TIGERNUT PREVENTS HEART ATTACKS AND DIMINISHES THE CHOLESTEROL,
ACCORDING TO A STUDY.

R.P., Valencia

The tiger nut milk properties, mainly produced in The Comunidad Valenciana, pass for the diminishing of cholesterol, diminishing the risks of heart attacks or benefits for people who suffer arterysclerosis or renal insufficiencies, according to the last data showed yesterday for the Regulator Council of the Origin Denomination.

The one called “The freshest drink” it’s recommendable even for people who suffer high blood pressure, because its low content in sodium, and also provides big amounts of iron ore and magnesium bigger than the usual milk, which makes it beneficial for childhood, pregnancy and old age periods.

Likewise, experts affirm that is good for renal insufficiencies and helps to heal because the arginina increases the cellular linphocite.

The cultivation is kept

According to the Doctor MiguelBixquert, one of the responsibles of the study, thanks its content in oil acids, this drink is similar to the olive oil. Some of its beneficial effects just discovered are the diminishing of colon cancer.

The Comunidad Valenciana it is as well the main autonomy consumer of this product, because valencian population drink the biggest part of the 40 or 50 millions of litres per year that are produced. This region is followed by Cataluña, Madrid Community and Andalucía.

In the same way, the inform points that even the b town-planning pressure to which is the ground submitted, a total of 16 towns, the surface dedicated to the tiger nut cultivation has been maintained in the last years to 400 hectares. Nowadays in Valencia exist around 500 producers of tiger nut which its own Origin Denomination that regulates it.

LA RAZÓN