Tangerines are favourite New Year's "sunflower seeds" for many people, the majority of whom considers them exclusively useful product. But whether so it actually? Let's try to understand it.
About structure
Probably, it is no secret, that tangerines are the real well of vitamins, and it in many respects explains their positive influence on a human body. In this case, It is necessary to distinguish the following from the most useful:
- Vitamin A — is responsible for restoration of visual function and increases visual acuity by strengthening of an optic nerve. Perfectly stimulates blood circulation (for positive effect enough to eat 1–2 features of fruits a day).
- Vitamin E — accelerates regenerative processes in an organism, promotes preservation of youth for many years.
- Vitamin K — prevents development of atherosclerosis and accelerates healing of wounds.
- Ascorbic acid — raises an organism tone, improves quality of joints and fabrics.
Important! Vitamins C, A and E belong to antioxidants, and it means that their action is directed to prevention of education of the free radicals capable to do much harm to health. These vitamins contain also in plant seeds.
As for nutrition value of the tangerines loved by all, it will depend on their grade and conditions of growth. In average value it is the share of 100 g of well ripened pulp: 7.5 g of carbohydrates, 0.8 g of proteins, 0.2 g of fats, 1.9 g of food fibers, 1.1 g of organic acids, 7.5 g of saccharides, 0.5 g of cindery connections, 0.1 g of iron and also mineral salts, flavonoids, phytoncides, pectins. Caloric content — only 33 kcal on 100 g.
It is remarkable that in a case with this type of fruit not only pulp (together with stones), but also the peel of fruits containing essential oils of sugar, organic acids and the same rich complex of vitamins is very useful, and it means that the advantage of its application will be at all not less.
As for stones, their main value consists in prevention of development of cancer states and normalization of pressure, the mentioned potassium, sodium, vitamins C are responsible for it and V. Takzhe you should not forget also about a role of folic acid, potassium and antioxidants in normalization of work of nervous system that he also does stones of tangerines by very valuable components of fruits.
About advantage
All citrus is characterized by any given advantage for a human body, but as for tangerines, they are especially important in winter time as they help a human body to beat off the attack of viral illnesses. These fruits, together with the seeds which are in them, are allocated with excellent ability to keep all the useful properties for a long time, and at the use direct them on:
- increase in firmness of walls of vessels and their ability to extension;
- prevention of developing of atherosclerosis and decrease in probability of a clotting;
- improvement of health at illnesses of a respiratory system (for example, bronchitis, asthma, tracheitis);
- normalization of work of a GIT by a conclusion of toxins, a stop of diarrhea and prevention of development of various illnesses of a stomach and also increase in appetite;
- increase in speed and quality of exchange processes in a human body;
Whether you know? To define sweet of tangerines, it is optional to eat fruits, it is rather simple to look at them. A little flattened copies are considered as the sourest, and here bright orange and rather small tangerines clementines will be the most sweet.
- increase in protective functions of an organism in relation to the virus and infectious attacks;
- decrease in probability of development of avitaminosis in cold season;
- increase in stability of joints, bone and muscle tissue;
- slowing down of natural aging of bodies and systems of a human body;
- stabilization of normal activity of all cardiovascular system and cardiac muscle in particular;
- restoration of normal functioning of an optic nerve and normalization of activity of organs of vision;
- prevention of urolithic and gallstone diseases, reduction of puffiness of a body;
- maintenance of normal indicators of arterial blood pressure;
- easing of depressions.
Besides, tangerines act as quite good prophylactic for prevention of emergence in intestines of helminths and also for treatment of nails and skin for fungal illnesses. Adipsous, haroponizhayushchy, antiedematous, anti-dysenteric and styptic antifungal action has a broad spectrum of activity of the making components of tangerines.
We advise to read about structure, advantage and harm of fruit for a human body: grapefruit, bananas, kiwi, mango, feijoa, durian, unaba.
Presence at the menu of a citrus strengthens an organism and raises its tone that is especially important during the recovery period after the postponed heavy illness.
Important! The glycemic index of the described fruits makes 40–49 units, so, at the dosed use they are not forbidden to application at diabetes. However, in this case it is better to choose only fresh tangerines or to use fresh tangerine juice of 1-2 fruits 2–3 times a day. In the medical purposes also broth from a thin skin of fruit will approach.
About harm
Tangerines — a favourite product of various age categories of people, and sometimes give them even to very small children. Nevertheless, you should not forget also about possible harm of these tasty fruit.
First of all, all of them will be dangerous and cannot be present at a diet of people with individual intolerance of the making components of these fruit, development of an allergy to all citrus, inflammatory illnesses of bodies of a GIT, liver and kidneys (for example, colitis, cholecystitis, nephrite, hepatitis and also diabetes).
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Besides, estimated harm from the excessive use (especially together with seeds) can be expressed in:
- development of stomach ulcer;
- irritation of a mucous membrane of bodies of digestive tract;
- disorder of digestion and hypovitaminosis.
Especially careful at consumption of the described fruit people need to be with the increased acidity, and it is desirable for small children to dissolve tangerine juice with water (50:50) or to give no more than 2 tangerines a day. It is better not to eat a thin skin of fruits without due heat treatment as she is capable to accumulate in herself nitrates.
Whether you know? Those who prefers very juicy and sweet tangerines should try natsumikan — a hybrid of this plant with grapefruit. It is much more sweet than each of "parents".
Despite a set of useful properties of tangerine stones, they possess much more dangerous contraindications, than pulp that in many respects is explained by presence at their structure of a glycoside of an amigdalin which in interaction with the internal environment of a stomach becomes the strong acid capable to cause development of an ulcer.
These components of tangerines are not digested a human stomach, of course, if before the use you did not husk with sunflower seeds and did not chew them very carefully. Certainly, at the use of 1-2 kernels nothing terrible happens.
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Tangerine fruits are called not for nothing "New Year's sunflower seeds", when viewing favourite transfers it is really possible to eat them much. However if you do not want to do much harm to the health, then and here it is worth knowing when to stop. If not to overeat and try to buy products only of the checked suppliers, then these vitamin fruit will bring you only benefit.