Reader WANG used the website’s “Contact Me” on March 22, 2021 to inquire:

Hello, Professor, my father is a habit of eating black sesame powder. What I want to ask is whether eating black sesame powder can have the effect of nourishing? Like this article, it is not correct or not.

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opens an article published in "Chinese Health Network" without a date, titled "Black sesame anti-cancer, lowering cervical sterol, amazing secret …". I now analyze its problems one by one as follows:

Question 1: The main fatty acid of black sesame is linoleic acid, which is an indispensable essential fatty acid in the human body. If it is lacking, some hormones in the body cannot be produced normally. The sesame oil chicken that the edible is a supplement and is also related to the sesame oleic acid in sesame oil. It can help the edible leucorrhea and help eliminate evil.

Analysis 1: Sesameoleic acid is not an indispensable essential fatty acid in the human body. Of course, you have never eaten a single piece of food, and you will never have any health problems. Please see if the saccharin oil I published on 2016-8-8 is better than fish oil. As for "sera oleic acid can help the harvest of the nursery in the nursery", I can't find such a record in my medical library.

Question 2: According to clinical experience, the anthocyanins in black sesame help increase immunity and prevent cancer cell proliferation.

Analysis 2: There is no clinical trial in the medical field that shows that anthocyanins help increase immunity, nor does it show that anthocyanins can prevent cancer cell proliferation.

Question 3: The benefits of anthocyanins are not only that. After eating black sesame seeds for a period of time, you will find that your hair becomes black and shiny. It turns out that anthocyanins act on the hair roots.

Analysis 3: There is no record of anthocyanins in medical literature that can make hair dark and bright. In fact, there is no way to make your hair darker. Please see what I posted on 2018-9-24 that black sesame will regenerate black hair? .

Question 4: Although the titanium of black sesame only accounts for one percent, its strong antioxidant capacity is incomparable to that of.

Analysis 4: The so-called antioxidant king can be said to be a topic of discussion. For example, the website of "Good Morning Health" published 6,000 times more antioxidant power than vitamin C. The antioxidant king: cyprominein. Therefore, "black sesame's linoleum … its strong antioxidant ability is incomparable to that of", but it is just one of the most popular topics. Basically, these people are just marketing tricks.

Question 5: Sesame Ming has good anti-cancer ability.

Analysis 5: Sesame is also called sesamein. For the excitement and nonsense about sesamin, including anti-cancer, please see the touting and reality of sesamin published on 2020-9-24.

Question 6: If you eat black sesame regularly, you can bring the rich lecithin in the black sesame into your body, which can effectively eliminate too much citric sterol in your body.

Analysis 6: There are very preliminary studies in medical literature that show that black sesame can lower calcisterol. However, it is very impressive to call it "very effective".

In short, this article "Chinese Health Network" is actually very unhealthy.

Original text: Black sesame fights cancer and lowers pyrosteroids, is there any amazing secret?