Cilantro
Cilantro or sowing coriander – an annual aromatic plant of family Umbrella with a spindle-shaped root. The plant blossoms in June-July, yields fruits in July-August, in more northern areas - in September.
Useful properties of cilantro are known to people already, at least, about 5 thousand years. Ancient Egyptians used a coriander both in cookery, and in medicine, put cilantro leaves in tombs of Pharaohs, considering that spice does the person immortal. In East Asia from seeds of a coriander the love herb prepared: exciting properties were ordered it.
The first mentioning of cilantro or coriander in Russia occurs in references of 1784, in works of the agronomist A. T. Bolotov. Gradually cilantro was entered into culture of mass crops in Russia: in 1830 columns Apraksin who took out seeds of "kolyandr" from Spain distributed them to peasants of the Voronezh province for disembarkation.
Today cilantro is widely cultivated in the North Caucasus, in the European part of Russia, in Ukraine and the CIS countries.
Useful properties of cilantro
Gastronomic and medicinal properties of a coriander impress: the vitamins C which are contained in spice, B1,B2,P, essential oils, carotene, tannins provide wound healing, cholagogue, protivogemorroyny, expectorant, antivermicular, laxative effects of cilantro.
Greens of cilantro are useful as fortifying means, being applied at diseases of a gall bladder, digestive tract, cardiovascular system. It is proved that the regular use of a coriander can promote treatment of gastritis, stomach ulcer and duodenum. The dish seasoned with several branches of cilantro will serve as the natural means clearing intestines of harmful bacteria.
Cilantro promotes improvement of appetite and process of digestion, improving process of digestion of heavy food, serves as the means recovering blood pressure and normalizing a dream.
Besides, the coriander is the most valuable antiscorbutic, and waste of cilantro is used as fodder product for a bird, pigs and rabbits.
Use of cilantro
From fruits of a coriander the essential oil used in cosmetology and perfumery for the purpose of giving to products of smells of a lily of the valley, a bergamot, a lily, a violet, a rose and many other plants prepares. After an otgonka essential oil is extracted in fat oil which then is used in soap manufacture and production of oleic acid - the substance applied in production of paints and varnishes. Besides, essential oil of cilantro is raw materials for citral aldehyde preparation – the medicine which is used at treatment of a keratitis, conjunctivitis, glaucomas and also elimination of cracks on nipples of nursing mothers.
Use in cookery
Young greens of cilantro in phases of the beginning of bolting and the socket are widely used as seasoning to meat dishes, soups and salads. Cilantro seeds also found the application: they are used as the spice flavoring and vitaminizing sausages, marinades, cheese, canned and fish meat, liqueurs, beer, confectionery. The extract of essential oils of cilantro is used in recipes of preparation of gins and some other alcoholic beverages.
Cilantro caloric content
Cilantro caloric content in a ground form - 216, 4 kcal. Nutrition value:
- Proteins - 3 g;
- Fats - 0 g;
- Carbohydrates - 54,5 g.
Contraindications
Despite numerous useful properties of cilantro, you should not abuse seasoning: the excessive use of a coriander can serve as a cause of infringement of a monthly cycle at women, a dream, weakening of a potentiality and memory.
It is at one time recommended to accept no more than 35 g of greens and 4 g of seeds of cilantro in food.
It is worth refusing addition of cilantro as seasoning to dishes to the people having gastritis with a hyperoxemia, coronary heart disease, thrombophlebitis, a hypertension, thrombosis, a diabetes mellitus and also the patients who had a myocardial infarction.
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