If you want a soup that is loaded with nutrient and best for you in a world that is burdened with so much diseases, black soup is one of your best choices.
We are introducing our own amazing and delicious black soup recipe to you. It is one soup that you will desire over and over again after eating it.
The fragrance that comes from it is enticing and you will want more of black soup after a first experience.
Indeed, your soup is very important when you eat swallow. What it offers your body is most important.
Basically, the satisfaction that you derive from a swallow meal is over 50% reliance on the soup.
Sometimes, you can even overeat when your soup is so delicious. Black soup is one of such delicious soups.
Black soup is about the best soup you can enjoy your swallow with.
In fact, you can eat just about anything with it.
Indeed, this soup is not just about how delicious it is.
Also, it contains different compounds that make it medicinal and able to offer you different health benefits.
Health Benefits Of Black Soup
Our black soup could be different from other ones you may have come across.
Basically, our black soup is meant to handle issues around infertility stomach upset, fungi and bacterial infection.
On its own, the consumption of this soup can help regulate a woman’s hormone. This lowers the effect hormonal imbalance could have on a woman’s fertility.
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Our black soup contains uziza, utazi, scent leaf, ugwu (pumpkin leaf) and garden egg leaf.
Due to the presence of the herbs and vegetables, here are the health benefits of black soup.
1. Black Soup Boosts Fertility
The soup is rich in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties that are beneficial to women and men.
Uziza and Scent leaf are high in antioxidants and this makes them able to prevent oxidation that could affect fertility.
According to studies, scent leaf, ugwu and uziza leaves may serve as a good scavenger of free radicals.
Also, they reduce the effects of oxidative stress in the body (1) (2) (3).
The plants have the ability to improve your gut health and the absorption of nutrients.
This ensures that nutrients from your food circulate to your organs adequately.
2. Anti-Cancer
There are increasing cases of cancer deaths, but the right diet is also able to prevent cancer from happen.
However, the right diet could inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
Black soup is one of such diets with compounds that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
The vegetables contain antioxidants that fight cancer.
According to a study, all plant and animal cells contain antioxidants that prevent damage due to the action of reactive oxygen species (4).
These herbs help control the activities this species that could cause cancer.
3. Improves Mental Health
Also, another study says scent leaf is highly effective in treatment of brain disorders (5).
According to the study, scent leaf (Ocimum gratissimum) is rich in phytochemical properties.
These antioxidants, the study says, help lower effect of oxidative stress on the brain.
4. Black Soup Treats Digestive Disorders
Your colon health is very important. For a great bowel movement, we will recommend that you try our black soup.
The vegetables in our black soup – uziza, ugwu (telfairia occidentalis) scent leaf and garden egg leaf – are amazing for digestive health (6) (7) (8).
According to studies, these leaves contain antioxidants that have scavenging power.
Together, they lower the effect of toxins in your body, improving the absorption of nutrients in your gut.
If you have ulcer, this soup will aid the healing. Also, another study says uziza leaf is able to improve your digestive health (9).
5. Boost Immune System
Vegetables contain vitamins and other compounds that boost your immune system.
According to a study, ugwu leaf is rich in minerals – iron, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium.
It also contains antioxidants – thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinamide and ascorbic acid.
Also, it contains phytochemicals – phenols.
Great for the management of cholesterol, liver problems and impaired defense immune system.
It contains vitamin A that is adequate enough to sustain human vitamin A requirement.
Also, it contains the amount of protein needed for hormone balancing; tissue repairs and regulation of the acidities of body cells and organs.
The plant contains high amounts of phosphorus. This makes it useful for keeping off onset of kidney diseases like kidney stone.
6. Boosts Eyesight
Due to the high amount of vitamin A in ugwu, the soup is also a good food that boosts eyesight.
increasing the consumption of this soup could lead to an improvement in eyesight for someone with defect.
7. Black Soup Is Good For Diabetics
Furthermore, people with type-2 diabetes can benefit from this soup.
They can use it to lower blood sugar level and manage sugar level. This is as a result of the presence of utazi and other leafs that have antioxidants.
Basically, this is the function of the phytochemicals in the soup.
Studies say this phytochemicals have a lot of properties and are widely used in the manufacturing of many pharmaceutical and nutritional supplements and food (10) (11).
8. Black Soup Can Boosts Blood Level
One of the very things people use ugwu for is to boost blood level. People squeeze it raw or blend it to make a juice from it.
Fortunately, there are studies that support this benefit that this leaf offers.
A 2011 study confirms that the leaf could boost blood level (12).
Therefore, a person recovering from illness could add this soup to diet and increase blood level.
9. Antibacterial And Antifungal Properties
Furthermore, uziza, utazi and scent leaf have been used in treatment of bacterial and fungal infection.
Again, another study says uziza contains a compound that can inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi (13).
On the other hand, ugwu contains properties that can give positive result against some common bacteria.
According to a study, extracts of ugwu show inhibitory effect on growth on some of the common bacteria in Nigeria (14).
These are E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus sp. and Salmonella typhi.
Also, utazi is amazing when it comes to some bacterial infections. A study highlights this benefit (15).
How To Prepare Black Soup
To try out this soup, get the vegetables that we mentioned earlier.
Make sure that the scent leaf is far less than other amount of vegetables. Too much f it could make the soup taste so sharp and unappealing.
The quantity depends on the number of persons that are to eat this soup and the number of times you will consume it.
By size, scent leaf should be same size with the garden egg leaf. The largest in size should be your ugwu and your uziza leaf.
Too much of utazi could make your soup too bitter.
Blend these leaves with your blender until they are smooth. Remember to add water while blending.
Add a little amount of water in your pot, then add your meat, fish, stockfisk and other protein.
Afterwards, allow to boil for few minutes. Add your blended vegetables, pepper, ogiri, crayfish and allow to cook for few minutes.
If your soup is not thick, you can thicken with any natural thickener.
Thereafter, allow your sop to boil for few minutes then it is ready.
Enjoy.
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