Powerful Black Cincau

Cincau plus brown sugar and the most delicious ice disantap during early summer. Although seen trivial, food is mostly used as traditional recipes made from leaf extracts cincau. Do not asked it, as consumers start from the bottom to the top. Also easy to find, as many are sold in traditional markets to supermarkets.

Cincau plant originally came from Asia and spread to India, Burma, Indochina, the Philippines and Indonesia. This plant can grow well in areas that have a height of 75 - 2300 m above sea level. Mesona palustris BL is the latin for black cincau. Included in the family Labiate.

Characteristics-characteristics, trunked small and slender, the tip of the stem to grow stem-stem small, there is a growing vine to the ground and some are vertical. Have the form of a pointed leaf, spired. The form of interest similar to the basil flowers pink or white keunguan. Well, from the leaves and stem produce this blackish green gelatin. Therefore, known by the name cincau black.

Cincau black presence in the recipe is very cold beverages are expected to promise the creation of solid colors and interesting contrasts, especially if black cincau is presented together with the other recipes such as fruit, sliced young coconut, and fro, cassava and other tape - other. As we can enjoy in the form of ice mixed.

But you know cincau not only tasty to mix drinks, behind the color of jet black, black cincau that have a lot of property.

Traditionally, the Indonesian people have been convinced cincau black for good health. Raw materials cincau black plant extract is tentative (mesona palutris) that has been dried. Tentative leaves contain enough nutrient value per 100 gramnya good, especially juka review of the mineral content and vitaminnya.

Of nutrition, cincau black food that is very minimal gizinya womb. Gynecology is the water, reaching almost 98%. Given that in the process pembuatannya added starch and minerals, black cincau contain a number of mineral and carbohydrate in the amount of tolerable.

No wonder so many people use black as cincau prescription food for the purpose of low-energy diet, either because of health reasons and to streamline the body needs. Cincau black can be eaten in the number of lots without worrying about fat.

However, although donations gizinya very small, have a black presence cincau property can reduce heat loss, in the summer, to prevent indigestion and reduce high blood pressure. Also suitable for those who want to lose weight. This is because the fetus has a black cincau carbohydrate, minerals (calcium and phosphorus), vitamins A, B1, C, the actual water that much.

Indonesian people themselves believe cincau black sabagai nutritious recipes penurun hot body, drugs Demand, for an upset stomach (nausea, stomach), diarrhea medication, cough medicine, prevention percernaan interference penurun and high blood pressure. Food remover refreshing thirst nan is also beneficial to health because the fetus is water soluble fiber (soluble dietary fiber) within it. In the body, water soluble fibers can bind sugar and fat, so useful to prevent diseases such as diabetes melitus, heart, stroke.

Meanwhile, in China and Taiwan, the black cincau in local language called hsian tsao is very popular for use sabagai medicine penurun and blood pressure medicine diuretik. In South Korea, cincau black mixed with the spices have been marketed as health food.

News brisk, if during this time we have known the antioxidants vitamin E as a quite powerful, unsuspected, the extracts have activity cincau black antioxidants that are far stronger than vitamin E.

Moreover cincau black is not expensive and easy to obtain, from traditional markets to supermarkets also have. Yuk, to create food from recipes cincau black