Plums, while having an excellent taste, can also be beneficial to health. These high-yielding fruits have remarkable properties.
Having a low calorie content, plums contain a sufficient amount of substances necessary for the normal functioning of the body.
Among these are: pectins, flanovols, anthocyanins, carotene, vitamins E and B, ascorbic acid, potassium, iron, copper and zinc.
There is evidence that eating plums helps to reduce blood cholesterol and improves liver function, with the exception of infectious hepatitis.
But the main benefit of plums is their beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract.
Dietary fiber in plums helps digestion, and its mild laxative effect improves the process of defecation, thereby preventing the formation of constipation and intestinal atony.
Plums help cleanse the intestines if inflammatory processes occur there.
Official medicine has not turned away from plums either. The pulp of these fruits is included in laxatives.
Consumption of plums may be contraindicated in the acute stage of hemorrhoids, intestinal obstruction and perforated ulcers.
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