Properties of pineapples

Besides its wonder taste and its unquestionable flavour it is one of the healthiest fruits because of its content of bromelina. This substance is a combination of three enzymes: bromelina, extranasa y ananasa. It is good for circulation because dissolves the blood clots and makes blood more fluid. This is a good way of avoid circulatory problems as thrombosis, heart attack, apoplexies, and at the same time reduce the blood pressure or hypertension.

Bromelina has the power of digest proteins that's why is so useful in the digestion process. A good piece of pineapple after meals let us digest food much better, helps stomach in their function and let us feel less full quickly, that avoid unpleasant secondary effects of heavy digestion of food.The composition of this enzyme is destroyed by heat and makes it not usable by the organism. Eating fresh fruit is the best way to take advantage of its properties.

This ability of digesting the proteins can be used in our kindness to eliminate micro-organism and parasites of our organism. That is why pineapple has a purifying function in the digestive tube and furthermore helps to eliminate bacteria.

Bromelina not only digests proteins but it is proved its ability to digest fat and is used in treatment of obesity. Its richness in fibre, pectin and vitamin C and its low caloric content help to do the same function.

Pineapple is a good diuretic. Bromelina, contains potassium that neutralizes sodium, coffee acid and arginine. All of them help to evacuate water from the body avoiding with its action the creation of edema or retention of fluids inside the organism and are also useful, besides losing weight, in affection related to retention of fluid in the organism such as: gout, uric acid, arthritis, etc. The same is used for treating cellulites, a disease produced precisely for the inability of cells for draining adipose tissue.

Pineapple is very useful in pain reducer because of its anti-inflammatory properties. Eating pineapple is a fact in the diet of sportsmen to avoid inflammation of tendons (tendonitis) or the sinovial sacs (bursitis). The habit of adding pineapple to salads, mixed up if possible with papaya that also contains bromelina, helps to overcome articulator pain. Back problems, sprain, or dislocations could be less painful and get better before time with a good diet rich in pineapple.

There some countries that consider pineapples as a great aphrodisiac.