Eating green peas or matar in the winter season could provide us with plenty of benefits
Posted on: 04/Dec/2020 9:29:28 AM
One of the highly famous winter foods in India is green peas. Otherwise known as matar, green peas are small seeds and they are spherical in shape is a known fact. Rich in many nutrients, intake of green peas could provide us with many health benefits. Green peas have many nutrients such as carbohydrate, sugars, protein, vitamin C, dietary fibre, magnesium etc in them.
We could get these health benefits by consuming green peas in winter.
Weight loss:
Unnecessary calorie intake could be avoided by the presence of proteins in the green peas. Likewise, the digestive system health would be maintained by the presence of fibres in the green peas. It is believed that by the intake of green peas we could lose weight.
Good for heart health:
The presence of antioxidants plus others like calcium, magnesium, potassium in green peas could keep the heart health in good shape by controlling the blood pressure levels in us. The green peas with low fat content are cholesterol friendly and good for the heart.
Immunity gets boosted:
The presence of vitamin C in green peas would help improve the immunity. By consuming green peas with vitamin C we could avoid diseases.
Filling foods with proteins:
Being a good source of proteins, green peas are filling and it reduces the urge to have more calories.
Good for digestion:
The deleterious bacteria present in our intestines would get flushed out and our digestive health would be maintained by the intake of green peas having fibres.
