Benefit of Traditional Soup of Seed Egg (Gnetum gnemon)

Benefit of Traditional Soup of Seed Egg (Gnetum gnemon)

Latin name or scientific name for seed egg (Melinjo) is Gnetum gnemon is famous for its delicious to be the vegetable component of  a traditional soup called "lodeh soup". Sprout and young leaves and the unripe fruit are components of the soup. Coconut milk and pepper make the soup hot and fatty increasing the nutrition of the food.

Most people probably know him as a raw material flakes with a bitter taste in particular. There are people who abstain egg for fear of uric acid. But, you know egg capsules are rich in antioxidants and can increase endurance.

Researchers from the University stock return rate that is equivalent to the antioxidant activity of egg capsules with vitamin C. The antioxidant activity was obtained from the high protein concentration, 9-10 percent of each seed egg. The main protein is very effective to eliminate free radicals that cause various diseases, such as hypertension, high cholesterol, blood vessel constriction, premature aging, etc.

Great potential contained in the seed egg or Gnetum gnemon make sure Tree egg is the perfect protein source used as a functional food supplement  (nutritious food for health), including to prevent and treat disease. Moreover, the egg capsules are easy to obtain.

Cheap supplements
Recognized until now there has not been an official study on the use of protein as a source of antioxidants egg capsules. In fact, antioxidant peptides containned in hydrolysed  Gnetum gnemon seed is very usefull, will be available as supplements as cheap and can be a safe consumed.

In contrast to the domestic market, Japan is eyeing antioxidant potential of these seeds Gnetaceae family. Researcher results on the isolation and characterization of antioxidant peptide from the seeds of the egg, making it one of the recipients of research funding .