What Is Okra?
This therapeutic vegetable is grown all throughout the tropical and warm milddistricts around the globe for its stringy fruits or “pods”. Okra can be consumed as a vegetable. Okra aka “Lady’s finger” is in with the Malvaceae (mallows) family and is named deductively as Abelmoschus esculentus.

Why Should You Incorporate Okra In Your Eating Regimen?



Brings Down Bad Cholesterol: Okra (soluble fiber pectin) helps lower the serum (bad) cholesterol and avoids atherosclerosis.

For Pregnancy and Fetal advancement: Okra helps prevent unnatural birth cycles, promotes development of the fetal neural tube, and prevents imperfections in the tube.

Skin Detoxifier: Okra (Vitamin C, fiber aids toxic) is utilized to repair body tissues, heal psoriasis, eliminate pimples, and other skin conditions.

Treats Genital Disorders: Okra treats genital issue like syphilis, extreme menstrual bleeding, leucorrhoea, dysuria, and gonorrhea.

For Asthma: It can shorten the duration of asthma manifestations and prevent deadly attacks. Okra is high in vitamin C, has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

Reduces Colon cancer risk: Okra cleans out the intestinal tract with its insoluble fiber, diminishing the danger of colon-rectal tumor. The high cell reinforcements in Okra aid in securing the immune system against unsafe free radicals and avoid transformation of cells.

Immunity Booster: Okra is a decent immune booster food high in antioxidants and vitamin C. Other vital minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, battle against unsafe free radicals and support the immune system.

Rich Fiber Source: Okra helps regulate digestion, and regularization of entrails with its filaments.

Rich Protein Source: The superb wellspring of top notch vegetable protein and oils, cystine, advanced with amino acids like tryptophan, and other sulfur amino acids content are contained in the seeds of Okra.

Lively Hair: Okra is an extraordinary hair conditioner, battles dandruff and lice, scalp cream for dry and irritated scalp and adds a youthful sheen to your hair.

Treats Sun strokes: Okra eases general misery, weakness, and fatigue.

Relieves Constipation: the mucilaginous and rich fiber content in Okra cases helps enhance stool mass, binds poisons, guarantees simple solid discharges, encourages fitting assimilation of water, and lubricates the intestines with its common purgative properties.

Probiotics: Okra facilitates the propagation of probiotics and helps the natural production of vitamin B complex.

Diabetes: Okra regulates glucose levels. The kind of fiber found in Okra i.e. Eugenol, aids in settling glucose by controlling the rate at which sugar is ingested from the intestinal tract. Learn how to make okra water in the video below.

Feeds Blood Network: Okra helps build the structure of blood vessels.

Respiratory soother: The antioxidants in okra along with a large content of vitamin C are effective in treating respiratory problems and has shown to reduce the frequency of asthma attacks in patients.

Counteracts Anemia: Helps red blood cell production.

Prevents Obesity: the Okra’s fiber helps in keeping you full, and the copious supplements sustain you.

Ulcers: The same mucilage in okra which helps ease digestion can also heal and relieve the pain of stomach ulcers.

Strong Bones: Okra is an excellent source of vitamin K which is vital for reinforcing bones and counteracting osteoporosis.

Bigmillz

very educative post. keep it up

warrisdis? Idonbelievit

Me like it, i cook it alot,(the Image below isnt mine,i saw it somewhere) ,okra is also one of the cheapest way to cook a soup,as tomato don turn gold.

kenkenn:
very educative post. keep it up

thanks

ogbunu say him be rich man property everyday the thing they increase in price so i stick to okro...

lt takes cares of stomach related issues and it really works for me.

I love okra But we don't cook it at home (family) due to some flimsy excuses. I do eat I eat when I was in school. When I get a wife she would be cooking it for me at twice in a week. Okra in India is like meat in Nigeria!