Ginger may help reduce obesity and fatty liver disease

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Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root, or ginger, is widely used as a spice and folk medicine.

It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems about one meter tall bearing narrow leaf blades.

Raw ginger is 79% water, 18% carbohydrates, 2% protein, and 1% fat.

In 100 grams (a standard amount used to compare with other foods), raw ginger supplies 333 kilojoules (80 kilocalories) of food energy and contains moderate amounts of vitamin B6 (12% of the Daily Value, DV) and the dietary minerals, magnesium (12% DV) and manganese (11% DV).

This Health & Medicine Lab video talks about how ginger may help reduce obesity and fatty liver disease.

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