HEALTH BENEFITS OF ZOBO"

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Zobo drink is a familiar beverage. It is produced from Roselle leaves (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) and well known by Nigerian people. This bright red drink is loved both for every day and as a refreshment drink in parties. This drink has many advantages: available, affordable, tasty, refreshing and have a lot healthy benefits.

Fortunately, health benefits of Zobo gives nothing but natural touch, organic essence and fresh nutrients without any contamination.

Zobo is a water soluble anti-oxidant with huge amounts of vitamin C organic acids including citric acid, tartaric acid and maleic acid. It is an acidic polysaccharides and flavonoid glycosides as like delphinine and cyanidin. It has anti-hypertensive properties, anti-bacterial properties, enzyme inhibitor, high level of antioxidant.

Those nutrients and good essence contained at Zobo drink, particularly at Roselle leaf, work well to prevent and or cure some illnesses below:

a. High Blood Pressure, Constipation, Diabetes and Constipation. According to a research conducted by United States Department of Agriculture, Zobo drink is significantly effective for curing some disease and health disturbances ranging from high blood pressure or hypertension, diabetes and constipation. Particularly to the high blood pressure case, Zobo drink is effectively useful as it can lower the blood stream by ‘using’ its enzyme inhibitor which is able to block the production of amlysea. Amlysea itself is an enzyme which can break down complex starches and sugar.

This closely relates to natural essences contained in Zobo drink or its main basic leaf which is naturally sweet and rich in good nutrients including anti-hypertensive properties. Automatically, those essences could work together to control sugar level in the blood stream so that body metabolism as well as digestion system run well and properly.

b. Lost of Appetite

c. Fever, Cold and Infection
The richness of vitamin C in Zobo drink is naturally effective for curing as well as preventing fever, cold and infection. This was stated by Abimbola Ajayi, a nutritionist and director of Family Health and Nutrition.
d. Kidney Disease

People with kidney disease are advised to consume Zobo drink as it contains 15 to 30 percent of organic acid as mentioned above. The mechanism is all about the more ability of kidney to filter out some waste products such as the uric and oxalic acid. Those two wastes can form a sort of stone at the kidney and when it gets bigger, it would be excessively heavy.

However, it is advisable for them not put sugar in the liquid so that the natural essences of Zobo could well-preserved and not contaminated with other non-natural essences such as sugar as we find at regular market. A nutritionist say that the main advantage of local and original drink is because it is made through fermentation process producing microorganism that the good nutrients which already exist would increase more and more.

e. Cancer
Zobo drink could prevent cancer as it is rich with anti-oxidant essences. Consuming any food or raw materials rich with anti-oxidant would significantly strengthen the immune system especially in fighting free radical. As a consequence, body would be well-kept from various diseases, including cancer which regularly occurs as an impact of free-radical contamination.

Side Effects of Zobo
Beyond all of its good nutrients and function, it is not advisable for pregnant woman to drink Zobo drink as it can stimulate blood stream and make the menstruation comes then lead to the abortion. Breast-feeing women are also advised not to drink it as it can endanger the mother and her baby. Regular consumers should also not drink Zobo too much as continual consumption can give bad impact to their kidney.

Culled from #Health Page