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Parsley Supplies You With Unique Health Benefits

By Viola Woolcott

Parsley is nutritious, delicious, and vibrant in taste and has wonderful healing properties, which are often ignored in its role as popular table garnish. Parsley can be found all year round in supermarkets or even at your local greengrocer.

Being a biennial plant, parsley usually returns to your garden year after year once it is established. Its name stems from the Greek word meaning “Rock Celery”.

Providing much more than a decoration on your plate, parsley contains two types of exceptional components that supply you with unique health benefits, which are:

Volatile oil components including:

1. Myristicin
2. Eugenol
3. Limonene
4. Alpha-thujene

Flavonoids including:

1. Luteolin
2. Apigenin
3. Crisoeriol
4. Apiin

Parsley also provides us with an excellent source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C and folate as well as being a good source of iron, Vitamin E and dietary fibre and is a wonderful supplier of minerals such as potassium, magnesium, calcium and manganese.

Often very under-appreciated, Parsley is more than just a decorative garnish that accompany restaurant meals; it is a storehouse of nutrients.

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Filed under: Health and Diet on December 8th, 2007