Raisin For Healthy Heart and Digest

December 22, 2009 by mifta · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Food Facts, Healing and Medication 

Perhaps raisin is not a basic food, but we must admit that raisin is widely used in dishes. We use raisin in cookies, bakery, and any other kinds of dishes. Raisin has a specific texture, it is delicate, and has a sweet taste.

RaisinRaisin (sometimes also known with currant) is found of having a high calories, fiber and minerals that contributes a lot for human body’s health. Raisin or currant is very helpful to protect human heart, and it is good for our digest.

1. Protecting Heart

Doctor Wu of Illinois’s University at Chicago, USA, points out that raisin contains compounds that is able to defy damage caused by bacteria which commonly fills teeth and gum. Intended compound is an antioxidant experiences.

Another research by L. Keen of Davis’s California University revealed that currant or raisin consumption regularly everyday for 4 weeks, will increase the antioxidant’s capacities plasmas, one that in turn down LDL’S oxidation runaway speed (criminal cholesterol). The obstruction of LDL’S oxidation runaway speed is all to the good for cardiovascular health step-up and preventing various degenerative disease which can cause coroner heart disease, stroke and hypertension.

2. Clearing Our Intestine

Mary Ellen Camire’s research of Maine’s University points out, food fiber on currant can tie-up acid bile and discards it body issue via processes to defecate. That mechanism by itself will reduce the cholesterol rate. The decreasing of blood cholesterol, help prevent coroner and heart disease cancer . Each 1 / 2 Californian currant cups contain 1, 5 grams of inulin’s, descending cholesterol rate, improving immunes system (body invulnerability), and intestinal health preserver, particularly large intestine, so it’s effective to prevent colon cancer.

Currant (raisin) was made from dried seedless grapes until reaches water rate 15-18 g and sugar rate 68-70 g about 100 g currants. Good currants have cacao color or golden.

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