Summer is the season of harvest corn, walking in the street, from time to time waves of corn floated the fragrance. Corn is a low-calorie foods, eat meals as a weight loss not only easy to satiety, but also thin. Nutrition experts generally agreed that the staple food among the corn nutritional value and health effects is very prominent. The vitamin content of corn rice, flour several times. Not only contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, carotene, etc., but also contains many minerals and vitamins E and riboflavin and other nutrients.
Corn contains unsaturated fatty acids, especially linoleic acid content as high as 60%, and corn germ and vitamin E have synergistic effect, not only helps lower blood cholesterol levels, while preventing their deposition in the vessel wall. These substances to prevent heart disease and cancer and other diseases have significant benefits. What to eat to lose weight in summer?
Corn contains a longevity factor - called glutathione, selenium participation in, be able to generate glutathione oxidase, has anti-human aging. Different colors of corn, its health effects are slightly different, because they contain the pigment is not the same species. Compared with white corn, purple corn and more anthocyanins, the antioxidant, anti-aging effect. Yellow corn contain lutein and zeaxanthin, while white corn is not. Its powerful antioxidant can absorb the harmful rays entering the eye.
Different corn taste is not the same, but the nutritional value is also different. There is a "fruit-based sweet corn", the same as the fruit can be eaten raw. Popular popular. This sweet corn, protein and fat and vitamin content 1-2 times higher than corn, the content of selenium is as high as 8-10 times, 17 of which contains 13 kinds of amino acids than normal corn. As a high sugar content of sweet corn, mostly sucrose, glucose, can lead to blood sugar, obesity should be eaten in moderation.
Although the high content of waxy corn protein, while rich in vitamin A, vitamin B1, etc., is just one of a very high amylopectin content, and inappropriate eating with diabetes are obese, while corn contains higher crude fiber, soluble sugar content is low, it is suitable for people with diabetes throughout the year to lose weight and eat people.