Amla....
Actually, i was just having an amla today and it made me think as to what is this little strange fruit all about. So, i did a bit of research work and compiled a few facts. Here are they:-- Amla a.k.a. Indian Gooseberry a.k.a. Emblica Officinalis has various common names like amalaka, nelli, aonla, aola, amalaki, dharty, aamvala, aawallaa, emblic, emblic myrobalan, nellikai, nillika and usareekai.
- It is by far the richest natural source of anti-oxidants like vitamin C, emblicanin (A & B), punigluconin, pedunculagin, super oxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX).
- Amla contains 160 times the amount Vitamin C as contained in an apple, 25 times as in an Orange and 35 times as in lime juice.
- The fruit is cooling, refrigerant, diuretic, laxative, antibacterial and rejuvenative.
- It is used in Ayurveda as a cardiotonic, antipyretic, antidiabetic, respiratory, cerebral and gastrointestinal tonic.
- It is found to raise the total protein level and increase the body weight due to positive nitrogen balance.
Well, this was a surprisingly informative post for my blog. One more thing, if you try to eat an amla, have a sip of water after each bite...The water seems to be very cool and sweet...Try it....hehehe
posted by Cloudy Musings @ 7:21:00 AM
5 Comments:
very informative. and agree the drinking water after eating amla- i do it a lot. amla makes great pickles - cut & put salt & dry in the sun- great digestive
even cook with jaggery/ sugar etc to make good side dish for roti etc.. tastes good with rice also infact
take up the tag on my blog okay on 9 wierd things about urself- i am sure u will have more than that:-)
people those who use well water for drinking sometimes plant the amla tree closer to the well or they put the big trunk of thr amla tree in the well water. the water becomes sweet that is the concept.
this is also called poor man"s apple. as it is low in price but more energy than an apple.but both apple and amla costs the same. but no of fruis in a kg is comparitively too different
i really dnt lik amla at all bt still its quite an informative post n got me thinking y u dint take up med science its all abt dis stuff u knw...
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