Celery is a vegetable-shaped leaves and medicinal plants commonly used as a spice in cooking. Celery are easily found. In countries such as Japan, China and Korea, part of the celery stalk leaves are also used as a food ingredient. Even European countries, they use all parts of celery, ranging from leaf, petiole, fruit and tuber.
Celery leaves are commonly used as an ingredient in a soup. Celery is also very useful for natural treatment. Celery contains a lot of water and fiber and excellent for digestion. But you should not to consume celery if you are suffering from diarrhea.
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Here is 7 reasons why you should eat celery :
- Very nice to regulate alkaline balance in the body
- Helps relieve inflammation
- Relieves asthma, acne, joint pain and lung infections
- Reduce blood pressure, because it contains active compounds called phthalides
- Celery is also good to overcome the bad cholesterol in the body
- Stalk of celery is also good for eye health. It is also suited to help you lose weight, because one stalk of celery contains only 10 calories.
- Celery can also make your sleep easily, because celery help calm the nervous system in your body.
Additional tips :
Use steam to maintain the flavor of celery and keep the nutritional of celery up to 99%. Moreover, in choosing celery, choose the shaf bent vertically, with leaves that look crisp and fresh. If the celery has a darker color, their flavor will be stronger and you should consume chopped celery and fresh.
