Bran is a product of grain cleaning and grinding. For a long time, bran has been used as an additive to animal feed. However, now the benefits of bran for the human body have been proven and the product is widely used in dietary nutrition.
What are the bran?
Wheat bran is most often mentioned when it comes to healthy eating. In fact, the assortment is wide enough. On sale you can find bran buckwheat, rice, barley oat, rye, millet. This allows you to significantly diversify the diet.
Different bran differs in composition, but they all share one common quality. Bran contains a huge amount of fiber, minerals and vitamin complexes.
The benefits of bran
The fiber content in bran reaches 80%. This is undoubtedly a useful quality, since coarse fibers allow you to cleanse the intestines as quickly and efficiently as possible without disturbing the microflora of the organ. In addition, fiber absorbs accumulated toxic substances.
When deciding to use bran in your diet, do not forget that this is a fairly high-calorie product. 100 g of bran contains 165 and more kcal. Therefore, it is recommended to eat no more than 30-35 g of a useful product during the day.
Bran contains carbohydrates, fats and vegetable protein. Including, they contain unsaturated and saturated fatty acids. The product contains large amounts of macro- and microelements: sodium, magnesium, iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, chromium, zinc, copper, etc. The significant content of vitamin E and the group of B vitamins allows a person to strengthen the immune system and thereby reduce susceptibility to infectious diseases.
Many scientists agree that the use of bran in the diet is necessary. Refined milled grain is devoid of most of the beneficial properties. In essence, flour made from cereals is a "dead" product, since almost 90% of the valuable substances contain the shells and germs of the grains, which go to waste.
With regular use of bran, a person's appearance is significantly improved. The skin acquires a healthy color, the hair begins to shine, the nails become strong. Within a few days, the functionality of the intestines is normalized, constipation recedes. Bran allows you to improve metabolic processes, reduce the concentration of cholesterol. Even official medicine recommends the use of bran in the presence of obesity, hypertension, atony of the gallbladder, atherosclerosis, dyspenia of the bile ducts, prostatitis.
Contraindications to the use of bran
However, bran can not be used by everyone. It is forbidden to enter them into the menu with exacerbation of peptic ulcer, colitis, gastritis, enteritis. In the presence of a chronic form of the disease, the use of bran is indicated only after consultation with a gastroenterologist.
