Benefits: health benefits of Thai Cooking!
Have you ever wondered if Thai food is good for you? Or perhaps, if Thai Food is truly spicy? To your surprise, not only Thai food is good, but it is also beneficial to your health! Also, Thai food is not spicy to the contrary belief!
The food at Thai Garden Restaurant is made with the freshest ingredients that is home-grown and free of pesticides, so you are guaranteed to be eating a fresh meal every time! Even down to our daily brewed Lemongrass tea, every dish served contain something that is beneficial to your health.
For example the Red, Green and Panang curry dishes contain coconut milk, an ingredient most people do not like because of the fat contained in the milk. However coconut milk is good for you. Some of the benefits from coconut milk are:
- lowers bad cholesterol (LDL), while promoting good cholesterol
- boosts immunity
- modulates metabolic functions
- provides valuable fatty acids which most people in the West are lacking
- fights ageing
If you like spicy foods, there is also a benefit to that. Chillies is known to help you sleep better, keep your heart healthy, and help maintain consistent insulin and glucose levels. Chilli is known to have medicinal purposes and has been used in many home remedies in the past, such as Tinctures and Skin Lotions.
The ginger, another prominent ingredient in our cooking, is known to:
- Help with Arthritis pain
- Has the same effect on blood clots as aspirin
- Lower cholesterol
- Soothe digestive problems
In our Tom Yum and Tom Kai soups, the coriander and fresh cilantro leaves are known to help protect the body from recurring infections as well as take out the metal that incurred in your body over the your lifetime. Eating cilantro regularly can help with skin maintenance. Cilantro contains caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid antioxidants which helps in keeping your skin healthy! It also has been proven that it can prevent skin cancer.
Another ingredient in our Tom Yum and Tom Kai soups is Galangal. Galangal has been used by the Chinese as medicine for many centuries since it is known to give the following benefits:
- alleviate abdominal discomfort and pain
- assist in digestion
- remedy vomiting, seasickness and motion sickness
- improve blood circulation in hands and feet
- treat diarrhoea
- fight inflammation, thereby treating arthritis
- treat ulcers and inflammation of the stomach
- cure the hiccups
The most noted ingredient of our restaurant is our lemongrass. Like all of the other herbs, the lemongrass is home-grown and put into the tea everyday. Lemongrass is known to help with flus and colds, fevers, headaches, abdominal pains and other stomach ailments, fungal conditions as well as arthritis! Whether it be from the Tom Yum or Tom Kai soup or our tea, the lemongrass is extremely good for you.
Our lemongrass tea is consisted of fresh lemongrass, jasmine, Pandan leaves and two other herbs to give you an all-in-one refreshing and beneficial cup of tea! There are testimonies of our customers who have tried our tea and feels relief of their cold and flu symptoms almost instantly! Our lemongrass tea has also help cured the cook’s arthritis pains!
As you can see, many ingredients in Thai cooking are beneficial to you! When you come to Thai Garden Restaurant, we guarantee that all of our dishes are made with these fresh ingredients to give you the optimal health benefits!