Health Benefits of Saffron

Welcome to Electro Store. This blog post is all about the benefits of saffron. While saffron has not been extensively studied, it boasts impressive health benefits. Many individuals add it to food, but it can also be taken as a supplement. Here are some potential benefits of saffron.

• Saffron contains many plants derived chemical compounds known to have anti-oxidant, disease-preventing, and health-promoting properties.
• Their flower pistils compose several essential volatile oils, but the most important of them is all issafranal, which gives saffron its pleasant flavor. Other volatile oils in saffron are cineole, phenethenol, pinene,  borneol, geraniol, limonene, p-cymene, linalool,  terpinen-4-oil, etc.
• This colorful spice has many non-volatile active components; the most important is α-crocin, a carotenoid compound that gives pistils their characteristic golden-yellow color. It also contains other carotenoids, including zea-xanthin, lycopene, α- and β-carotenes. These are essential antioxidants that help protect the human body from oxidant-induced stress, cancers, and infections and act as immune modulators.
• The active components in saffron have many therapeutic applications in many traditional medicines as antiseptic, antidepressant, anti-oxidant, digestive, and anti-convulsant.
• This novel spice is a good source of minerals like copper, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, selenium, zinc, and magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cells and body fluids that helps control heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese and copper are used by the body as co-factors for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is essential for red blood cell production and as a co-factor for cytochrome oxidases enzymes.
• It is also rich in many vital vitamins, including vitamin A, folic acid, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin C, which are essential for optimum health.