Ginger is a food full of incredible benefits and properties.

Ginger is probably one of the most popular medicinal plants not only for its use in the kitchen as a condiment and flavoring, but also for the incredible properties that it brings, reason why became 2,000 years ago one of the ingredients main in Traditional Chinese Medicine, where it is common to use as a traditional remedy in a wide variety of disorders and diseases, and where it is customary to make the popular ginger tea.

The incredible properties of ginger

Wonderful Nutritional Wealth

As we mentioned before, ginger provides a wide range of different essential nutrients, many of them essential and fundamental in a varied and balanced diet being essential for our health and for the proper functioning of our body. Among these nutrients we can mention:

Carbohydrates: between 40 to 50%.
Fats: between 6 to 8%, mainly emphasizing the presence of essential fatty acids (oleic and linoleic).
Amino acids: arginine, leucine, asparagine, histidine, lysine, methionine, threonine, tyrosine, tryptophan, valine, glutamine and aspartic acid.
Vitamins: vitamin C and niacin.
Minerals: phosphorus, silicon, zinc, boron, chromium, manganese and cobalt.
Other nutrients: flavonoids and oxalic acid.