Apples can lower blood cholesterol
The mechanism by which apples lower cholesterol is:
1. Apples themselves do not contain cholesterol.
2. They can promote the excretion of cholesterol from bile.
3. Apples contain a large amount of pectin, which can prevent the reabsorption of bile acid in the intestine, thereby weakening the enterohepatic circulation and increasing cholesterol excretion.
4. Apples can decompose acetic acid in the intestine, which is beneficial to the metabolism of cholesterol.
Apple is good for cholesterol metabolism
Apples are also rich in vitamin C, fructose and trace elements such as magnesium, which are all beneficial to the metabolism of cholesterol.
Therefore, patients with coronary heart disease should eat more apples.
Apples can lower blood pressure
After investigating tens of thousands of people in rice-producing and apple-producing areas, Professor Ryo Sasaki of Hirosaki University in Japan pointed out that people who eat more than 3 apples a day can maintain a low blood pressure.