Diet and IBS
Melissa G. Hunt, Aaron T. Beck in Reclaim Your Life From IBS, 2022
Chemical sensitivity to the smell and taste of food can work the other way too. Artichokes have a compound in them that some people can taste and other people can’t. If you can taste it, artichokes have an exquisite flavor – sort of a hollow, sweet, aluminum taste that fills your whole mouth and palate. It’s hard to describe, but it’s incredibly delicious. But if you can’t taste it, artichokes will seem like a lot of effort to get a tiny bit of pointless, tasteless mush. This isn’t a moral issue or a question of maturity or a willingness to try new things. It’s a fluke of genetics. You’re either born with the ability to detect that chemical or you’re not. If you are a picky eater because you just don’t enjoy the taste or smell or texture of some foods, but you still eat a varied and balanced diet, don’t worry about it, you don’t have ARFID. And don’t let people bully you or tease you about your preferences.
Fruits, Vegetables and Tubers
Bill Pritchard, Rodomiro Ortiz, Meera Shekar in Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security, 2016
The leafy vegetables belonging to the Asteraceae are led by the lettuces (Lactuca sativa, L.sativa var longifolia, and L. sativa var crispa), chicory or endive (Cichorium endiva), and radicchio and some other varieties of C. intybus. FAOSTAT reports lettuce and chicory production in 101 countries and total production at 25 MMT. Some other less important leafy vegetables within the Asteraceae are: edible burdock (Arctium lappa); cardoon (Cynara cardunculus); and dandelion (Taraxicum officinale). Furthermore, this large family of higher plants also includes such crops as: the garland chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria); and the tuber-forming Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus). Globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus) with its edible flower parts is produced to the extent of 1.6 MMT with Egypt and Italy being prominent producers.
Coronary Artery Disease
Stephen T. Sinatra, Mark C. Houston in Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Back in the BC 300 era, the Greek philosopher Theophrastus described that artichokes were not only a delicacy but strangely an aphrodisiac as well. Artichokes were not introduced to America until the early 1800s when French immigrants brought them over when they settled in the Louisiana territory. Today, however, nearly all artichokes are mostly grown commercially in California. Though widely considered a vegetable, an artichoke is actually an edible immature flower bud from a plant in the thistle family.
The role of artichoke leaf tincture (Cynara scolymus) in the suppression of DNA damage and atherosclerosis in rats fed an atherogenic diet
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2018
Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic, Jelena Kotur Stevuljevic, Darko Cerne, Janja Zupan, Janja Marc, Zorica Vujic, Milkica Crevar-Sakac, Miron Sopic, Jelena Munjas, Miroslav Radenkovic, Zorana Jelic-Ivanovic
Current data inform us that the most common causes of death worldwide are atherosclerosis-associated diseases (Hansson 2005; Go et al. 2014), evidence suggests that common risk factors for atherosclerosis, such as hypercholesterolemia (Jandaghi et al. 2016; Yousefi et al. 2017), hypertension (Ardalani et al. 2016), obesity (Furukawa et al. 2017; Niemann et al. 2017), a sedentary way of life (Gomez-Cabrera et al. 2008) and smoking (Niemann et al. 2017), all increase the production of free reactive oxygen species (ROS) which leads to oxidative modification of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), proteins and lipids, causing changes in their regular functions (De Bont and Van Larebeke 2004) which can contribute to further escalation of atherosclerotic processes (Harman 1956). Attenuation of atherosclerosis development requires changes in life-style habits, use of certain drugs and often certain non-pharmacologic supplementation. Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L. [Asteraceae]), a thistle-like plant in the aster family, is well known for its antioxidant and plasma lipid-lowering properties (Rondanelli et al. 2013; Sahebkar et al. 2017).
Evaluation of the anti-atherogenic potential of Egyptian artichoke leaf extract in hypercholesterolemic rats
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2022
Samah Fathy Ahmed, Ekram Nemr Abd Al Haleem, Walid Hamdy El-Tantawy
Artichoke which is a plant that is cultivated over large areas in the Mediterranean region is proved to have abundant antioxidants. In the old days, people in Europe have used its leaves to enjoy healthy digestive and urinary systems. Nowadays, Switzerland and Germany use its leaf extract to cure dyspepsia. These extracts can be bought without a medical prescription in the UK as nutritious complements (Marakis et al. 2002). In this study, when the HCD treated rats were administered artichoke extracts, there was a significant decline in serum TG, TC, LDL-C, Al and an increase in HDL-C. These findings agree with the findings of Küçükgergin (Küçükgergin et al. 2010).
Preventive effect of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) in kidney dysfunction against high fat-diet induced obesity in rats
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2022
Maryem Ben Salem, Hanen Affes, Raouia Dhouibi, Slim Charfi, Mouna Turki, Serria Hammami, Fatma Ayedi, Zouheir Sahnoun, Khaled Mounir Zeghal, Kamilia Ksouda
Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is a medicinal plant around the world, especially in the Mediterranean area which traditionally uses as a food and prevents human health from different chronic diseases. This study indicated that artichoke and its extract could be useful as an antioxidant agent in the prevention and treatment of kidney disease associated with oxidative stress.
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