Nutritionists talked about the unique properties of apples

In addition to their own excellent taste are apples are good features in very large numbers.

In our country this is the most common fruit and it is nice that it is specifically very useful and necessary for our health. The healing characteristics of apples, you can explain them to medical staff. In these fruits contain vitamins P, C, E, B1, B2, carotene, also potassium, iron, calcium, sodium, boron, phosphorus, copper, iodine, aluminium, magnesium, fluorine, manganese, zinc, pectin, cellulose, organic acids and sugars. And in the skin of the fruit are flavonoids.

Useful characteristics of these vitamin-rich fruits found extensive use in folk medicine and in cooking, and even in cosmetics.

Apples: beneficial characteristics for health

The fruit of the tree contributes to the normalization of the functioning of the digestive system and gastrointestinal tract, and are used to increase appetite and prevent constipation. One fruit with the skin contains more than 10% of the needed daily value of fiber, which the body needs. The insoluble fiber in apples, excrete harmful substances and prevent constipation. The consumption of this fruit improves the microflora of the intestinal tract and digestion.

Apple lowers blood cholesterol due to the pectin content in it. The use of this product in food contributes to health cholesterol, lowering the possibility of heart attacks and clogging of blood vessels. And pectin helps to bind harmful substances (e.g. arsenic and lead) entering the body, and then they withdraw from the human body. To reduce the risk of atherosclerosis are capable of biologically active constituents of these fruits.

The cardiovascular system is strengthens Yablokov juice. But if an hour before Breakfast, eat a couple of Antonov apples, reduced to 20 percent the risk of early destruction from heart disease.

Polyphenols and flavonoids found in fruits have anti-tumor effect: they bind free radicals, dangerous for health. These compounds have even stronger antioxidant capability than vitamin C, which also have apples.

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