Learn more about parsley nutrition Added: 10/05/2005

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Parsley (Petroselinum) is a sort of annual and biannual plants belonging to Umbelliferae family. There are four kinds, basically in the Mediterranean. The most widespread parsley is biannual vegetable culture. During the first year the plants form a radical rosette of petiole leaves and thin roots or a root, during the second - flowers and seeds.

Parsley has pinnate leaves with corrugated edges, a root is fleshy and lengthened, grayish or yellowish. A floriferous stalk grows up to 3 feet. Parsley is cultivated on all continents. The area of cultivation of herb parsley lies in the Mediterranean. Parsley is well known for a long time, but it has started to be used as a spicy vegetable quite recently.

The point was that in the Ancient world parsley was considered to be a symbol of sorrow, as the herb was considered to have grown on the blood of an Egyptian God's son. With time a superstitious attitude has been developed, and only after the discovery of medical properties of parsley people changed their mind. Many useful properties of parsley have been discovered. Thus, parsley can remove hypostasis, it has a sudorific and choleretic effect.

Parsley relieves during nephrolithiasis, cystitis, polyarthritis and other diseases. It was the beginning of parsley popularity. Parsley nutrition is very useful since it contains different vitamins. Also parsley contains essential oil, giving the herb spicy taste and aroma. Parsley fresh leaves, seeds and roots are used not only in folk medicine, but also in pharmaceutical and perfume industries. Parsley leaves and roots are used for a food in fresh state.

Parsley nutrition is very useful as far as parsley contains the following vitamins: Â1, Â2, Âñ, Ê, ÐÐ, carotene and others. Parsley contains flavonoids, phytoncides, glykhocides, salts of magnesium, calcium and ferric salts. Owing to high and well balanced content of potassium and calcium, parsley is prescribed during diseases of the cardiovascular system, urination disorders, diabetes.

Parsley nutrition has spasmolytic, sedative, bactericidal, desensitize, antiallergic, carminative, sudorific and diuretic actions. Parsley nutrition regulates saline metabolism, removes products of decay and salts of heavy metals. Parsley is a strong purifying herb that normalizes metabolism and it should be used during intoxications.

Also parsley contains selenium, thus, it has an anticarcinogenic action. Lithium, that was discovered in parsley, has a sedative action that relieves during depressive states. In short, parsley is a must if you suffer from a number of diseases. As you see, this article contains much information on parsley and its medical properties.

If you want to learn more about parsley nutrition you can refer to the links on our site. Also you can calculate your diet taking into consideration the amount of calories you would like to gain. Some food sites provide visitors with menus containing food value, so, if you want to keep fit, you should pay special attention to this information. No matter what exact type ofdiet you might prefer to stick to, you cannot do it without parsley.

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