The effect and role of lettuce

Lettuce, also known as lettuce, raw bamboo shoots, white bamboo shoots, and other vegetables. Lettuce taste fresh, light green color, like jasper in general, making dishes can be baked, cool, hot, crisp taste. It also has unique nutritional value.

Lettuce meat is delicate, and raw fried stir well. Eaten lettuce can enhance the secretion of gastric juice and digestive juice and increase the secretion of bile. The potassium in lettuce is 27 times that of sodium, which helps promote urination and maintain water balance. It is of great benefit to patients with hypertension and heart disease. The fluorine contained in lettuce can participate in the formation of enamel and dentin and participate in the growth of bones. The high content of iodine in the lettuce leaves will have a beneficial effect on the basal metabolism and physical development of the human body. The nutrition of lettuce leaves is much higher than that of lettuce stems. The leaves are more than 72 times higher than the carotene contained in their stems, vitamin B1 is 2 times, vitamin B2 is 5 times, vitamin C4 is 3 times, so lettuce leaves are discarded and not eaten. It is a pity. In addition, those who suffer from coughing in the fall, eat more lettuce leaves can also cough.

The effect and role of lettuce leaves:

1. Open up profits and eliminate product under gas:

Lettuce taste fresh and slightly bitter, can stimulate the secretion of digestive enzymes, increase appetite. Its milky serum enhances secretion of gastric juice, digestive glands, and secretion of bile, thereby promoting the function of various digestive organs. It is particularly beneficial to patients with weakened digestive function, decreased acidity in the digestive tract, and constipation.

2. Diuretic milk:

The potassium content of lettuce is much higher than that of sodium, which is beneficial to the balance of water and electrolyte in the body and promotes the secretion of urine and milk. Have a certain therapeutic effect on people with hypertension, edema, and heart disease;

3. Strong body, anti-cancer anti-cancer:

Lettuce contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, has a role in regulating the function of the nervous system, and its contained organic content is rich in the body can absorb iron, is very beneficial to patients with iron deficiency anemia. The hot water extract of lettuce has a high inhibition rate on some cancer cells, so it can also be used to prevent cancer and cancer;

4. Wide bowel movement:

Lettuce contains a lot of plant cellulose, can promote intestinal peristalsis, facilitate the digestive tract, help the stool excretion, can be used to treat various constipation.