How to eat sesame oil
Release time : 11/02/2025 09:30:04
Sesame oil is also known as "sesame oil". In order to express their love for sesame and sesame oil, people respectfully refer to sesame as the "Queen of Oil Crops" and sesame oil as the "King of Vegetable Oils".
So how can I eat sesame oil to be healthier? Sesame has been known as a high-end food with a long life since ancient times.
There are two kinds of sesame seeds: black and white sesame seeds. White sesame seeds are better for food and black sesame seeds are better for medicine.
Because sesame oil made from roasted sesame seeds often has a strong aromatic smell, people call it "sesame oil" in northern my country.
In China, they call it "sesame oil."
In ancient times in China, sesame was also called "Hu Ma" and "Zhi Ma", so people named the sesame oil "Hu Ma oil" and "Zhi Ma oil". In Japan and Korea, they also call it "Hu Ma oil".
Sesame oil adds flavor, so a few drops can be added when making salads, at the end of stir-frying, or right before serving soup.
The amount was too much, and the aroma overpowered it.
In Southern China, people also like to dip in sesame oil and add chili sauce, fermented bean paste, and garlic when they eat hot pot.
Vinegar is also widely used in the medical field, and numerous applications have been documented in "Bencao Gangmu," many of which have been continued to this day.
Shi Zhen said: For medicinal purposes, black sesame oil is superior to white sesame oil.
Generally, it is safe for the average person to consume, and 2-4 grams per time is sufficient.
Patients with habitual constipation can benefit from drinking a spoonful of sesame oil before breakfast and dinner to moisturize the intestines and facilitate bowel movements. Alternatively, mixing sesame oil with honey can also be beneficial.
It is also suitable for consumption by individuals with conditions such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, constipation, and ascariasis-induced intestinal obstruction.
Vinegar is also suitable for people with heavy physical labor, those who smoke and drink alcohol.
Sesame oil, sesame oil made from roasted sesame seeds in the recipe, often has a strong aromatic smell. Whether it's cold salad, soup, or stir-frying, just adding a few drops can increase the aroma of the dish.
Here are two simple sesame oil recipes for everyone: 1. Sesame oil mixed noodles - Ingredients: Noodles, sesame oil, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, chopped green onion, minced garlic, chili oil. - Practice: Cook the noodles, remove them, shower with cold water, and drain the water. Heat sesame oil to a slight heat, add soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, minced garlic and chili oil to make a juice. Pour the mixed juice into a bowl containing noodles, sprinkle with chopped green onion and mix well. 2. stir-fried vegetables with sesame oil - Ingredients: carrot, green pepper, onion, minced garlic, sesame oil, salt. - Practice: Shred carrots, green peppers, and onions, and prepare minced garlic. Heat the pan with oil, add minced garlic and saute until fragrant, then add vegetables and stir fry quickly, and finally sprinkle with sesame oil and appropriate amount of salt to season.
dish 1: stir-fried kidney flower with sesame oil Raw materials: 1 kidney flower, 2 tablespoons sesame oil Practice: 1. Remove the fascia from the waist flower, soak in water repeatedly, and pick up.
2. Cut the waist flower into flower shapes with a knife.
3. Blanch in hot water, remove the blood, pick up, and drain.
4. Heat sesame oil, add kidney flower and a little cooking wine and cook for a few minutes to complete.
Features: Kidney flowers can reduce common waist soreness, lower abdomen and back pain during physiological periods! The waist flower must be soaked in water repeatedly to completely remove the taste, and the cooking time should not be too long, otherwise the waist flower will easily become smaller and hard, making the taste worse.
In addition, the cholesterol content of kidney flowers is also high, which can easily cause hyperlipidemia and obesity, so it is not advisable to consume too much! Dishes 2: Sesame oil and egg noodle line Ingredients: 1 bunch of noodle line, 1 egg, 1/2 ginger, appropriate amount of black sesame oil and rice wine, and a little low sodium salt.
Practice: 1. Pour a small teaspoon of black sesame oil into a hot pan, lay the eggs, and fry them into a poached egg for later use.
2. Ginger, peeled and shredded.
3. After boiling the water, add shredded ginger and eggs.
4. Add the noodles and season with a little salt.
5. Before starting the pan, add rice wine and black sesame oil to turn off the heat.
Sesame oil is suitable for consumption by the general public.
Just 2 to 4 grams each time.
Patients with habitual constipation can benefit from drinking a drop of sesame oil before breakfast and at dinner to moisturize the intestines and facilitate bowel movements.
It is also suitable for consumption by individuals suffering from conditions such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, constipation with difficulty in defecation, and ascariasis.
Vinegar is also suitable for people with heavy physical labor and smoking habits and alcohol addiction.
It has been found that women who are pregnant or breastfeeding can benefit from eating more sesame oil, which can help expedite the removal of blood stasis and replenish essential nutrients such as Vitamin E, iron, calcium, etc., thus enhancing immunity.
Especially in pregnancy and lactation, women should eat more sesame oil to better protect their health and promote metabolism.
At the same time, sesame oil does not contain any harmful components to human body and it contains rich vitamin E and more than rich suberin acid which has the function of reducing blood lipids, softening blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and promoting microcirculation.
Supplementing with vitamin E to increase ovarian hormone levels and enhance reproductive capacity, as well as to prevent miscarriage.
However, it must be noted that individuals suffering from dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, or diarrhea should avoid consuming a large amount of sesame oil.
The benefits of sesame oil include: 1. Anti-aging properties: Sesame oil is rich in vitamins E, which promote cell division and delay aging, making it particularly beneficial for older adults to delay the process of aging.
The lecithin in sesame oil has the effects of nourishing the skin, removing spots (mainly age spots), preventing hair loss and premature greying.
2. Protect the blood vessels. Sesame oil contains about 40% of unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid and palmitic acid, which can be easily digested and absorbed by the human body to promote cholesterol metabolism and help eliminate deposits on the walls of arterial vessels.
It can also prevent other components in the body from being damaged by lipid peroxides and reduce the accumulation of lipids in the body, which has a good effect on softening blood vessels and maintaining vascular elasticity.
3. For patients with habitual constipation, drinking a spoonful of sesame oil in the morning and evening on an empty stomach can help promote bowel movements.
4. Alleviate the Toxic Effects of Smoke and Alcohol: Individuals with smoking habits and alcohol addiction often consume sesame oil, which can alleviate the direct stimulation and damage to teeth, gums, and oral mucosa from smoke, as well as the formation of lung tar spots. Additionally, it has a relative inhibitory effect on the absorption of nicotine.
Drinking a bit of sesame oil before drinking alcohol can have certain protective effects on the mouth, esophagus, gastric cardia, and gastric mucosa.
5. To relieve coughing, drink a spoonful of sesame oil before going to bed, and then another spoonful after waking up the next day. This will significantly reduce the cough, and if continued for several days, it can cure the cough.
6. To protect the throat and enhance vocal cord elasticity, it is beneficial to consume sesame oil regularly. This can improve the flexibility and strength of glottal opening, effectively treating hoarseness and chronic pharyngitis.
If you experience hoarseness, fatigue in your vocal cords, or chronic laryngitis, drinking sesame oil can have a restorative effect and is beneficial for treatment.
7. For patients suffering from rhinitis and chronic rhinitis, applying sesame oil on the affected area of the nasal cavity with disinfected cotton balls can achieve immediate relief and completely eliminate the symptoms within two applications.
8. Protection of liver The new researches have been found that sesame oil has good therapeutic effect on acute liver disorder and fatty liver caused by carbon tetrachloride.
Sesame oil can rapidly lower blood alcohol concentration and ethyl glucuronide concentration caused by drinking, and it also has the effect of protecting liver.
Methods of distinguishing the quality of sesame oil:1. Water Test - Dip a spoonful of sesame oil into water, and if it is pure sesame oil, it will form a thin layer of large oil bubbles that then condense into several tiny droplets.
The oil has small and thick shards, which are difficult to spread.
2. Color recognition: Pour the oil-filled grapes into a container, and then pour it over the oil pan from a higher height. If the splashed oil is pale yellow, it indicates that there are vegetable oils mixed in the sesame oil. This is because true sesame oil has a red copper color, clear appearance, and a pleasant aroma, while generally machine-produced sesame oil has a lighter color than small-mill sesame oil.
3. Freezing Test: Pour in a little sesame oil into the refrigerator and freeze it. Take it out, put it on room temperature, pure sesame oil will quickly melt as a whole.
Low-quality sesame oil will melt slowly and a distinct hard heart will appear at the end of the melting stage.
4. Heat Identification: Place the sesame oil in a pot and heat it up. If the oil turns white after heating, it indicates that it contains pork fat.
If it turns clear after heating, it means that vegetable oil has been added.
If the mixture becomes cloudy after heating, it indicates that rice water has been added. Within a short period, sediment will appear.
5. Odor identification: Extract a small amount of oil from your hand and rub it; if the fragrance is pure, it's sesame oil.
It has a pungent smell, possibly contaminated with soybean oil.
If there is a spicy flavor, then there is vegetable oil.
6. The shake test for fragrant oil: Pour a small amount of fragrant oil into a bottle, gently shake it, and if the bubbles are clear and quickly disappear, it is generally pure fragrant oil.
If the bubbles are not transparent and appear yellow, and they dissipate slowly, then it is inferior sesame oil.
7. The taste of pure sesame oil is thick and fragrant, with a bitter aftertaste; whereas the taste of counterfeit sesame oil is bland and dry, lacking any aroma and has a glossy texture.
* The medical information provided in this text is for reference only.
In case of discomfort, it is recommended to seek medical attention immediately, with the diagnosis and treatment based on a face-to-face consultation.