Make Your Body Fresh With Pear Fruit

Fruit is very refreshing our bodies because they contain lots of natural water and natural fruit juices that have many kinds of nutritious vitamins contained in them. In this case pears taste good. Most of us would never eat a pear. However, few of us who know the pear as a fruit that has a high nutritional value. A very prominent poet, Homer in The Odyssey even called a pear as a "gift from God". At the time of Louis XIV ruled in France, a pear is one of the food of the nobles.


Pear genus Pyrus and included in the family Rosaceae. Like the apple, including juicy pear fruit because the water content is very high. This fruit has an average weight of 160 grams with a length of 18 cm and 8 cm wide. The characters that bring freshness to a pear is a favorite of consumers. These kinds of usability when we eat a pear:




Control Blood Pressure


Pear plants classified as having a fairly good nutritional value, among which are potassium, dietary fiber (dietary fiber), vitamin C, vitamin K, and copper. According to The George Mateljan Foundation (2006), the content of dietary fiber in pears included in either category. Consumption of pears have met 19.8 percent of the body's need for dietary fiber every day.


In addition to lowering cholesterol, dietary fiber content of the pear is also very useful in the digestive system. Consumption of adequate amounts of fiber is good for constipation and is safe for sensitive stomach or intestinal inflammation.


Fiber and copper on pear can also prevent colon cancer. High fiber content makes a pear is also very good for people with diabetes.


Vitamin C and K


Pears are a good source of vitamin C. Consumption of pears sufficient to meet 17 percent of the body's vitamin C every day. Vitamin C is known as the primary compound your body needs in a variety of important processes, ranging from the manufacture of collagen (fibrous protein that forms connective tissue in the bone), fat transport, transport of electrons from a variety of enzymatic reactions, hyper healthy gums, regulating cholesterol levels, and hyper immunity. In addition, our bodies need vitamin C for wound healing and improve brain function in order to work optimally.


The content of vitamin K in a pear is also quite good. Consumption of pears sufficient to meet 15 percent of the body's need for vitamin K each day.
Vitamin K is very useful to help the clotting process. Vitamin K has potential in preventing serious diseases, like heart disease and stroke, due to the effect that may reduce hardening of the arteries by a factor of calcium plaque deposits.




Anticancer


Pears have a number of useful benefits for health care. In addition to its high nutritional content, pears also contain compounds that are essential for the body.


Pears contain chlorogenic acid (chlorogenic acid), which is one part of hydroxy cinnamic acid (hydroxy cinnamic acid). Hydroxy cinnamic acid is acting as an antioxidant which can block the formation of cancer cells. The results also showed that the acid could prevent the growth of Shigella sonnei bacteria, which cause diseases of the digestive tract.


Hydroxy cinnamic acid can also prevent colon cancer. These capabilities have because it can bind to nitric acid in the stomach, thus inhibiting the formation of nitrosamines.Nitrosamines are carcinogens (cause cancer) with huge potential in the body.