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Cooking With Chives And Chives SeedsChives are part of the leeks, shallots, garlic and onion family.
Chive plants have hollow stalks that grow up to 24 inches and these plants grown in clumps. The stalks are used in cooking and give out a light ‘oniony’ taste. Allium Schoenoprasum is the Latin name for chives.
The flower of the chive plant is lavender in color and looks like a pom-pom.
Health and history: The Romans used chives to cure sunburns and sore throat.
Healthy chives: Chives is not only used in cooking for the flavor, but also for the health aspects. It has some anti-inflammatory properties as well as antibiotic properties.
Research also hints at its anti-cancerous properties. Chives, research shows, can also fight prostate cancer. This vegetable is also effective for fighting salmonella.
Types Of Chives And Chives UsesHealth Benefits of Chives: There quite a few health benefits.
- Chives are rich in flavonoids like organosulphides, which have anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects.
- Chives also minimize the risk of getting rheumatoid arthritis.
- Those who consume chives as well as the other plants from the onion family, can actually minimize their risk of getting cancer, especially prostrate cancer and gastrointestinal tract cancer.
- Since chives are rich in flavonoids, it can have a positive effect on blood pressure, and can reduce hypertension.
- The juice of chives can act as an insect repellant. So, if you apply it to wounds and scabs, you can reduce fungal infections.
- Chives are a good source of beta-carotene, which helps to improve eye sight and clear acne. So, chives are a great vegetable for a radiant skin.
- Chives are also rich in vitamin C, which is a water soluble antioxidant. It can improve the immune system, elasticity of blood vessels and skin, prevents bruising, and increases the iron absorption.
- Chives are rich in vitamins E and C, which have antioxidant properties. These properties help to combat free radicals that can cause damage to the cells. Thus, it can also protect people from cancer, cardiac diseases and degenerative ailments.
- Chives are rich in folic acid.
This property also is good for the heart. Folic acid prevents the bunching up of homocysteine, which causes atherosclerosis by damaging the formation of collagen and constricting the blood vessels. - Chives are rich in manganese, copper, zinc, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, iron and calcium. This helps to improve the metabolism of the body.
- This vegetable is a good source of dietary fiber and it adds roughage in the intestines, colon, thus, preventing constipation, diverticular disorders and hemorrhoids.
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