What is Black Ginger?

Black Ginger (Black Ginger), belonging to Zingiberaceae (Zingiberaceae), Kaempferia L., is produced in Southeast Asia, mainly Thailand and Laos, and is a crop with high medicinal value. Although it is also ginger, black ginger belongs to a different genus from the ginger we see every day, and its physiological functions are also different.

What we usually use for cooking is called "ginger", which belongs to the genus "ginger". Its characteristic components are gingerol and gingerol, and its main functions are improving blood flow and sweating. It means ginger.

Turmeric looks similar to ginger, but its color is darker than ginger. Ginger is light yellow, while turmeric is dark yellow. It belongs to the Curcumaceae family. Its characteristic component is curcumin. Alzheimer's disease (dementia) prevention.

Black ginger belongs to the genus Kaempferum, and its characteristic components are poly methoxy flavonoids, whose main effects are anti-oxidation, vasodilation, and anti-allergy.

Functional components of black ginger - poly methoxy flavonoids

Black ginger can be made into tea and various foods among people to improve blood flow, enhance vitality, resist obesity, and resist metabolic syndrome; some areas also use black ginger to nourish and strengthen, improve energy, improve blood sugar, restore energy, and improve blood sugar. circulatory system and digestive system.

Human Efficacy Test of Black Ginger Extract

Improving vascular aging: Silent information regulator 2-related enzyme 1 interacts with Noggin and transcription factors in various signaling pathways, and participates in processes such as neuroprotection, cell aging and apoptosis, glucose and lipid metabolism, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Its regulatory function on genes. People begin to age from blood vessels, from low blood vessel elasticity to arteriosclerosis. Black ginger extract can improve insulin secretion, improve sugar and lipid metabolism, inhibit inflammation, and oxidative stress, inhibit adipose tissue hypertrophy, and promote muscle cell differentiation, thereby improving the aging of blood vessels and maintaining the health of blood vessels.

Inhibit the accumulation of body fat: Visceral fat is extremely harmful to the human body. Taking a certain concentration of black ginger extract can effectively inhibit visceral fat, and the body weight can also be well controlled. The reason may be that through the improvement of insulin resistance, and then improve Glucose metabolism and lipid metabolism. In a 14-week human trial, the blood sugar level, neutral fat, body weight, and waist circumference of the subjects showed a significant downward trend at 7 and 14 weeks.

At present, black ginger extract is a relatively common food in Southeast Asia, but it needs to be further popularized and promoted in China, so as to better fight against the health problems caused by aging.