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Everybody knows that some products have salutary influence upon our organism. And one of them should be used in small amounts, and others on the contrary, in small dozes do not have any influence. One should be taken in the winter, and others - in the summer.

And the first product, which is strongly recommend to be added into a daily diet, is ginger.

For many people ginger is something exotic and unusual because it originates from Southeast Asia and Western India. By the way, India gives 100 thousand tons (half of world production).

Into the market ginger comes as pieces of rhizomes, ground, candied, covered with chocolate and as an extract for ginger beer. It is well combined with other spices and is a part of “curry”. Ginger is added in light premium beer.

Ginger is vitamin-rich C, В1, В2 and A, salts of magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, sodium, potassium and zinc. Its spicy and tart aroma is caused by volatile oils contained in it (1,2-3 %). Besides, ginger contains all irreplaceable amino acids, including tryptophan, threonine, methionine, valine, etc.

All these chemical elements contained in ginger, improve digestion, stimulate secretion of digestive juices.