Diet: agar-agar, a really smart marine gelling agent
By swelling in our stomach, agar agar protects us from overweight and diabetes. Zoom on this 100% natural ally of our health, effective and easy to cook!
• Agar-agar: a really smart marine gelling agent!
Extracted from a small red algae, agar-agar is a natural vegetable jelly which has the particularity of swelling in the stomach upon ingestion. Star of the traditional Asian and vegan diet, it is a natural appetite suppressant, but not only.
- What health effects?
In addition to its satiety effect, which is very valuable for maintaining a healthy weight without restraining your appetite too much, agar-agar has anti-diabetes and anti-cholesterol action. With a 0 glycemic index (GI), it avoids raising the blood glucose level, a challenge for all diabetics or pre-diabetics. Made up almost exclusively of insoluble fiber, it captures some of the sugars and fats in the meal in order to eliminate them naturally, which further reduces the assimilation of calories and lowers cholesterol and triglyceride levels. It therefore also preserves cardiovascular health.
- How to use it?
Since agar-agar has no particular taste, it can be used as a natural additive to any sweet or savory recipe. It is simply a powder that you only need to dilute in the liquid in the preparation of custards, terrines, jams, ice cream ... It is on cooling that it gels. But it can also be used in a hot preparation (including tea, herbal tea, soup) without modifying the consistency as long as the temperature does not drop below 40 ° C.
- What precautions?
The only precaution, take advice from your doctor because the properties of agar-agar can sometimes interfere with those of drug treatment.
- Where to find it: in supermarkets, organic shops or on order in pharmacies, in the form of individual sachets of powder dosed at 1 or 2g.
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