By Yanti

Eggplant Vegetable

Eggplant or Solanum melongena is vegetables originating from India and Sri Lanka and are usually eaten with how steamed, boiled, fried, or baked. Eggplant vegetable that contains many small seeds and tender to eat, but it is bitter because the seeds contain the alkaloid Nicotine eggplant. This is not surprising because the vegetable eggplant is relative with tobacco plant

Variety eggplant vegetables in a wide range of market. There is a long shape, round, and there is also the color purple, dark purple, or green, or white, and eggplant is usually a long shaped vegetable seeds have slightly compared eggplant round vegetables.

Benefits eggplant

Vegetable eggplant are good for consumption by diabetics tipe2  because eggplant vegetable have high fiber with low glycemic index, where food with low glycemic index contain carbohydrates that take a long time to digest and gradually so that blood sugar levels do not rise drastically.

Eggplant vegetables contain folic acid. Folic acid is useful to reduce levels of homocysteine in the blood. Homocysteine is an amino acid that when levels are too high in the blood can clog blood vessels that cause heart disease bias and hypertension. Folic acid is also useful for preventing brain damage in babies of pregnant women. It is also for the beauty matters. European women often use eggplant vegetable to restore and refine the skin and eliminate acne

Eggplant skin contain nasunin  where it can protect brain cells from free radical damage while also beneficial inhibit angiogenesis which is a process that supports the growth and spread of cancer cells by supplying oxygen and nutrients to cancer cells.

Eggplant vegetable contains flavonoids that efficacious as an antioxidant and blood circulation, so good to deal with erectile dysfunction caused by blood circulation disorders

Eggplant vegetables also contain compounds chlorogenic acid, which is one type of antioxidant, which has clinical activity of anticancer, antimicrobial, and antiviral, as well as the ability to reduce LDL cholesterol or bad cholesterol. Eggplant is also known to contain trypsin inhibitors, which is a component that is believed to be able to help neutralize cancer-causing cells

For those who are sick kidney is not recommended to consume the eggplant vegetable, because eggplant contains high oxalate. Oxalic acid is a type of food contained in vegetable when excessive levels in the body will crystallize and form kidney stones.