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The benefits and harms of apricot are quite well studied in Chinese medicine, where the fruit is used as an expectorant and sedative. Unfortunately, there are some restrictions for lovers of this fruit, because of the high sugar content in the fruit, it is better not to eat it, diabetics.
Useful properties of apricots
If you eat 100 g of fruit per day, you can improve digestion and metabolism. It is especially important to include apricot in the diet of people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, and overweight.
Magnesium and phosphorus increase brain performance and improve memory. In addition, magnesium helps to quickly relieve high blood pressure. Therefore, apricot can be a good medicine for patients with hypertension. And calcium, which is also abundant in these fruits, normalizes neuromuscular excitability.
Apricot is a source of beta-carotene. This antioxidant can prevent the development of lung, throat, stomach, and esophageal cancer. To get the required dose of vitamin A, it is enough to eat a few apricots or drink 150 g of juice a day.
Apricot juice is easier to digest than fruit. It is very useful for pregnant women due to its high content of calcium and iron salts. It is very effective in dysbiosis and normalizes stomach acidity.
Dried apricots are also very useful. Dried apricots contain easily digestible carbohydrates and, like fresh fruits, are rich in vitamins and minerals. And dried apricots contain 6 times more potassium salts. This makes the fruit indispensable in the prevention and treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure. In case of kidney inflammation, they remove toxins from the body.
Fatty apricot oil is successfully used as a cough remedy for laryngitis, bronchitis, and even bronchial asthma.
The benefits of apricots are invaluable in the fight against anemia, due to the large amount of iron in the fruit, it is considered a good medicine for increasing hemoglobin.
Contraindications to eating apricots
Due to the tannins contained in the fruit, apricots have a laxative effect, which is hardly useful for people with gastrointestinal problems.
You should also remember about poisonous pits. The poison content in the kernels of the seeds is so high that it can cause serious poisoning.
For some people, a high concentration of sugar in apricot fruits will be beneficial, and for others, harmful; this feature of the fruit negates the use of apricots in diets.
