PINEAPPLE, scientifically known as “Ananas comosus”, which is natively found in the South America region, specifically, Brazil and the United State of America. Now second to bananas, the pineapple is now the most important tropical fruit crop in existence, and many are unaware of its nutritional and medicinal value. Have fun as we discover all this in this post.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF PINEAPPLE
- Relieving Joint Pains
Pineapple has anti-inflammatory properties that help to relieve the symptoms of osteoarthritis, also its been touted for reducing swelling after surgery or injury.
- Easing Digestion
Pineapple has shown to be helpful in the treatment of gastro-intestinal problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), slow digestion, constipation, and stomach upset.
- Healing Sunburned Skin
It aids in speeding up the healing of sunburned skin.
- Immune Booster
Pineapple flesh contains a high level of vitamin C, its skin (as in the peel) also contains a high level of vitamin C which helps to prevent and fight a load of infections. It also contains bromelain (a new biochemical that works wonder found and produced from the crown and peel of pineapples) which in conjunction with vitamin C fights bacteria, cuts mucus, suppresses cough, heals wound and boosts the overall functioning of the body.
- Aids Vision
The entire pineapple fruit contains beta-carotene, precursor of vitamin A, which helps to improve vision and also battle degenerative eye diseases such as glaucoma.
- Prevent Cancer
Biochemists have studied bromelain and vitamin C to possess anti-oxidants which has the ability to fight tumors and therefore, aids cancer prevention.
- Blood flow
Bromelain in pineapples, have been shown by studies to possess anti-platelet properties, it
decreases platelet count and its aggregation.
Make pineapple one of your i-can’t-do-without-fruits… Remember too much isn’t good, it causes stomach irritation…
The BodyWahala Consults 