This little onion family member that you often see as a garnish on food, adds more than flavor and benefits your health in several ways.
Helps your Heart
Allicin in this herb helps the body reduce harmful cholesterol, preventing calcification of the arteries, and enhancing the blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body. Potassium helps prohibit heart failure, heart attacks, and high blood pressure.
Helps Your Skin
Beta-Carotene in chives helps to clear acne and keep skin smooth and spot-free. Antioxidants Vitamin C and E help prevent sun damage, improve the skin’s suppleness, and increase blood supply to the skin.
Helps Your Hair
The juice of chives helps hair growth and prevention of hair loss. Hair growth and thickness are improved when the scalp’s blood circulation is enhanced by antioxidants, vitamin C, germanium, and flavonoids.
Helps Your Vision
Chives are rich in vitamin A which improves clear and sharp vision. Antioxidants found in the green stalks help your vision and your optic nerve health.
Helps Body Detoxification
Removing toxins allows the body to work more efficiently.
Diuretic and antioxidant qualities in chives help the body rid itself of harmful substances. Chives help the liver with changing elevated enzymes to proper levels.
Helps Prevent Cancer
Anti-carcinogenic phytochemicals in the abundance of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants in chives aid in preventing cancer. They discourage the growth of cancer and help treat stomach, esophageal, and prostate cancers.
Helps Bone Integrity
Compounds in chives help the body keep the calcium obtained from other food sources, aiding bone wholeness. Mineral density and strong bones are supported by osteocalcin production, encouraging healthy bones and preventing osteoporosis.
Helps with Digestion
Iron, calcium, niacin, and potassium found in chives help digestion. Potassium aids proper absorption, helping improve the metabolism of macronutrients, and then the utilization of nutrients. Growth, energy, and cell repair are the results of digestion.
Helps Your Sleep
Choline and folate in chives help break down the homocysteine into the amino acid cysteine, playing an important part in sleep quality and mood regulation.
Helps Your Immune System
Vitamins A and C in chives help stimulate the body’s production of antibodies, protecting the body from diseases, and eliminating illnesses.