benefits and harms, interesting facts

Egg­plant helps to cope with car­dio­vas­cu­lar ail­ments and even pro­long life. But that’s not all. Why are egg­plants use­ful, how many calo­ries are in them, is it pos­si­ble to breast­feed them, and in what cas­es is it dan­ger­ous to use them? All in our arti­cle.

Egg­plant is not only a great ingre­di­ent for culi­nary delights, but also a very healthy veg­etable that has many great prop­er­ties for the body.

Nutritional value of eggplant

Egg­plant con­tains many use­ful and nutri­tious sub­stances that help the body cope with dis­eases and all sorts of prob­lems. So, what can be found in one hun­dred grams of egg­plant?

Eggplant calories:

• 25 calo­ries
• 0.2 g fat
• 0 g cho­les­terol
• 2 mg. sodi­um
• 229 mg. potas­si­um
• 6g carbs
• Cal­ci­um, iron, mag­ne­sium, vit­a­mins A, B12, C, B6

The benefits and harms of eggplant

Giv­en the whole set of nutri­ents and vit­a­mins, we can draw the first con­clu­sions about how use­ful this veg­etable is. But every­thing is not so sim­ple.

The benefits of eggplant

Antho­cyanins — sub­stances that give egg­plant skin a pur­ple col­or, improve mem­o­ry, nor­mal­ize blood pres­sure, and also reduce the risk of stroke. Due to the high con­tent of potas­si­um salts and a spe­cial sub­stance melanogen, this cul­ture acti­vates the work of the heart mus­cle (myocardi­um), reduces ele­vat­ed cho­les­terol lev­els in the blood and liv­er. It also removes excess flu­id from the body, nor­mal­izes water-salt and lipid metab­o­lism, relieves ede­ma.

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Egg­plants are includ­ed in med­ical nutri­tion to strength­en immu­ni­ty, pre­vent ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis (pre­vent the appear­ance of ath­er­o­scle­rot­ic plaques). They also help with con­sti­pa­tion: the del­i­cate fiber of this veg­etable stim­u­lates bow­el activ­i­ty. Espe­cial­ly use­ful are “blue” women who have a ten­den­cy to devel­op endome­tri­al tumors and kid­ney dis­eases.

• With gout and in the com­plex ther­a­py of dis­eases asso­ci­at­ed with dis­or­ders of min­er­al metab­o­lism (pol­yarthri­tis, kid­ney stone and cholelithi­a­sis), egg­plants are valu­able in that they accel­er­ate the excre­tion of uric acid salts from the body.
• With ane­mia, it is rec­om­mend­ed to include dish­es from these veg­eta­bles in the diet dai­ly. Iron, cop­per and man­ganese improve the hematopoi­et­ic process and elim­i­nate gen­er­al weak­ness.
• With ner­vous exhaus­tion, chron­ic fatigue syn­drome, a por­tion of stewed egg­plant will raise vital­i­ty.

The most use­ful for health pro­mo­tion are devel­oped, but unripe fruits, which are “turned” 25–40 days old. Slight­ly unripe egg­plants, which have an almost black hue of the skin, are also con­sid­ered the most deli­cious. They tend to have few seeds, and they taste very ten­der and not bit­ter at all.

Egg­plant rich vit­a­mins groups AT, respon­si­ble for the state ner­vous sys­tems. That’s why it con­sid­er nat­ur­al anti­de­pres­sant. His use helps deal with bad mood, excite­ment and even insom­nia. That’s why advise every time turn it on in own diet before impor­tant events.

And egg­plant will help you fight extra pounds, because 100 g con­tains only 28 kcal. By the way, egg­plant caviar is an aphro­disi­ac, which means that it is quite a suit­able dish for din­ner with your loved one! Even in ancient times, men who lean on egg­plant dish­es were con­sid­ered good lovers.

Edi­tor’s advice. Egg­plant can do a lot: even help you… quit smok­ing. They are rich in nico­tinic acid, which alle­vi­ates with­draw­al symp­toms.

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Who can’t eat eggplant

Despite its ben­e­fi­cial prop­er­ties, egg­plant is not for every­one.

First of all, this applies to those who have prob­lems with the gas­troin­testi­nal tract, patients with gas­tri­tis, ulcers, pan­cre­ati­tis, col­i­tis and diar­rhea. The fact is that egg­plant con­tains a lot of fiber and fibers, which are digest­ed with great dif­fi­cul­ty.

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With dia­betes, you should also not get too car­ried away with egg­plant dish­es, because these veg­eta­bles, which do not con­tain many car­bo­hy­drates and calo­ries, can cause a decrease in blood glu­cose lev­els up to hypo­glycemia.

Here are some warn­ing signs to watch out for:

• con­fu­sion;
• nau­sea and vom­it­ing;
• diar­rhea;
• pain in the stom­ach, abdomen;
• dys­p­nea;
• how big;
• con­vul­sions.

If you encounter these symp­toms after eat­ing an egg­plant dish, see a doc­tor imme­di­ate­ly!

Impor­tant! Over­ripe fruits should not be eat­en, as they may con­tain a dan­ger­ous sub­stance — sola­nine.

And, of course, weak­ened kid­neys will not say thank you for the salts and esters of oxal­ic acid con­tained in egg­plant. There­fore, if you have kid­ney prob­lems, it is bet­ter to refuse egg­plant.

Eggplant and breastfeeding

Can you eat egg­plant while breast­feed­ing? This ques­tion is often asked by doc­tors and nutri­tion­ists. We also have the answer to it.

Yes, it is real­ly pos­si­ble and even nec­es­sary to eat egg­plant while breast­feed­ing. They con­tain a large amount of vit­a­mins and min­er­als that a child needs in the first months of life, so you can not refuse. How­ev­er, there are a few caveats.

How to eat eggplant for nursing mothers:

• Buy only in sea­son from trust­ed sell­ers or grow home­made.
• Enter the menu grad­u­al­ly after reach­ing two months of age.
• Do not exceed the dai­ly allowance: 100–150 grams.
• Do not eat raw, over­grown, or over­grown egg­plants.
• You can not eat fried egg­plant, baked with olive oil is best absorbed.

How to choose eggplant

Healthy and tasty egg­plant must be cho­sen with great care. The first and manda­to­ry rule is proven sup­pli­ers. Do not buy egg­plant “from hand”, as they can be grown in poor con­di­tions and will not bring any ben­e­fit. Choose dense, but not hard egg­plants, and also pay atten­tion to the stalk: it should not be stale and dry in appear­ance.

Signs of the per­fect egg­plant:

• oblong shape (with the excep­tion of cer­tain vari­eties);
• shiny skin with­out spots and dam­age;
• firm pulp.

Also pay atten­tion to the num­ber of seeds. An over­ripe egg­plant is easy to spot because it has a lot of seeds. These egg­plants should nev­er be eat­en!

How to remove bitterness from eggplant

It is quite easy, and every host­ess knows the secret of such a pro­ce­dure. It is enough just to soak the cut egg­plants in salt water. It will take half an hour, and the egg­plants will no longer be bit­ter.

Egg­plants are very healthy, but like every­thing healthy, they are good in mod­er­a­tion. You can’t get car­ried away and over­do it with any­thing.