The medicinal properties of herbs and other plant materials are used by official medicine of all countries of the world. In many household plots you can find an interesting plant, about which you undeservedly forgotten - this is Jerusalem artichoke.
He came to Europe in 1605. The French expedition to Canada brought home several kilograms of tubers of this plant. In the Russian Empire, culture was spread only in the Baltic, where pig breeding flourished. In the central zone of Russia, the plant has not found wide distribution.
The value of Jerusalem artichoke with diabetes
Tubers of plants contain a large percentage of inulin (up to 17%). It is a natural polysaccharide that is a precursor of fructose. Inulin is widely used for diabetes. Insulin-dependent patients can live without pricks if they eat the roots of Jerusalem artichoke as food.
Digested, inulin breaks down to fructose, which is very necessary for people with diabetes, especially type 2. With regular use of Jerusalem artichoke along with a decrease in the level of glycemia, an improvement in visual function is observed, which is often impaired in these patients. For healthy people, including relatives, children with diabetic patients, Jerusalem artichoke is an excellent prophylactic. Eating fructose instead of sucrose reduces the likelihood of this disease.
In addition to the high concentration of inulin in the plant is also a lot of fructose, glucose. In many countries they began to make sweets, drinks not based on sugar, but using topinambur. It is beneficial for the body and cost effective. Fructose is absolutely harmless in diabetes mellitus, so patients with this disease need such products.
Jerusalem artichoke is a unique plant in its properties because it shows ecological self-defense and remains clean even in disadvantaged areas. Its tubers, as a rule, do not contain nitrates, since they simply do not accumulate them from the environment. Thanks to certain chemical compounds in the composition, they turn harmful substances into safe for human health.
Also, Jerusalem artichoke does not absorb radioactive elements and heavy metals such as lead and nickel from the soil and atmosphere. That is why Jerusalem artichoke is non-toxic and does not cause allergies. It gives a quality product regardless of the state of the environment.
The undigested part of Jerusalem artichoke is excreted from the body and along with it carries away a very large amount of heavy metals and all kinds of harmful substances, especially cholesterol. People with obesity, which often accompanies diabetes, at the same time develops atherosclerosis due to high levels of lipids. Jerusalem artichoke in this case is very useful both as a drug and as part of a diet.
Glycemic meaning of Jerusalem artichoke
GI, caloric content and fat content of topinambur are low. This means that the product is dietary. It can be included in a low-calorie diet, which is recommended to adhere to patients with diabetes and obesity.
| Calorie, kcal | 62 |
| B (proteins, g) | 2,12 |
| W (fats, g) | 0,12 |
| (Carbohydrates, g) | 12,85 |
| Glycemic index | 50 |
The carbohydrate content of topinambur is quite high. But in this case, such a composition does not make the product harmful or undesirable in diabetes. Inulin is presented here as a carbohydrate - the substance that cures this disease.
How to cook for diabetics
Jerusalem artichoke is a vegetable with universal use. It can be used in cheese, boiled, fried, steamed, baked, used in salads, with sauces. In general, handle the same way as potato tubers. Jerusalem artichoke can marinate, sour, like other vegetables, as well as dry and grind into flour. With any culinary treatment, it does not lose its value.
This vegetable can be eaten even in liquid form. It produces a unique coffee drink, which is both tasty and healing. Thin plates poured boiling water for a few minutes. Then give drain and roast in the oven. Crispy pieces are ground and brewed as regular coffee. Someone thinks that raw tubers look like radishes, others like walnuts. Boiled Jerusalem artichokes resemble cauliflower.
Vitamin Salad
To prepare a salad from a tuberiferous plant is necessary immediately before use. The ground vegetable grated darkens very quickly and loses its attractiveness. The simplest version of the vitamin dish is a salad of tubers of Jerusalem artichoke and carrots. All vegetables wash, peel, grate, and then combine in a single dish.
Add vegetable oil, salt. It is undesirable to fill with vinegar, since diabetes mellitus is always associated with the pancreas, which is harmed by such products. You can add citric acid, apples. Carrots are allowed in the salad a bit, as this vegetable is sweet and with diabetes mellitus it should be limited. Grate just enough so that you can decorate the dish with bright orange splashes.
If every day there is such a salad, then with milder forms of diabetes, you can even give up medications prescribed by a doctor. Of course, you should gradually reduce the dosage (number of injections), replacing them with topinambur food.
Delicate Casserole
Grate 3-4 root grated. Put in a baking dish, grease it with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. At the same time prepare a mixture of 2 raw eggs (beat), milk (2 tablespoons), semolina (4 tablespoons) and flour (4 tablespoons). Pour the chopped tubers with the resulting mass. Bake on low heat in the oven for half an hour or more until cooked.
Pickled Jerusalem artichoke
There are different culinary processing technologies of Jerusalem artichoke. One of the most accessible and simple - fermentation of tubers. Wash, cut into plates, put in an enamel or glass container. Pour with saline water. Then put the dish somewhere near the heat, to undergo the fermentation process. When the pickled Jerusalem artichoke is ready, move it to where it is cool: in the fridge, on the balcony. Vegetable can be served with any meat dishes as a side dish.
Healing remedies from Jerusalem artichoke
From root vegetables can be prepared various dosage forms. Any of them will help reduce glucose levels, improve the state of the cardiovascular, visual and other body systems.
Jerusalem artichoke juice
Well wash the roots, using a brush of high rigidity. Cut into several pieces, grind in the bowl of the blender. Squeeze the resulting mass through a sieve. Freshly squeezed juice is not prepared for future use, but immediately drunk. Pre-dilute with clean boiled water in a 1: 1 ratio. Drink before each meal in half a cup.
Leaf infusion
Jerusalem artichoke leaves, like tubers, help diabetics lower their blood glucose, cholesterol and toxins. To do this, it is enough to brew tea regularly from dried or fresh herbs and drink it in the right quantities.
To provide yourself for the whole day with hot vitamin tea, you need to use a thermos. Pour into the container two spoons of tea leaves, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water. After three hours, you can start taking a health drink. This should be done on an empty stomach, before each meal.
Alcohol tincture
Vodka extract of Jerusalem artichoke is used for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, as well as related diseases. It can be prepared in two ways, using as a raw material:
- Flowers Fill the glass container with raw materials, pour in vodka.
- Leaves. It will take 500 grams of raw materials per liter of moonshine. Insist two weeks.
Tincture is used to improve the cardiovascular system, normalize blood counts, cleanse the liver and the whole body.
Dried artichoke
Peel the tubers, cut them into thin plates, spread out in a thin layer. Drying will last 4-5 days, after which the pieces can be crushed. Dried topinambur brewed tea, prepare compote. Powder is used as dietary supplement, washing it down with water.
Dried roots can be in the oven. For this they:
- Wash and clean.
- 10 minutes in water with salt and soda (1 l / 8 g soda).
- Cut and dry for 3 hours in the oven at + 60 ° C.
- Periodically inverted.
Then crushed into powder and placed in storage in a glass container.
Possible harm and contraindications
In people prone to flatulence, Jerusalem artichoke can cause increased gas formation. This happens due to the high content of fiber and inulin. Therefore, these people use the product better thermally treated, and not raw. Also Jerusalem artichoke is contraindicated with individual incompatibility.
Carefully treat the Jerusalem artichoke should be in the presence of stones in the bile ducts. Excessive consumption of the product may cause them to move. If the stones are large, they can clog the biliary tract.
Jerusalem artichoke is a very valuable culture, for which it is imperative to find a place in your backyard. It blooms very long and pleases the eye. It is possible to dig out curative and nutritious tubers as needed, keeping them in the ground until the very spring.
