The south Asian cuisine offers varieties of spices that not only entice your taste buds but are also very beneficial health wise. Black pepper, which can turn dull dishes into tasty delicacies, can also help you lose weight.
Black pepper is loaded with Vitamins A, C, and K, minerals, healthy fatty acids and works as a natural metabolic booster which makes it a storehouse of uncountable health benefits, including weight loss. It also contains piperine.
Adding up a little of it in your meal burns calories after eating for hours, prevents the creation of new fat cells and suppresses fat accumulation.
Here are a few ways suggested by dieticians and nutritionists to incorporate black pepper into your everyday diet.
Chew or swallow pepper directly:
Those who can tolerate the burning hot flavor of black pepper can consume 1-2 peppercorns directly every morning. This will rev up your metabolism.
Black pepper Tea:
Add a dash of freshly ground black pepper in your cup of tea.
Fruit salads:
Sprinkle it over fruit and vegetable salad: Use black pepper as a seasoning and simply sprinkle it over your favorite salad. This not only adds an extra flavor to your plate but also aids in weight loss.
Your everyday beverage:
Add it your everyday beverage: A pinch of black pepper powder over a buttermilk recipe or summer refreshing masala-mint-lemonade goes a long way in not only shredding extra pounds but also for a healthy gut and immunity.
Black pepper oil:
Black pepper oil: Add a drop of 100 percent pure black pepper oil in a glass of plain water and consume it before breakfast or else using it as a salad dressing is another option.
Pepper prevents new fat cells from forming. Pepper helps in reducing fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, and Cholesterol level in the plasma and lipid profile. It also helps in elevating the good cholesterol and reducing the formation of new fat cells in the body
