from pressure
Among the useful properties of leaf celery is its ability to rapidly reduce blood pressure, due to the presence of calcium and magnesium in its composition. To achieve a lasting effect, it is recommended to eat spices for food every day, but in moderation. It is possible in a fresh form, it is possible in structure of easy vegetable soups and a stew.