Those housewives who know what a sweet pepper is useful for, try to include it in the diet almost every day. The variety of shades of this vegetable helps to decorate any dish, make it festive and appetizing. At the same time, the beneficial properties of sweet peppers make it one of the most important vegetables for our health.
How useful is sweet red pepper?
The benefits and harm of sweet peppers, like any other product, is due to its composition. It contains:
- vitamin C. Its dose in pepper surpasses any citrus, making sweet pepper a leader in ascorbic content. Only 40 g of sweet red pepper, and the body will receive a daily dose of this vitamin;
- vitamin P, or rutin, which contributes to the improvement of the walls of blood vessels;
- provitamin A, necessary for vision. One pepper contains about a third of the daily dose of this vitamin . However, it is worth remembering that this vitamin is absorbed only with the help of fat. Therefore, it is best to eat sweet pepper in the composition of salads dressed with vegetable oil;
- alkaloid capsaicin, improving the work of internal organs, enhancing appetite, diluting blood, which is the prevention of blood clots;
- lycopene and anthocyanins, which have the properties of antioxidants, fight cancer and prolong youth.
However, the benefits of sweet red pepper can only be available to those who do not have allergic reactions to red vegetables. Otherwise, you will have to enjoy the taste of green pepper, which does not give an allergic reaction, but does not have all the beneficial properties of red sweet pepper.
Among the harmful properties of sweet red pepper is the individual intolerance of this vegetable , which can manifest itself in poor digestion of pepper by the gastrointestinal tract and lowering of pressure after its use.