Gastrointestinal disorders, anti-inflammatory Diseases Beneficial Fat burner, overweight, appetite suppressant Le nopal
Nopal description
The nopal or prickly pear is a plant or more specifically a tree cactus that has the ability to reach up to five meters in height. The nopal is generally composed of cladodes, it is related to leaves, and very flattened racquet-like appearance associated with each other and covered with thorns. The snowshoes of the nopal have a branch appearance, to achieve a thick trunk at their base. The nopal has very small leaves only a few millimeters and the most ephemeral, they scatter all along the cladodes. The flowers of nopal are unilocular with a pistil decorated with a multiple stigma and whose color is between yellow-orange. As for the nopal fruit, it has more the appearance of a fleshy berry with many seeds inside, up to 300, and the fruit color can range from white to red through yellow. It is called perfectly edible under the name "prickly pear".
Nopal culture
The nopal originates from Mexico, it is so important in this country that it is part of the Mexican coat of arms. The nopal took such a boom because of its appearance, and by its invasive peculiarity, that it is found in cultivation or spontaneously throughout the Mediterranean basin, with Algeria, Morocco, as well as Tunisia, Portugal and Italy, Greece and Israel. The nopal does not stop only around this area, it is also found in South Africa near Madagascar, but also in Reunion Island, that of the Canaries, or Mauritius, and also in India as far as 'in Ceylon, and even in Australia. It should be noted that the nopal appreciates hot and sunny climates.
Nopal its composition
The nopal is a plant composed specifically with almost 50% of dietary fiber, insoluble such as mucilage, pectins and gum, as well as insoluble dietary fiber with cellulose, lignan and hemicelluloses. Nopal combines other important compounds such as amino acids with nearly 17 elements, 8 of which are essential. Vitamins are plentiful in nopal, with vitamin A, vitamins B1, vitamin B2 and vitamin B3, as well as vitamin C. Nopal also contains minerals, such as calcium and magnesium, sodium and phosphorus , but also iron and potassium which makes it a food whose components are without side effects on health.
Nopal and its medicinal virtues
Nopal has gained a world-renowned reputation for its slimming properties. Nopal slimming: Nopal is a cactus that has the ability to optimize slimming diets, due to these different components, especially its mucilage which plays an appetite suppressant or non-snacking effect of the fastest in action. Due to its fiber component, nopal has the ability to capture lipids and carbohydrates in the stomach and release them quickly, and those up to 20 its original weight.
Nopal other uses
Nopal is also used in cosmetics, with nourishing oils for the body, but also to make it a more popular liqueur, Ficodi. Nopal is apparently also used as a biofuel, as well as for fire protection in agriculture as a fire barrier and defensive barriers. Nopal can be one of the most remarkable foods on our plates.
Nopal helps treat: fat burner, overweight, appetite suppressant.