Benefits and History of Cloves
丁香。 在有史以来评出的百种最富含
多酚的
食物中位居第一。 每一百克含有一万五千毫克
。按克计算， 是黑巧克力的九倍
，蓝莓的二十七倍， 红酒的一百五十倍。
它们一度， 价格也同样昂贵。
近两千年前， 记载称汉朝官员
会在觐见皇帝开口前， 口含一粒丁香，这是最早的
口气清新糖。
1438年， 在牛津，一磅丁香要花一名木匠大师
八天的工资。 你咬下时舌头上的那种麻刺感
，来自丁香酚， 一种会让人麻木的化合物。
这就是牙医会用丁香油
治疗牙痛的 原因，
如今它仍用于一些
牙科粘固剂中。 而数据还在不断累积。
一项考察三千多种食物的研究发现， 丁香的含量最高
这批中的抗氧化成分含量。
一项牙科试验中，
自制丁香凝胶能明 显麻痹
牙龈 效果胜过安慰剂。
在实验室中， 丁香能阻止常见食源性细菌
生长。
早期实验室研究表明，丁香酚 可能有助于缓解
炎症。所以或许该重新把丁香加入
你的香料
架。
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Original transcript (English)
Cloves. Number one of the hundred richest polyphenol foods ever ranked. Fifteen thousand milligrams in every hundred grams. Gram for gram, that's nine times dark chocolate, twenty-seven times blueberries, and a hundred and fifty
times red wine. And once, they were priced like it. Nearly two thousand years ago, records say Han dynasty officials held a clove in their mouths before speaking to the emperor, the original breath mint. In 1438, a pound of cloves in Oxford cost a master
carpenter eight days' wages. That buzz on your tongue when you bite one, that's eugenol, a compound that numbs. It's why dentists reached for clove oil for toothache, and it's still in some
dental cements today. And the numbers keep stacking up. A study of over three thousand foods found cloves had the highest antioxidant content of the lot. In one dental trial, a homemade clove gel numbed gums
noticeably better than a placebo. In the lab, clove stops common food bacteria from growing. And early lab research suggests eugenol may help calm inflammation. So maybe it's time to add cloves back to
your spice rack.
