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Caraway
Caraway
The Carum carvi plant grows to about two feet in height and is covered with tiny, feathery leaves.
Caraway is a member of the carrot family, the plant’s roots can be eaten, but most people use the caraway fruit, which is mistakenly called seed.
Uses
There’s a lot more to caraway seeds than their use as a spice. These seeds have been a part of European and Asian cuisine for hundreds of years. It’s often found in savory foods like cheese, meat dishes, and sauerkraut. However, it is also used in herbal medicine.
Historically, caraway seeds have been used to treat everything from indigestion to bloating to gas.
There are several different ways to incorporate caraway seeds in your daily diet:
Use it as a flavoring in bread or cakes, or as a spice in vegetable and meat dishes, sprinkled raw onto salads.
Caraway tea is a popular medicinal method, as is using caraway as a warm wrap or poultice directly on the skin or site of pain/inflammation.
You may also see caraway in natural toothpaste and mouth fresheners, lotions, perfumes, and soaps.
Health benefits of Caraway
Dietary fibre eliminates toxins in the food and thereby, helps protect the colon mucosa from cancers. Further, dietary fibers bind to bile salts (produced from cholesterol) and decrease their re-absorption in the colon combating constipation.
Caraway spice is an excellent source of minerals like iron, copper, calcium, potassium, manganese, selenium, zinc and magnesium. Copper is required to produce red blood cells. Iron is essential for red blood cell synthesis. Zinc is a co-factor in many enzymes that regulate growth and development, digestion and nucleic acid synthesis. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps regulate heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese used by the body as a co-factor for the powerful antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.
Caraway is used to soothe muscle sores, clear the cold, as a remedy for bronchitis and irritable bowel syndrome, improve sleep, menstrual relief, wight Loss, hart health, lower Blood Pressure, skin care, bone health, sugar control, Improves Sleeping habit, Anti-Bacterial, and for healthy Skin.
NUTRITIONAL VALUES PER 2GRAM
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Calories7
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ProteinLess than 1 gram
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FatLess than 1 gram
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Carbohydrates1 gram
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FiberLess than 1 gram
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SugarLess than 1 gram
