Day or also known as sticky vegetable is a popular vegetable in Vietnam. In the world, it is often grown in other regions of Asia and the Middle East.
Day is one of the vegetables that contains a lot of iron and minerals and vitamins. Because of its cool nature, mildness, and unique sweetness, day is often used to cook soup in the summer such as crab soup with day vegetables, shrimp soup with day vegetables,…
The difference of day vegetable compared to other vegetables is its stickiness, just pinch a few leaves and then squeeze it, you will feel your hands very smooth and sticky.
What are the effects of day vegetables?
Day vegetables help smooth bowel movements and treat constipation
In day vegetables, there are many polysaccharides, so they will increase intestinal circulation and prevent constipation. Besides, day vegetables contain a lot of mucous substances and sucrose and inositol, which stimulate intestinal movement and soften stool, making it very effective in treating constipation.
Day vegetables are good for cardiovascular health
The seeds of day vegetables contain many different glycosides, mainly corchorosid and olitorisid. These substances have a high cardiac-assisting effect, increase the contractility of the heart, and reduce heart rate to be in accordance with biological heartbeat.
Day vegetables help cool down the body and detoxify
Day vegetables contain a lot of water but have a high cool effect, so they are very good in detoxifying the body, have a cooling effect, treat heat-related diseases such as internal heat, mouth heat, sunstroke treatment, especially in hot weather like today, the body will feel uncomfortable, restless, causing loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping.
Day vegetables help increase milk supply for pregnant women
Because day vegetables contain a lot of water, it increases the volume of milk, especially the gelatinous substances in day vegetables will push the milk to be more. After giving birth, if mothers eat day vegetables continuously for 4 weeks, they will see a steady increase in milk volume.
Day vegetables prevent rickets, good for infants
Day vegetables are an indispensable food in the menu for babies in the weaning age. At this age, children are prone to rickets so they need to supplement a lot of nutrients and calcium which are found in day vegetables.
When preparing food for children, mothers should remember to remove the stems, only take the leaves, chop them finely, and mix with the baby’s food.
For adults with osteoporosis, joint calcification, osteoporosis, they should eat day vegetables regularly every week to improve the symptoms of the disease.
Day vegetables help promote urination, prevent urinary tract infections
People who often have difficulty urinating or have urinary problems should not miss day vegetables. Day vegetables have active ingredients that have a good cardiovascular effect, so they will increase the amount of urine, making it easy for urine to come out.
In addition, day vegetables also have natural anti-inflammatory properties. If used regularly, it will have an anti-inflammatory effect, reduce inflammation in the bladder, urinary tract,…
Day vegetables help treat wounds, snake bites
It may sound strange but the truth is this is one of the amazing uses of day vegetables. When bitten by a snake, you need to choose the tip of the day vegetable, combine it with the tip of the pepper, and the stem of the string bean, each with a handful, rinse thoroughly with water. Then mince it and squeeze the juice to drink, and apply the residue to the bite.
Note: This is only a temporary first aid step, you should go to the nearest medical facility or hospital for appropriate and timely treatment!
Day vegetables help fight inflammation
In the mucous of day vegetables, there are substances such as: Vanillic, Hydroxybenzoic, Ferulic, Coumaric. These 4 ingredients all have anti-inflammatory effects, although not as strong as Western medicine, they help you prevent diseases safely with few side effects.
Day vegetables help prevent asthma
The seeds of day vegetables have expectorant effects, anti-edema, reduce respiratory tract spasms, and support the prevention of asthma attacks.
People with asthma can grow day vegetables to use the seeds for regular drinking to prevent the disease, effectively prevent symptoms.
Day vegetables help prevent anemia
In about 100mg of day vegetables, there are about 7mg of iron, so day vegetables are ranked first among the most blood-nourishing vegetables and tubers.
Women after childbirth can use about 200-300g of day vegetables/day to meet the demand for iron supplementation for the body.
In addition, people with anemia due to iron deficiency should also regularly supplement this food into their diet to improve the symptoms of anemia.
Who should not eat day vegetables?
People who are prone to diarrhea, have a cold stomach, should not eat a lot of day vegetables continuously. When washing vegetables, do not crush the vegetables, limit excessive washing that removes the mucus from the vegetables and the vitamins and minerals in the vegetables.
Healthy people should eat a moderate amount of day vegetables, about 2-5 times/week to promote intestinal peristalsis and help easy urination. However, eating too much day vegetables can cause indigestion, so people with gastrointestinal diseases should not eat too much.
Children under 5 years old should not eat too much day vegetables because it interferes with the absorption of calcium and zinc in the body, affecting bone and brain development.
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