Edible Birds Nest Benefits

Edible Birds Nest of swiftlets is one among the major food supplements of a Chinese diet. It is a precious food product, which is eaten with great love.

Among the tremendous benefits of Edible Birds Nests, let us look at a few of them:

– Lungs get nourishment from Edible Birds Nests and hence, are relieved of many ailments that are caused due to contaminated foods and alcohol.
– The nest also dissolves phlegm and prevents cough, providing a clearing and nourishing effect.
– It is a proven effective medicine for treating and regulating weaknesses. Patients who are recovering from serious ailments can receive tremendous benefits from Edible Birds Nest because it boosts immunity.
– Edible Birds Nests contain rich collagen water-soluble protein that stimulates cell growth in the immune system and hence increases metabolism.
– It inhibits gastric acids and promotes circulation of blood in the body.
– It strengthens the heart and enhances appetite, which is again beneficial for recuperating patients.
If the Edible Birds Nest is consumed by pregnant women, it helps to stabilize pre-natal and post-natal stages and nurtures the fetus.
– Along with proven health benefits, Edible Birds Nest nutrition is also proven to maintain skin tone because of its constituents such as mucosaccharides.
– Edible Birds Nest contains anti-oxidants, which have detoxifying effects on the body.
– The epidermal growth factor of Edible Birds Nests stimulates reproduction and regeneration of cells.
– It is even helpful in curing lung cancer.
– The Edible Birds Nest has a sweet and mild taste, which has neither too hot nor too cold effects on the body.
– The Edible Birds Nests are proven to nourish the lungs, kidneys, and stomach.
– They are also helpful in aiding better circulation of oxygen in the body.
– Even if you consume the nests in large quantities, you will not see any side effects on your body.

Edible Birds Nest  Benefits

Edible Birds Nest Effects

The nests of Swiftlet bird have a lot of positive effects on our body. The health benefits of this unique creation by the little bird are tremendous:
1. Edible Birds Nest nourishes the lungs and prevents cough in the body. It also reduces pathologic changes that occur because of the ailments in lungs. Such ailments include blood in the phlegm, asthama, coughing out blood, sweating, bronchitis and low flushing.
2. Edible Birds Nest nourishes the kidneys, warms up the stomach and stops vomiting. It also treats upset stomach, retching, and borborygmus.
3. Edible Birds Nest contains various amino acids, which improve wisdom in children as well as infants. The amino acids also enhance physique and thinking ability during the stages of growth. It gives a rosy complexion to the kids and prevents the growth of pimples forever.
4. If the Edible Birds Nest is consumed by pregnant women, it helps stabilize pre-natal and post-natal stages and nourishes the fetus.
5. Edible Birds Nest is a natural food that increases production of saliva. The amino acids contained in it possess inhibitive and resistive effects for cancer of the esophagus, pharynx, liver, and intestines.
6. Edible Birds Nest helps endure the complications of radiotherapy and chemotherapy like dryness in throat, constipation, sore throat, and nausea.
7. Edible Birds Nest nourishes the skin; making it soft, supple, lustrous and elastic. It can be consumed by elder people to enhance their beauty. It also reduces wrinkles and has rejuvenating effects on skin.
8. Edible Birds Nest contains anti-oxidants, which have detoxifying effects on the body. Consuming Edible Birds Nest over a long period slows down the process of ageing.
9. Edible Birds Nest relieves from fatigue of work or studies and also enhances memory.
10. It also consists of elements that improve cardiac operations and reduce pressure on heart.
11. It is also very effective in the treatment f cirrhosis and Hepatitis-B.

Fake vs. Real Edible Birds Nest

Consumers’ Guide to Choosing Real/Natural Edible Birds Nests:

•Avoid Colored Edible Birds Nests

All colored (i.e., blood red, yellow, etc.) Edible Birds Nests are fake. All colored nests are ordinary Edible Birds Nests that have been dyed, resulting in excessive nitrite levels. (http://foodsafety.suencs.com/archives/18586). Some dishonest vendors apply red dye to their Edible Birds Nests in order to fetch higher prices. Nitrite is used as a preservative in curing meat, and to make meat redder. (http://foodsafety.suencs.com/archives/18686).

•Avoid Edible Birds Nests that are uniformly snow white.

The lower part of the nests is naturally darker than the body of the nests. Edible Birds Nests that are uniformly snow white most likely have been bleached with chemicals.

•Avoid snow white ‘wild/cave nests’.

Wild/cave nests are naturally darker than farmed nests as they contain higher level of impurities and debris. Snow white ‘wild/cave’ nests have been bleached with chemicals.

•Natural texture and fibers should be visible on the nest’s surface.

Natural/real Edible Birds Nests have dense texture on its surface. The texture is made up of noticeable irregular thick and thin fibers, the denser the better. The threads of the interior body should be loose and intercrossed. All Edible Birds Nest has to undergo feather and impurities removal process, thus creating tiny cracks in between threads. Therefore, a few cracks can be visible even on high quality Edible Birds Nests.
In contrast, fake and/or lower quality nests lack texture. Lower quality Edible Birds Nests are glued so as to lock up the water content, creating the appearance of dry-looking surface and thicker body. The glue makes it harder for the nests to be broken. Lacking texture, glue-treated Edible Birds Nest often has smooth and glossy surface, which is the result of the bonding of the gluing material and the Edible Birds Nest into a sheet.

•Natural nests have pleasant, elegant, egg like smell.

Natural Edible Birds Nest delivers a natural slight egg-like smell that intensifies after soaking. Fake Edible Birds Nests, on the other hand, (such as those made from pig’s skin or algae) do not deliver the natural egg-like aroma of real Edible Birds Nests. Fake nests have unpleasant odor, such as oily and/or algae smell. Lower quality nests that had undergone chemical treatment release unpleasant chemical odor after cooking.

•Feathers.

Minimal number of feathers should be found in soaked natural Edible Birds Nest. If there is none, chemical bleaching might have been applied on the nest.