The researchers compared this group with another who was added to their diet with black and green cardamom, to study changes in the level of the heart, blood vessels, liver and metabolic responses.
They noted that adding black cardamom to the diet improved metabolic markers more effectively than green cardamom, which may cause heart and liver problems.
The researchers emphasized that the mice wich were fed black cardamom “showed remarkable reversals of diet-induced changes, with decreased visceral obesity and total body fat mass, improved systolic blood pressure and decreased triglycerides.”
Conversely, rodents wich were fed green cardamom experienced “an increase in visceral adiposity and total body fat mass, and accelerated damage to the heart and liver, without consistent improvement in metabolic markers.”
Among the advantages of cardamom, besides stimulating the digestive system, is that it is a diuretic, which helps the body to get rid of water retention, and is useful for those who suffer from indigestion.
