Saffron - natural remedy against obesity

Overweight People May 1 have no excuse for failed diets: researchers at Tufts University, U.S., found that eating fully seasoned with saffron inhibits fat deposits.

Amazing properties of saffron have been discovered by scientists from the laboratory experiments. Thus, they found that Mediterranean plant origin contains a substance, curcumin, can stop the expansion of fat cells in the body. It acts directly on angiogenesis - the formation of blood vessels in normal or pathological conditions that allow growth and expansion of adipose tissue.


Besides that helps overweight people lose weight, it appeared that saffron contributes to lower harmful blood cholesterol, and improve hepatic steatosis (fatty liver).

Stigma, also called style (central part of a flower, female sexual organ). Approximately 150000 flowers are needed for one kilogram of dried saffron; typically, one would need

2000 m2 field area per kg harvest. Less expensive qualities include also the yellow stamina (male sexual organ), which do not have any taste of their own.