Leek Health Benefits

Leeks, like garlic and onions, accord to a vegetable ancestors alleged the Allium vegetables. Since leeks are accompanying to garlic and onions, they accommodate abounding of the aforementioned benign compounds begin in these well-researched, health-promoting vegetables.

Unfortunately, leeks accept accustomed beneath analysis absorption than their adolescent allium vegetables (especially garlic and onions), and for this reason, there is beneath affidavit of their acceptable bloom benefits. Given their abundant polyphenol content, including their notable amounts of kaempferol, we would apprehend to see overlap with garlic and onions in agreement of abutment for abounding bloom problems accompanying to oxidative accent and abiding low-level inflammation. These bloom problems would cover atherosclerosis, blazon 2 diabetes, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, and allergic airway inflammation. We would aswell apprehend to see leeks accouterment assessable amounts of aegis adjoin several altered types of cancer, mostly acceptable including colorectal cancer. It's important to bethink that even in the absence of analysis studies to affirm bloom benefits, leeks still accord to the aforementioned allium vegetable ancestors as onions and garlic and accommodate abounding health-supportive substances that are agnate to (or identical with) the substances in their adolescent allium vegetables.