Adding carob to your diet can result in multiple health benefits.
Adding carob to your diet can result in multiple health benefits.
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Ceratonia Siliqua L.
Leguminosae
Italy
Spontaneous
it consists of a shiny legume , leathery when ripe, weighing about g 20-40, formed by two valves about 10-20 cm long flat, arched and smooth with very hard and tenacious epicarp, almost blackish-brown iris-scent. Internally (mesocarp) there is a light brown-reddish sweet pulpy layer, divided into loculi each of which contains a hard oval seed, crushed at the apex of reddish-brown color and externally shiny. Cut herbal tea the drug is sticky in more or less regular cubes of about cm. 0,5-1; seeds are visible.
sweetish, from ripe fruit.
weakly sugary.
water 9/14 %; sugars 35/40 % consisting in almost equal quantities of glucose and sucrose; gum composed of d-galactose and d-mannose; protein 5 %; 0,5 % fats consisting of butyric, isobutyric, caproic, benzoic and formic acids; tannin; pectins 1,8-2 %; lignin 25 %; hemicellulose; cellulose 5-5,5 %; sodium, calcium, phosphorus, chlorine, iron. Ash 2-3 %, traces of vitamin A, B, D. Lipids especially in seeds. Traces of potassium. Mucilages (galactomannans) 62 %.
Adding carob to your diet can result in multiple health benefits. This product is in fact naturally rich in fiber and has no caffeine, it is ideal for people with high blood pressure and / or people looking for weight loss. High levels of vitamins, such as vitamins A and B-2, are great for skin and eye health.
So adding or replacing carob in your diet can determine:
It is advisable to examine the consumption of carob if you have digestive problems. Carob tannins, which are dietary compounds found in plants, are different from regular plant tannins. Regular vegetable tannins dissolve in water and prevent digestion, but carob tannins do not. Rather, they have a drying effect on the digestive tract that helps address toxins and prevent harmful bacterial growth in the gut.
The natural sugars found in carob also help thicken loose stools. Research suggests that carob bean juice may be a safe and effective way to treat diarrhea in children and adults.
Carob snacks. Baked carob pods are really great snacks. Just have some fresh locust beans, bake the pods at 120 degrees for about ten minutes and they are then ready to be munched. The seeds contained in the pods should not be eaten as they are excessively hard.
Carob liqueur. If you want to prepare it at home, we advise you to leave the carob pods infused inside the alcohol. Macerate everything for about a month, stirring occasionally. Finally prepare the syrup based on water and sugar, add it to the alcohol, finally mix and strain the mixture. This carob liqueur is excellent served at the end of a meal as a digestive.
To flavor sweets. Carob flour can be used to enrich cakes, pies, muffins, crepes and biscuits. It goes perfectly with everything that goes well together with cocoa, so for example with pears, cinnamon, dried fruit and oranges.
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