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Artichoke Recipes Cookbook! 289 Recipes!
Artichoke is one of the popular winter season, edible flower bud of the Mediterranean origin. Its use as a vegetable is well known since ancient times for its medicinal and health benefiting qualities.
Health benefits of Artichoke
Artichoke is low in calories and fat; 100 g of this flower bud just carries 47 calories.
Artichoke contains bitter principles, cynarin and sesquiterpene-lactones.
Fresh artichoke is an excellent source of vitamin, folic acid (17% of recommended daily allowance).
Fresh globes also contain moderate amounts of anti-oxidant vitamin; vitamin-C (Provides about 20% of recommended levels per 100 g).
It is one of the very good vegetable sources for vitamin K; provide about 12% of DRI.
It is an also good source of antioxidants such as silymarin, caffeic acid, and ferulic acid, which help the body protect from harmful free-radical agents.
It is also rich in B-complex group of vitamins such as niacin, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), thiamin, and pantothenic acid that are essential for optimum cellular metabolic functions.
Further, artichoke is rich source of minerals like copper, calcium, potassium, iron, manganese and phosphorus.
Additionally, it contains small amounts of antioxidant flavonoid compounds like carotene-beta, lutein, and zea-xanthin.
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