Apricot
Apricots are a plant fruit covered with seeds. They are medium-sized, with long-standing trees, pinkish-white flowers, a single-core fruit, heart-shaped leaves and pointed edges, and native China, Preferably the dry environment, but its cultivation suitable in the medium-temperature environment, and the cold environment, flowering in the spring, and ripen its fruits in the summer.
Nutritional value
The apricot grain weighs 35 grams on the following dietary information: fat 0.14, fiber 0.7, calories 17, protein 0.49, carbohydrates 3.89, and cholesterol and saturated fat.
Most apricot producing countries
According to 2009 statistics, the countries that produce apricots are Iran, Italy, Pakistan, Morocco, Japan, Syria, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Algeria, France, Ukraine and Egypt.
Benefits of apricots
Apricot has countless benefits:
Benefits for pregnant women
The apricot kernel benefits many pregnant women are:
- To protect her against the incidence of gestational diabetes, because it maintains the proportion of sugar in normal blood.
- Contains high levels of minerals necessary for fetal growth, and maternal health such as: potassium, silicon, calcium, phosphorus, iron.
- It protects against anemia, because it contains cobalt and copper.
- Helps to get pregnant.
- It protects against exposure to pregnancy problems such as constipation and hemorrhoids because they contain a high percentage of fiber.
Benefits of skin
The importance of apricot kernels for skin is as follows:
- Resists skin shrinkage, wrinkles.
- Make the skin fresh, shiny.
- Skin diseases such as acne are treated because they contain vitamin A.
- Soften the skin.
- Moisturizing the skin.
- Unify the pores of the skin.
- Enter into the cosmetics industry.
Apricot kernel has several other health benefits:
- Anti-oxidant, so it protects the body from cancer, especially lung cancer, skin cancer, and leukemia, because it contains beta-carotene.
- Protect your body from infectious diseases such as: colds, flu, and colds, because they contain vitamin C.
- Strengthens and strengthens the body’s immunity.
- Constipation is treated.
- Reduce body temperature when rising.
- Anemia is anemia, because it contains lots of minerals and vitamins.
- Maintains the health of the eye, and protects it from several diseases such as: night blindness, because it contains vitamin A.
- Protects the heart from heart attacks, and protects the brain from stroke.
- Reduce the level of harmful cholesterol in the blood.
- Facilitates digestion.
- Treat high blood pressure.