All of us know that vegetables — one of the main components of a full diet of the healthy person. In our today's article we will discuss a paprika subject: what vegetable from where it to us got is and than it is useful to the person.
This vegetable is one of the most widespread and known types of siliculose pepper in the world. Under natural conditions can grow in moderate, tropical and subtropical climatic zones of our planet. The historical homeland of this vegetable is South America, on this continent even it is possible to find wildly growing plant presently. Paprika is one-year vegetable which has a massive pentahedral or tetrahedral stalk. On these stalks there are wide green leaves of a lantsetoobrazny or ovoid form. On open space about 1.3 meters in height can grow.
Blossoming of a plant begins in the summer and at this time pepper blossoms small white kolesovidny flowers. After blossoming the plant yields fruits. Fruits of this pepper are hollow berries of red, yellow or green colors that in a form have similarity with the tetrahedral or trihedral pyramid blunted on the end. Walls the fruit thick, and inside has a stock of flat seeds of white or light yellow color.
Important! On whole paprika there is always a green fruit stem on which quality it is possible to judge a fruit.
Concerning power value, in the raw paprika contains 28.56 kcal on 100 g of a product. On the same 100 g, only already stewed vegetable, 29 kcal, boiled — 27.8 kcal and marinated — 31.4 kcal are necessary.
Concerning chemical components, the fruit of this plant consists from:
- proteins — 0.8 g;
- fats — 0.3 g;
- carbohydrates — 6.6 g;
- celluloses — 0.96 g;
- waters — 91.5 g;
- ashes — 0.6 g;
- sugars — 3.5 g.
- And (a retinolovy equivalent) — 40.36 mkg;
- B9 (folic acid) — 52.6 mkg;
- B6 (pyridoxine) — 0.5 mg;
- B5 (pantothenate) — 0.2 mg;
- B4 (is well-cared) — 7.6 mg;
- B2 (Riboflavinum) — 0.054 mg;
- B1 (thiamine) — 0.078 mg;
- With (ascorbic acid) — 92.8 mg;
- E (a tokoferolovy equivalent) — 9.4 mg;
- To (fillokhinon) — 9.86 mkg;
- RR (niatsinovy equivalent) — 1.08 mg.
Concerning minerals and macrocells, they are also present at structure of this vegetable.
- sodium — 0.92 mg;
- phosphorus — 28.6 mg;
- calcium — 11.7 mg;
- magnesium — 15.6 mg;
- potassium — 201.6 mg.
- selenium — 0.26 mkg;
- manganese — 0.203 mg;
- copper — 114 mkg;
- zinc — 2.8 mg;
- iron — 0.45 mg.
- This product has many useful properties which we will consider below.
- Thanks to availability of vitamins of group B, nervous system of the person who regularly eats paprika will not fail that will affect quiet mood of the person and his sound sleep.
- This vegetable is capable to strengthen considerably immunity of the person, in it there is a large amount of ascorbic acid.
- This product and for those couples which are going to give birth to the child and by preparation for conception is recommended. Obstetricians-gynecologists recommend it as thanks to a rich complex of vitamins and minerals, this vegetable prevents pathologies of the central nervous system of a fruit and also strengthens the cardiovascular system of both mother, and future child.
- To the people having diabetes, nutritionists insistently advise to include this product in the menu at least twice a week as this vegetable is capable to maintain concentration of sugar in blood normal.
- Thanks to availability of potassium, magnesium and iron, inclusion of vegetable in the diet will help to avoid anemia as these elements participate in synthesis of hemoglobin of human blood.
Whether you know? Thanks to the structure, paprika helps people to reduce intensity of a pathological hair loss significantly.
- Availability of vitamins A and E as a part of this vegetable help at treatment and prevention of dermatological problems at the person.
Application of this vegetable concerns, generally two spheres of our life: food and cosmetic. We will also talk about this its application.
For maintenance of beauty generally use various masks on the basis of pepper or natural cosmetics with its contents. Appearing on human skin, this vegetable is capable to make the following actions:
- to improve blood circulation in skin vessels;
- to accelerate metabolism in cages terms;
- to treat acne rashes;
- to help to get rid quicker of peelings.
Masks from castor oil, seeds of fennel, propolis, a black-fruited mountain ash, fermented baked milk, spinach, pumpkin will help to improve a condition of face skin.
Here one of recipes of a face pack with paprika: Take one yellow pepper, 15 g of gelatin and 15 drops of grape oil. Squeeze out juice of fresh vegetable, and soak gelatin in warm water or tea. Connect the dissolved gelatin, juice and oil in a vessel and carefully stir contents. Before drawing a mask plentifully grease eyebrows and the line of growth of hair with fat cream that the mask did not stick to hair. Then take a flat wide brush and put it a mask on a face, wait 10 minutes and put the second layer. Half an hour later remove a film into which the mask turned from the last drawing, wash and apply day or night cream.
Important! Before use of a mask make sure that you have no allergy to paprika.
In preparation of dishes paprika is used actually in all types: it can be eaten crude in salads or slices to main courses, it is possible to use when cooking soup, at suppression, when frying, roasting and also to use the squeezed-out juice. It is very well combined with starchy vegetables, cabbage, tomatoes, onions, greens, olives, olives, cucumbers, mushrooms, salty cheese, garlic, meat, fish. Now we will give to you one example of the recipe with use of paprika:
To prepare this dish, it will be necessary for you: 300 g of not polished rice boiled in salty water, 3 garlic gloves, 1 bulb, a ginger root piece, two red paprikas, olive oil, 200 g of cherry, 100 g of leek, 4 tablespoons of soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper to your taste.
Olive oil, ginger and leek successfully apply also in traditional medicine.
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Small cut a bulb and garlic, grate a ginger root (about 3 cm). Take the cut components and fry on olive oil until onions become soft. Add the cut pepper to a frying pan and reduce fire, fry on it components within 5 minutes. Then lay out the boiled rice, the cut cherry tomatoes and leek in a frying pan. Mix the making dishes and remove a frying pan from fire. Fill a dish with soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper to taste.
There are only three most widespread grades of paprika - it is red, yellow and green types. Each look has the distinctive features, we also will talk about them.
From yellow and green versions differs in what to taste has average intensity of sharpness, but not ripened often it is used in konservation. Fruits most often average or big, always with dense walls. The most widespread grades of this type of paprika is: Agapovsky grade, Admiral of F1 hybrid, Chord, Antiquary.
Unlike red pepper, yellow fruits have not such pronounced taste and have fleshier pulp. Also in yellow fruits rather there are more phosphorus and potassium. The most widespread grades it a look is considered: Yellow bull, Yellow bouquet, Gold small lamp and Yellow bell.
Unlike red and yellow types to contain in green paprika phytosterols which help a human body to get rid of excess of harmful cholesterol in blood. Green pepper is not an independent look, but not ripened red or yellow pepper therefore the grade does not matter when gathering green pepper, the most important is to collect fruits before they were painted in rich color.
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Of course, as well as a number of contraindications for some people has many products, paprika. It is not recommended to use this vegetable to people with the following problems:
- Presence of allergies. Pepper is rather strong allergen therefore it is worth being very attentive at its use.
- Abuse of paprika can cause a meteorizm and an abdominal distension.
- It is not recommended to the use to people with the increased arterial blood pressure, coronary heart disease and arrhythmia.
- People with gastritis which developed with the increased acidity as pepper irritates a mucous membrane of a stomach.
- Also people at whom hemorrhoids, epilepsy, diseases of a liver and kidneys are observed should not include this vegetable in the diet.
Whether you know? Many people associate the name of chili pepper with the country of Chile, but such comparison is not right. In translation from Indian language nuatl the word chilli, means red.
Of course, it is necessary to know how it is correct to choose a good fruit. There are several simple rules which will help you not to be mistaken:
- The thin skin of a fruit has to be elastic, without wrinkles and spots.
- Color of a fruit has to be uniform and bright.
- The fruit stem on the end of a fruit has to be juicy and green, the withered fruit stem demonstrates that vegetable was incorrectly stored.
- On a surface of a fruit there should not be a raid.
So, our article came to an end. We hope that you could gather for yourself new useful information concerning paprika and its value in a food allowance of the person.