Skip to main content

Benefits of chilies


 Chili is used in most of Indian gravies and vegetable dishes. It is used in making chutney, sauces, pickles, dehydrated chilies and in day to day preparations. 

 

Dry chilies are used in seasoning. In Chinese cookery chili and vinegar are used as a side dish. Chili chicken, chili fish, chili mutton and chili sauce are also used in cookery.

  

They occur in different sizes, shapes and color shades. The red coloring matter of chilies is due to capsanthin. Chili adds taste to recipe, makes food palatable. Instead of taking plain salads, one can add some chili to salads, which increases the taste and makes it easy to consume. 

Different types of chili
 Chili can be used in form of powder or as a fresh. Because of its pungent taste, chili can increase the acidity in some group of people. If acidity arise due to chili left untreated or prolonged acidity due to chili, will result in destruction of mucosal cells (burning and dying of cells of stomach); this is because of “capsaicin”. Capsaicin is a substance found in chili which result in cell destruction and give rise to other ailments. 

 

Chili plant at home

You can have organic chili, right there at your home. All that you need to do is just sow the seeds of chili in a pot. 

Plant needs a warm, sunny position outside. Placing the plant outside or in sunshine helps the chili to develop the intense heat, taste and flavor. 

Sow your chili plant in summer season as the plant needs hot climate to grow.

 

 

 

  Benefits of consuming chilies:


1.       Anti-flatulence: Capsaicin present in chili stimulates digestive system (if taken in small amount), therefore digestion process occurs completely and aid in gas problem.

2.       Detoxification : Chilies increases blood circulation. Poor blood circulation leads to toxins to accumulate in body and therefore attracts many diseases; therefore body needs detoxification to stay healthy.

3.       Sore-throat: Chili can help in curing sore throat.

4.       Prevents cancer: Chili can kill pancreatic cancerous cells, it is noted in research that vitamin C, beta-carotene found in chili fights the cancer.

5.       Pain-killer: chilies causes several chemical reactions inside our body where it causes inactivation of mechano-sensitive transmembrane channels in neurons which results in relieve from pain.

6.       Asthma: chili dilates the airway of the lung and which reduces asthma and wheezing.

 

                                                    

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Beware !! bread lovers

  Breads are formed with flour, water, milk, sugar + salt and yeast. Yeast is live, single celled fungus. There are about 160 species of yeast and many of them live around us. Yeasts are dormant until they come in contact with warm water once they are activated, they start feeding on sugar present in flour and release carbon di oxide that makes bread to rise. Yeast also adds distinctive flavors and aroma to bread.  Micro-organism in bread Contamination or poor handling of bread can lead to grow other microorganism that may be infectious. “ Some changes caused by micro-organism are desirable and necessary for making certain kinds of bread but micro-organism through contamination may give deleterious effect on health. For e.g. acid fermentation by lactic and coliform bacteria in batter / paste is normal but if batter kept for long time result in increased numbers of bacteria, will result in sourness of products and can disturb the GUT. It starts from Micro-organism come...
Post a Comment
Read more

Want to increase the HEIGHT?

  Want to have attractive personality or participate in catwalk or career in modeling? Height is indispensable factor for it. Because the craze of good height is more in teenagers there is big scam of some money minded companies which claims to increase height with their products. But are these products really work? Are they safe and fit for health? Well, we all are living in a world of adulteration where milk is adulterated with detergent, shampoo, water, white powder etc., fruits are coated with wax and vegetables injected to ripe. If natural foods are heavily adulterated there is no guaranty for the quality and assurance of manufactured foods. Before you get trapped in scam of “height increasing product”, first you should know that there are 5 types of bones and growth can only occur in long bones. 1.        Flat bone: They are hard with a spongy layer; they are thin and bent or curved. Sternum and scapulae. 2.     ...
Post a Comment
Read more

'Apple' shaped obesity or 'Pear' shaped obesity - which is your's?

Obesity is a complex disorder in which body fat has accumulated excessively so that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to increased disease incidence and decreased life expectancy. Depending on storage of fats in body there are two categories of obesity Central obesity (men) Peripheral obesity (women) In common language they are termed as ‘APPLE’ or ‘PEAR’ shaped obesity and other scientific names are ‘ANDROID’ & ‘GYNOID’ obesity. ‘ANDROID’ obesity is more prevalent in men and ‘GYNOID’ obesity in women. What is Apple & Pear shape of Obesity   In the central type of obesity also called as Apple shaped obesity, the fat occupies the abdominal region of subjects. In the peripheral type also called as Pear shaped obesity, fat is accumulated around the hip and thigh areas. This means that the hips are almost rounded and the buttocks look larger compared to normal people. Diseases that arise in body due to obesity ·      ...
Post a Comment
Read more