Paprika is a wonderful tasty and healthful vegetable that can be bought and eaten year-round or grow on his allotment. Useful properties of peppers help to preserve health and prevent and cope with many human diseases.

Description: peppers
Paprika is one of the varieties of sweet Vegetable peppers, belonging to the family Solanaceae. In nature in the wild vegetable pepper is found in the tropical regions of America and is a long-term plant cultivated pepper divorces on almost all continents and is annual. The fruits of paprika can be red, Orange, Brown and yellow colors, different sizes and shapes.

Ingredients: peppers
Composition of pepper is rich in vitamins, it contains vitamins a, e, k, r, s, group b (B1, B3, B2, B6, B5, B9). On the content of vitamin c, Peppers is not inferior to the limonu, and redcurrant, black and vitamin a-carrots. In addition contains magnesium, iodine, zinc, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, sodium and other useful for human health.

Calorie peppers:
Calorie peppers makes about 25 kcal per 100 grams of product.

Useful properties of Peppers:

• Paprika strengthens the body, improves the immune system, protects the body from colds.

• Paprika reduces the likelihood of cancer.

• Has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, improves the composition and dilutes the blood, strengthens the walls of blood vessels.

• Normalizes digestive system, increases appetite.

• Paprika is useful to view.

• Favorably affects the nervous system, helps to cope with tension, stress, chronic fatigue and insomnia.

• Experts recommend include paprika in the diet of people with diabetes.

• Pepper helps improve memory, so useful for elderly people and people engaged intellectually.

• Scientists have found that regular consumption of pepper reduces the deleterious effects of tobacco. Therefore, this type of pepper, it is recommended to include in the diet of active and passive smokers.

• Paprika improves the condition of the bones, skin, hair and nails.

• Ointments that contain paprika, help sciatica and arthritis.

• Bell Pepper used in cosmetology. From it make facial masks that saturate your skin with vitamins and help keep youth for years to come.

Contraindications: peppers
When liver and kidney diseases, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, hypertension, epilepsy, hemorrhoids, peptic ulcers and gastritis with hyperacidity, bell peppers can be harmful, so be sure to consult your doctor.

The use of Peppers:
Use paprika fresh is best, because most of the nutrients are lost when cooked. Picking peppers in shops and markets, pay attention to the fact that the surface of the peppers should be firm smooth without wrinkles and crinkles, and peduncle green and firm.

Eat peppers with pleasure. Useful properties of the products and possible contraindications for their addicting you can read on the page «useful products.
Remember that a healthy lifestyle is not only of good nutrition, but also from hardening, non-harmful habits and other components.