Pear Health Benefits
Pear Health Benefits.. Pear is a juicy, sweet and refreshing fruit with a lovely flavor-depending on the variety, that you can have as a dessert or a snack and it is available for many months of the year, which also adds to its amazing health benefits.
Pear contains quite a few vitamins, minerals and trace elements that are useful for a balanced diet. It can help the body get enough nutrients it needs.
Moderately calorific as it does not give more than 50 kcal per 100 g- a medium pear is 96 calories so it is fine for just about anybody, including those watching their weights.
Pear slows premature aging of your skin. Pear and especially its peel are rich in antioxidants as responsible substances that break down free radicals. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck Austria found that the chlorophyll of the skin and underlying flesh which gives the color to green pears gradually transforms into a series of active antioxidants.
Pear’s fiber content gives your body the ability to stimulate your bowel function effectively, by increasing the intestinal transit. So pears are great for you if you are suffering from constipation. For young children or for people with delicate digestive systems, it is best to choose varieties of melting juicy pears (not pears with grainy flesh), whose fibers are very well supported. Note that the peel contains more fiber than the pulp. Dietary fiber is important not just for the regulation of intestinal but for the cardiovascular disease prevention.
Pear improves your immune system. According to a study from the University of Illinois published this year, the soluble fiber stimulates the immune system of mice who were administered in their food have become less sick and recovered faster than their congeners fed insoluble fiber. This does not mean that the insoluble fiber is bad, as it activates the digestion and intestinal transit.
Pear lowers your cholesterol. The flesh of a pear is so smooth that it hides its fiber content. A medium-sized pear provides 5 grams or fiber, that is 20% of the recommended daily intake, 3 grams of which is soluble fiber, which lowers LDL or “bad” cholesterol.
Pear gives you energy. By incorporating a cup- 250ml sliced pear salad to your lunch, you get about 10% of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C, which consists of many benefits that facilitate the absorption of iron required to make the red blood cells.
Pear stimulates your gray matter. A medium pear contains 15% of copper that your nervous system needs every day. Copper ions act on neurotransmitters involved in synapse function – contact areas between neurons. However, your ability to learn and remember depends on the robustness of neural transmissions, reveals research conducted at the School of Medicine at Washington University in Missouri.
Pear reduces your risk of cancer. By having a medium-sized pear you will have provided your body with 8% of the daily dose of vitamin K – an essential clotting factor. Comparing the subjects of a study which absorbed the most and the least vitamin K, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota found that the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, was 45% less in the first group.
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