How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants and micronutrients? And the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties?
Sorghum is «The forgotten grain.» The United States is the main producer of Sorghum, «but it is generally not used to produce food for US consumers.» Instead, it is used mainly «a produce Livestock feeding, pet food, home construction materials … but it is a preferred grain for human diets in other parts of the world, such as Africa and Asia. » state a basic and eaten element for thousands of years, which currently makes it the fifth most popular grain grown After wheat, corn, rice and barley, hitting oats and rye.
Because sorghum is gluten without and «can be considered safely for consumption by people with celiac disease», we are beginning to see it «more and more used«As real human food in the United States, I decided to analyze how healthy it could be. As you can see below, already 0:59 in my video Is sorghum a healthy grain?he is Comparable to other grains when it comes to proteins.
Since when do we have to worry about obtaining enough protein? The fiber is what Americans are desperately poor video.
Micronutrient composition is relatively «irrelevant, in relation to other cereal grains.» As shown below and 1:15 in me videoYou can see how fee In minerals, for example.
Where sorghum glow It is its polyphenol content. Polyphenols are plant compounds and “their regular consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of a series of chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease (ECV) and neurodegenerative disorders. «It has also been demonstrated have «A protective effect … on mortality for all causes.» If you compare different grains, the sorghum really does it pull Go ahead, helping to explain why its antioxidant power is much higher, as seen here and 1:40 in my video.
Now, Sorgo get its granulated rear kick by fruits and vegetables, but when compared For other grains, a cereal for sorghum breakfast, for example, could have approximately eight times the antioxidants that an integer one based on wheat. However, what matters to us is not antioxidant activity in a test tube, but the antioxidant activity within our body.
Yes you extent The antioxidant capacity of your blood after eating regular pasta, rises a bit. If it replaces 30 percent of the wheat flour with sorghum flour, it does not rise much more. But, if he eats 30 percent of red sorghum flour paste, the antioxidant capacity in his bloodstream triggers approximately 15 times, as seen below and 2:22 in my video.
Red sorghum? Yes. In fact, there are Multiple types of sorghum, such as black sorghum, white sorghum and red sorghum. Below 2:31 in me video It’s like them look in the form of grain (including yellow sorghum).
Red sorghum and especially black sorghum have Extremely high antioxidant activity, comparable to fruits and vegetables, as seen here and 2:41.
The problem is that I cannot find any of the color sorghum varieties. I can connect and buy red or black rice, purple corn, blue or red, and purple or black barley, but red or black sorghum can be more difficult to find. However, White Sorghum is widely available for approximately four dollars per pound. He does it have Any «unique nutritional and promoting health attribute»? Is promoted as «an integral grain of underutilized cereal with the potential to help in the prevention of chronic disease,» according to a study title, but what is The «effect of sorghum consumption on health results»?
As you can see below 3:20 in me videoAn epidemiological study in China found Lower esophagus mortality rates in areas where more millet and sorghum were ate, compared to corn and wheat, but that may have had more to evident Fungal corn contamination than any benefit of the sorghum itself. However, it is possible. «Oatmeal are The only source of oats «, which give oatmeal some unique health benefits. In the same way, the sorghum, even the white sorghum, contains unique pigments known as 3-deexiantocianinas, which are Strong inductors of some of the detoxifying enzymes in our liver and can inhibit the growth of human cancer cells that grow on a Petri plate, compared to red cabbage, for example, which only has regular anthocyanine pigments. The white sorghum was not much worse than red or black varieties, which have much more than the unique 3-decaying, so it can be a general sorghum effect. You don’t know until you put it to the test.
Researchers found This sorghum suppresses tumor growth and metastasis in human breast cancer xenoinjuts. What does that mean? They concluded that sorghum could be used as «an economic natural cancer therapy, without any side effect.» We strongly recommend the use of [sorghum] As an edible therapeutic agent, since it has tumor suppression, migration inhibition and antimethasic effects on breast cancer ”for humans. However, xenoinjuto means human breast cancer implanted in a mouse. Yes, human tumors grew more slowly in sorghum extracts fed with mice and blocked lung metastasis. Yes, sorghum did The same for human colon cancer that, again, was in mice, but not necessarily not translated How human cancers would grow in humans, since not only these mice do not have a human immune system, just have Any immune system at all. They are raised without a thymus gland, which is where the immunity to fight cancer originates. I mean, how could you prevent the Mouse immune system from rejecting the human tissue directly? But this immunosuppression makes this type of mice models much more artificial, and is much more difficult to extrapolate humans.
And that is much of what see In Sorghum literature, in Vitro of Test tubes and Petri dishes, and rat data and mice. There has been «a critical piece of the puzzle» necessary to link laboratory data with real benefits in humans. Missing, that’s, until now. Fortunately, we now have human intervention studies, which we will explore below.
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