GINGER
Vitamin and Minerals: Calcium, phosphorus, iron, aphrodisiac
How to consume: You can add ginger in your dishes as a metabolism booster besides its great taste.
You should try it in your drinks for a different taste. You can combine it with green tea and lemon to make your own fresh tea.
It is an amazing touch to your lemonade as well.
The characteristic odor and flavor of ginger is caused by a mixture of zingerone, shogaols and gingerols, volatile oils that compose one to three percent of the weight of fresh ginger. In laboratory animals, the gingerrols increase the motility of the gastrointestinal tract and have analgesic, sedative, antipyretic and antibacterial properties.Ginger oil has been shown to prevent skin cancer in mice and a study at the University of Michigan demonstrated that gingerrols can kill ovarian cancer cells. Ginger contains up to three percent of a fragrant essential oil whose main constituents are sesquiterpenoids, with (-)-zingiberene as the main component. Smaller amounts of other sesquiterpenoids (β- sesquiphellandrene, bisabolene and farnesene) and a small monoterpenoid fraction (β-phelladrene, cineol, and citral) have also been identified. (Wikipedia)
