Open Sesame !

Open Sesame ! The Magic words that open the treasure cave in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The sesame seed has a long history in Eastern cuisines. In Asia you can find sesame in almost every cuisine, sesame seeds added to bread, baked into crackers, sprinkled onto sushi and salads. Sesame soup, sesame paste called Tahini, Sesame is so versatile ! I like the Japanese Goma-tofu (tofu blend with sesame paste), it’s so tasty !

Chinese cuisine like to used sesame oil in their dishes, you can have a delicious dim sum & sesame seeds balls. Most of the Korean cuisine used Sesame to marinate meat and vegetables. Sesame everywhere !

Women of ancient Babylon would eat halva, a mixture of honey and sesame seeds to prolong youth and beauty. It represents a symbol of immortality. External beauty Cleopatra secrets lies in the tiny little seeds of sesame!

Indian Ayurveda use sesame oil for massage and health treatments of the body. Ayurveda views sesame oil as the most viscous of the plant oils and believes it may pacify the health problems associated with Vata aggravation.

The mighty power in sesame, the seeds contains a nutrious emollient oil, all the while being very low in carbohydrate. They are extremely high in iron, calcium, manganese and copper. They contain the vitamins B1 and E and lignans, estrogen-like chemical that have skin plumping and anti oxidant effects.
Prof. recommended we should take at least 60 mg of Sesamin (the mighty molecule in sesame) daily.The unique content of Sesamin which are antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. Sesame seeds also contain phytosterols associated with reduced levels of blood cholesterol.

1 sesame seed contains 1% of sesamin means we should take equivalent to 6000 sesame seed daily ! Wow!

My confession of the day, actually I’m addicted to Black Sesame Ice-cream. Invented by Japanese I believed so. Should I eat it every day to fulfill the daily intake requirement as suggested by Professor ???

My pleasure … hmm … yummy