Discover the Health Benefits of Homemade Broth

The health benefits of broth are amazing. It’s one of the best foods we can give our families. Broth has been a around for a long, long time and is used all over the world.

There is a reason broth is so darn popular. It’s like a magic elixir of vitamins and minerals just begging to be taken.

Broth contains minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and other trace minerals all required for good health.

Chondroition sulphates and flusosamine, found in expensive arthritis and joint pain supplements, are found in meat based broths and come from the cartilage and tendons when broken down over a long period of cooking.

Gelatin, from the bones, makes broth thicken or congeal when cooled. It contains 2 amino acids in very large quantity. Thus it is not a complete protein, but helps the body to efficiently use protein from other sources.

Gelatin even aids in digestion because of it's ability to attract and hold liquids. It attracts digestive juices to the food in your system.

The head and feet or hooves, respectively, hold the most gelatin and thus make the best, most nutritious broth. However, they are hard to find and often frowned upon in the West. If they are hard to get or not what you fancy skip these parts, they are not essential.

Stock from a powder or out a box does not offer these same benefits. Many contain manufactured monosodium glutamate or MSG, a chemical that uses the receptors on the tongue to enhance flavor by fooling the body into thinking something is meat.

I'm not going to lecture you about manufactured MSG's health risks, I'm just telling you it's one more thing we can easily take out of our diets by cooking at home.

Broth is not stable at room temperature, so anything in a box for your pantry is either not as nutritious as it could be (flavored, thickened water without all the nutrients you want) or full of preservatives that are used to keep it, umm, 'fresh.' Broths in the store also tend to be overly salty and quite bland.

Since broth is not safe to store at room temperature and only lasts in the fridge for a few days the fastest and easiest way to preserve it is to use your freezer. The nutrients in homemade broth are worth ever inch of freezer space they take.

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