Benefits of Gelatin for health

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Many people use gelatin as a cooking ingredient but do not necessarily know all its amazing health benefits. Gelatin can provide a necessary amount of protein for the body, thereby bringing high value to health.

1. What is Gelatin?

Gelatin is essentially a protein, made by cooking collagen (a type of protein). Collagen is found in animals and is found almost everywhere in the body, but is most abundant in the skin, bones, tendons and ligaments.
Collagen gives it many health benefits, but normally it is difficult for us to eat collagen because it is often found in the inedible parts of animals. That's why we have devised a way to extract collagen from these organs by boiling them in water to create a human substance called gelatin.

2. What are the health benefits of Gelatin?

Gelatin is an incomplete protein because it does not contain all the essential amino acids. However, it also contains most of the important amino acids such as glycine, proline, valine...
In addition, gelatin also contains a small amount of vitamin and mineral elements such as calcium, phosphorus and folate. Thanks to the necessary ingredients for the body, gelatin helps bring benefits such as:
Improve bone health: There are many studies that have studied the effectiveness of gelatin in the treatment of bone and joint problems, such as arthritis, osteoarthritis. Helps significantly reduce symptoms of pain and stiffness caused by disease in the joints.

Improve brain function: In gelatin contains a large amount of glycine, the use of glycine significantly improves memory and increases the patient's concentration of attention. Additionally, glycine is one of the amino acids that has been studied in people with schizophrenia, and glycine supplements have been shown to reduce some symptoms of schizophrenia. Reduces symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Helps to lose weight and maintain weight: Because gelatin has no fat and few calories, it helps maintain weight. In addition, a high-protein diet helps to reduce appetite and keep us feeling full for a long time. Improves skin and hair: Helps bring positive effects to the skin, making the skin more moist, increasing collagen density in the skin and hair, reducing hair loss significantly, stimulating hair growth and increasing hair thickness. Improves sleep: The glycerin in gelatin has been shown to improve sleep. It helps to improve daytime sleepiness, so it's easier to fall asleep at night and less tired the next day. Prevention and control of type 2 diabetes: Due to its ability to improve weight, maintain weight thereby controlling blood sugar. Research shows that using glycerin reduces HbA1C levels after three months. Protects the digestive tract: Gelatin has been shown to help protect the intestinal wall from damage, minimizing common intestinal conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome. Reduce liver damage: Helps protect and enhance liver function, minimize damage caused by factors that are detrimental to the liver. Slows down cancer growth: A diet rich in glycine helps reduce cancer growth, prolongs life, and has been shown to reduce the size of tumors. This needs to be studied more closely in practice. Although the benefits are very high, there are some cases of allergy to gelatin that need to be avoided and sometimes gelatin also causes some unpleasant signs such as bloating, indigestion. Gelatin is extracted from animals, so it has a slightly unpleasant smell. In addition, subjects such as liver failure, heart failure, blood clotting disorder, kidney failure need to be used with caution.

3. How to make some dishes from gelatin

From gelatin can make many delicious and attractive dishes for the whole family.
3.1 How to use gelatin powder to make yogurt
Preparation:
Gelatin powder: 15g Condensed milk: 2 boxes Fresh milk without sugar: 1 liter Yogurt: 2 boxes without sugar. Necessary tools such as: Spoon, chopsticks, yogurt container, large glass jar. Method:
Mix about 15g of store-bought gelatin powder with a little warm water, pay attention to the water not too hot to avoid gelatin clumping. Put 2 cans of condensed milk into a glass jar, then add about 800ml of boiling water to the jar and stir well. Then pour in 1 liter of fresh milk, stir until the water is slightly warm, then add the yogurt. Be careful not to let the water get too hot, it will kill the yeast. Finally, add the bowl of previously mixed gelatin to the bowl and stir. Incubating milk: This is the most important step, putting milk in the yogurt container. Then put it in a sealed styrofoam box and cover it with blankets. Wait for about 6-8 hours to have a delicious and healthy yogurt dish.

3.2 How to make fruit jelly from gelatin powder
Preparation:
Gelatin powder: 10g Sugar: 50g Fruits of your choice. Tools such as: Spoon, jelly mold, vase, stove, pot. Method:
Put the amount of gelatin with about 30ml of warm water, stir well. Next, add about 200ml of water to the pot and boil on the stove. Then add the gelatin and sugar mixture, stir well and turn off the heat. Cut the fruit into small pieces and place them in a jelly container. Pour the mixture into the mold, then let it cool for a few hours to be able to eat. In general, from gelatin we can make many different dishes to enjoy.
Gelatin is essentially an animal protein, extracted by heating. There are many healthy ingredients in gelatin that have been shown to work through a number of studies. However, sometimes there are some cases where there is an allergy to gelatin that should be taken into account.

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