"Internet celebrity" vegetable okra can really lose weight and fight cancer?

In recent years, okra has become a popular "Internet celebrity" vegetable on the dining table. it has been circulated on the Internet for a long time as a "magic medicine" for the treatment of diabetes, and has a series of health effects, such as weight loss, anti-cancer, anti-aging and so on. So, is it really so magical for the okra that has been repeatedly sought after?

Okra, also known as okra and sheep's horn bean, is native to Africa and belongs to the genus Malvaceae. It is an annual herb to harvest its young pods for consumption. It is a vegetable, medicine and flower plant, so it has a wide range of uses.

But in fact, its origin is Africa, and there are basically no reports about okra in China before 2008. It was the 2008 Olympic Games that made okra a celebrity on the Internet. At that time, people saw foreign athletes eating okra on TV, and they thought it was of high nutritional value, so they began to admire it.

In addition, okra, emerald green color, the section is star-shaped, "good-looking", deeply loved by everyone, it can be said to bring its own "network celebrity" temperament.

So, as an Internet celebrity, is okra really of high nutritional value? From the "Chinese Food composition Table", we can see that okra contains no outstanding part of nutrients either in terms of species or content. In other words, the nutritional effect of okra as a vegetable is the nutritional effect of most of the civilian vegetables eaten in people's daily diet.

So is it true that it has the effect of treating "diabetes"?

In fact, okra has a certain role in controlling blood sugar, but also benefit from its high content of dietary fiber. Okra pods contain a sticky liquid, this viscous mixture contains hemicellulose, cellulose, lignin, pectin and polysaccharides, so it can be regarded as an important coordinate of okra quality. And it is precisely because of their existence that diners have a strong sense of fullness for okra, which can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, prevent constipation and prevent obesity, but also alleviate the speed of people's postprandial blood sugar rise. so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the rise of blood sugar to a certain extent.

But what we need to understand is that this dietary effect of okra is only the basic function of dietary fiber, and any food with high fiber content has an effect, which is not unique to okra. At the same time, it only alleviates the increase in blood sugar to a certain extent, but it does not play any role in place of insulin.

Therefore, it is indeed a little reluctant to label okra as a "diabetes nemesis".

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