Surprising health benefits of water spinach
Water spinach is not only a familiar dish of Vietnamese people, it is also a favorite food in many places around the world such as Bali Island (Indonesia), China, India,... and appears in many restaurants around the world from England, America to Australia...
Water spinach is cheap but brings many health benefits. According to nutritionists, 100g of water spinach contains 90% water, 3g fiber, 3g protein, vitamin C, vitamin E, fat, minerals such as iron, zinc, magnesium...
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According to Oriental medicine, water spinach has a sweet and bland taste, cool properties, detoxifying effects, helps with urination, and cures constipation and painful urination. Folklore uses water spinach to prevent and treat a number of common diseases.
Every 100g of water spinach contains 90% water, 3g fiber, 3g protein, vitamin C, vitamin E, fat, minerals such as iron, zinc, magnesium. This popular and cheap vegetable brings many health benefits. Eating water spinach is beneficial for people with anemia, osteoporosis, low blood pressure, pregnant women, reducing the risk of constipation.
4 side effects of water spinach that many people do not know
Water spinach causes keloids
Water spinach contains compounds that stimulate cells to cause scarring. If the body has a soft tissue injury and eats a lot of water spinach, it will leave a keloid scar, causing an unsightly appearance. Therefore, when the body is injured, especially after surgery, you should only eat water spinach when the wound has fully recovered.
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Increased symptoms of gout, kidney stones
One of the foods that people with gout should avoid is water spinach. When eating water spinach, the body will produce more uric acid, making people with gout feel more pain and discomfort. In addition, eating water spinach also adds a relatively large amount of calcium oxalate, which is the cause of kidney stones. If you have kidney stones or kidney problems, you should limit your intake of water spinach.
Increased symptoms of bone and joint pain
Although Western medicine does not have clear research on the effects of water spinach on people with bone and joint pain, according to Eastern medicine, water spinach will make bone and joint diseases worse and increase the feeling of pain if eaten in large amounts.
Reduced drug effects
Water spinach is actually a medicinal herb in oriental medicine, so if you are taking oriental medicine and eat a lot of water spinach, it will more or less affect the effect of the medicine. Therefore, if you are taking oriental medicine, you need to ask your doctor carefully whether you should eat water spinach or not so as not to reduce the effect of the medicine.
How to eat water spinach safely?
- To be safe, it is best to wash the water spinach thoroughly before eating, then soak it in diluted salt water before cooking.
- If you have time, you should wash the water spinach, drain it, put it in a bag and store it in the refrigerator for a few days before eating (the amount of pesticides will be decomposed).
- Do not eat raw water spinach (especially split water spinach), only eat well-cooked vegetables (do not eat boiled or undercooked water spinach).
- With some digestive diseases that reduce the ability to process food such as ulcerative colitis, you should only eat young, soft vegetables, not old, hard vegetables, because they have high fiber content and can cause bloating and indigestion.
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