Oats are really good as rumored?

With prices up to hundreds of millions of VND per kilogram, bird nest is considered one of the most expensive foods on the planet that many people jokingly call 'white gold'.

Made from the saliva of a small bird nest that lives in caves in Asia called swiftlet, bird's nest is considered a very healthy food with high nutritional value, even a component. indispensable in some types of beauty cosmetics, according to traditional Chinese medicine books. In addition, it is also an effective medicine to help fight aging, prevent cancer, enhance sexual desire .

Bird's nest costs up to hundreds of millions VND per kilogram.

However, in a recent article in the International Food Research magazine, two Fucui Ma and Daicheng Liu experts from Shandong University (China) said modern science could not find and explain. Get great healing abilities of swallow nest soup.'The effects on the body and its true therapeutic value are still a question of medicine,' they said.

Swiftlet nests live in limestone caves around the Indian Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, northern Australia and Pacific islands. Males are responsible for building nests on vertical cliffs. So, harvesting them is a very dangerous process that requires perseverance, a bit of recklessness.

Proteins with essential amino acids are the main ingredients found in bird's nest. Besides, it also contains 6 hormones (including testosterone and estradiol), carbohydrate compounds, small amounts of lipids. Many previous studies have shown that swallow nest also contains many substances that can stimulate cell division process, promote growth and tissue regeneration, limit infections such as influenza. Even so, not everyone's body reacts well to those ingredients. In many cases, this is the cause of anaphylaxis, a serious allergic reaction that threatens people's lives.

So far, there is still so little scientific research going deep into its biological function that most are still based on information from traditional Chinese remedies dating back hundreds of years.

Reference: Livescience