Functional component
food source
Health function
Flavonoids (anthocyanins, flavonols, flavanols, etc. )
Fruits, vegetables, tea, cocoa, wine, fruit wine and beer are rich in hawthorn, guava, strawberry, kiwi fruit, mulberry, pomegranate, orange, tangerine, rape, ginger, cowpea, garlic, spinach, leek, broccoli and yam.
Antioxidant, protecting cell membrane from damage, delaying aging, preventing atherosclerosis, and regulating blood lipid.
Isoflavones (genistein, chrysin, daidzein, daidzein, daidzein)
Soybean, yuba, soybean sprouts, mung beans and peas are rich in bean dregs.
Reduce blood cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thereby reducing the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases and reducing the risk of cancer; Estrogen-like effect, feeding menopausal symptoms; Prevention of osteoporosis
Melatonin (pineal hormone)
Oats, sweet corn, rice, barley, ginger, tomatoes, bananas.
Improve sleep, resist oxidation, delay aging, regulate immunity, enhance the curative effect of anticancer drugs and reduce the side effects of drugs.
garlicin
garlic
Inhibit the growth of cancer, regulate blood lipid (lower cholesterol) and relieve atherosclerosis; Improve immunity and resist bacteria and infectious diseases.
Lycopene (a carotenoid)
Tomato, red grapes, watermelon, palm oil.
Enhance immunity, regulate blood lipid (lower cholesterol), feed atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, prevent and inhibit cancer, and delay aging (antioxidant effect)
Phospholipids (lecithin, cephalin, sphingomyelin, cerebroside)
Soybean, egg yolk, lean meat, brain, liver, kidney, yeast
Delaying aging, improving memory, reducing blood fat, preventing fatty liver, constipation, acne and freckles.
Saponins (saponins)
American ginseng, ginseng, five boxes of thorns, soybeans and potatoes (yam lily, orange wick
Anti-fatigue, anti-aging, enhancing immunity, lowering cholesterol, improving hypoxia tolerance, improving cerebral ischemia, resisting tumor, and resisting bacteria and viruses.
Dietary fiber (soluble and insoluble dietary fiber)
Coarse grains, vegetables, fruits, dried fruits and foods rich in konjac flour, beans, barley, oats and buckwheat; Houttuynia cordata, Tricholoma, ginger and leafy vegetables; Persimmon, pomegranate, mulberry, fig, kiwi fruit, wild jujube and black jujube.
Runchang laxative, reduce blood fat and blood particles, reduce fat and prevent cancer.
Polysaccharides (lentinan, ginseng polysaccharide, sugarcane polysaccharide, coix seed polysaccharide, ganoderma lucidum polysaccharide, auricularia auricula polysaccharide, Hericium erinaceus polysaccharide, laver polysaccharide, kelp polysaccharide, tremella polysaccharide and yam polysaccharide)
Mushrooms (Lentinus edodes, mushrooms, Hericium erinaceus, Agaricus blazei, etc. ), medlar, tremella, auricularia, ganoderma lucidum, poria cocos, yam, kelp, sugarcane, coix seed, spirulina.
Hanging fatigue, enhancing immunity, lowering blood sugar and blood lipid, and resisting cancer.
From Wolf Peach to Lycopene
In the past, there was no tomato in China's cookbook. It was westerners who introduced this kind of red persimmon to China. Because our ancestors always called the foreigner's country "Fanbang", tomatoes naturally got the nickname "Tomato". In fact, westerners don't know this kind of fruit. This kind of red fruit was first discovered in the virgin forest by Peruvians in South America, calling it "Wolf Peach", which probably belongs to wild wolves in imagination. Later, I don't know which warrior dared to eat with the wolf and tasted the fruit of satisfying hunger and thirst. Since then, people have added a delicious food to the table.
As we all know, we have to eat food every day to meet the nutritional needs of the body, including dozens of essential nutrients such as protein, vitamins and trace elements. However, the ingredients in human food are far more than these dozens of nutrients. Take potato as an example, it contains 150 different chemical substances, including alkaloids, cellulose, oxalate, tannic acid and 100 non-nutritive substances. In recent years, a large number of nutritional epidemiological surveys have confirmed that increasing the intake of vegetables and fruits can effectively prevent chronic degenerative diseases and reduce the incidence of heart disease, stroke and tumor, thus making scientists more and more interested in studying beneficial ingredients in diet.
Lycopene is a natural pigment in food and belongs to carotenoid in chemical structure. Lycopene mainly exists in tomatoes, but it is also high in other red pulp such as watermelon, grapefruit and papaya. The red and yellow colors of these foods are mainly caused by lycopene. Because this food ingredient has been found to have many functions, such as anti-oxidation, inhibiting mutation, reducing nucleic acid damage, reducing cardiovascular diseases, preventing cancer and so on, it has attracted more and more attention from nutritionists.