Sunflower oil

For most people, sunflower causes associations with the sun, because this plant is so similar to an ancient luminary. Indeed, even in ancient times, sunflower was worshiped, considering it a sacred flower, symbolizing wealth, fertility and health. Many legends and legends about him, one way or another, are associated with the solar aspect.

They learned to get oil from sunflower at the beginning of the 18th century in Europe, and in Russia only a hundred years later, since it was initially believed that the function of this large beautiful yellow flower was only decorative. Currently, sunflower oil is known almost all over the world. By the way, the beneficial properties of sunflower oil make it not only an excellent culinary product. It is also known as an effective inexpensive cosmetic and medicament.

Sunflower oil is the most important vegetable oil, which is of great national economic importance. For culinary purposes, it is used for frying and dressing various salads, culinary fats and margarine are made on its basis, without which almost no baking can do.

Benefits of sunflower oil

Many fans of alternative medicine use sunflower oil to prevent and treat a number of diseases. So, for example, the benefits of sunflower oil are obvious when eliminating dental and ear pain, migraines, accelerating the healing of skin damage. Miraculously, it affects the state of health for arthritis and rheumatism. Sunflower oil is successfully used for chronic diseases of the stomach and intestines, liver and lungs. This effective natural drug also serves as the basis for the preparation of various ointments for external use.

Sunflower oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids that are not synthesized in the human body, and the need for them is sometimes higher than in other useful elements. Due to these acids, the benefit of sunflower oil lies in the formation of membranes of nerve fibers and cell membranes, which, in turn, are able to remove harmful cholesterol. That is why sunflower oil normalizes the state of the walls of blood vessels and is considered as a preventive agent for atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.

Damage to sunflower oil

This product should not be abused in obesity, due to the high calorie content of sunflower oil (899 kcal per 100 grams). Doctors do not advise using folk recipes to cleanse the body using sunflower oil, because this can cause severe exacerbations of intestinal diseases. In general, when talking about the possible harm of sunflower oil, it should be noted that with its optimal consumption, adverse consequences are extremely rare.