The Miracle of Tempe

Tempe has many advantages. Especially, against diseases. Many diseases can be cured by Tempe, Such as :

1.  Curing Diarrhea

Highly nutritious, cheap food turned out to be diarrhea. As quoted by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (14-10-2010) products from soybeans contain certain materials that can prevent bacteria from sticking penjangkit disease in the bowel wall. Thus the results of studies of food microbiologist from the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands Petra Roubos.

According Roubos, Tempe is a 'sort of moldy soybean cake and yeasty'. Some circles have long claimed that tempe can treat diarrhea. Roubos wanted to prove whether it is right. He put a piece of tempeh in intestinal cells that have been bred. It turned out that Tempe could complicate disease bacteria penjangkit stuck in these cells. Attachment of bacteria is the early stage of infection that causes diarrhea.

With the provision of tempe, weight gain will increase malnutrition and diarrhea are healed in a short time. Processing soybeans into tempe will reduce levels of raffinosa and stakiosa, namely a compound causing symptoms of flatulence (bloated stomach).

2.  Against Free Radicals

            In the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, tempe mentioned have the potential to be used against free radicals, which can inhibit the aging process and prevent degenerative diseases (atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer, etc.). In addition Tempe also contain antibacterial substances that cause diarrhea, lowering blood cholesterol, preventing heart disease, hypertension, and others.

3. Improving Quality of Cereals

High nutritional quality that allows the addition of tempe to improve the quality of cereals and tubers. Daily food dish consisting of rice, corn, or tiwul will increase the quality of nutrition when added tempe.

A piece of fried tempe (50 grams) is sufficient to improve the nutritional quality of 200 g of rice. Foodstuffs-rice mixture tempeh, corn-Tempe, cassava-tempeh, in 7:3 ratio, it is good enough to be given to children under five.