While some people eat it raw, some eat it cooked (in the form of sauce) and others make salad from it. The forms of eating the garden egg seem endless in our Nigerian society.
The garden eggplant apart from being a source of vegetables has numerous health benefits that are essential for the overall development of the human body and its acceptability cuts across religious, tribal, cultural, and ethnic groups in Nigeria, hence the wide usage of the garden eggplant.
Garden egg has a lot of health benefits which most people don’t know, garden egg is a type of fruit, and as we all know, fruits like garden eggs are very good for our body, but most people are unaware of the benefit they can derive from it. Garden egg among other fruits is beneficial and nourishing to the body.
This natural fruit is rich in vitamins. Garden egg provides the body with both soluble vitamin and water-soluble vitamins; they are rich in thiamin (vitamin B1) required for normal growth and proper functioning of the heart and Nervous system, and Niacin (vitamin B6) needed for cellular respiration.
More so, the Garden egg is one of the anti-cancer fruits that has been helping, for decades, to fight against cancer and other horrible diseases; it is not a must for you to develop cancer before you start looking for a remedy, hence the saying ‘prevention is better than cure.
In most African countries, this fruit is a highly valued delicacy and a constituent of African food. It also represents fertility and blessing and thus, not common to find it served during wedding ceremonies in some communities across the African continent.
No wonder, the Igbo Community in Nigeria can hardly do without eating garden eggs because of the health benefits derived from it.
In this article, naijassador.com will summarize seventeen health benefits of garden eggplant.
- A good source of dietary fiber
- flexibility of blood vessels
- Cardioprotective
- Regulate blood sugar
- Natural source of B vitamins like thiamin, niacin, B6, and pantothenic acid
- Cholesterol control
- Improves digestive system
- Low calorie good for weight management
- Good for skin and hair
- High in folate, manganese, Vit magnesium, vitamin C & copper
- A source of nasunin (a powerful and rare antioxidant for the brain)
- Bone strengthening minerals
- Improves blood circulation
- Beneficial for constipation due to high fiber
- Good for colon health
- Good amount of phenolic acid, anthocyanins, and flavonoids these antioxidants help protect the body from health risks, like aging, inflammation, and neurological diseases
