There are weight sesame seeds and black sesame seeds, and the white sesame seeds are better for eating and the black sesame seeds are better as raw traditional Chinese medicine. Sesame seeds are also a good choice for cooking oil. In daily life, we are familiar with sesame seeds products, such as sesame seeds oil and tahini. It is not recommended and science to eat the sesame seeds as a whole, because there is a hard cover around the seeds. If you get more nutrition of sesame seeds, it is better you to pulverize the sesame seeds.
Sesame seeds contain rich fat and protein as well as vitamin. It is worthy to point out that the linoleic acid contained in sesame seeds has special function to cholesterol.
Each 100 g sesame seeds contain:
Calcium (mg) | 780 | Phosphorus (mg) | 516 | Potassium(mg) | 358 |
Sodium (mg) | 8.3 | Magnesium (mg) | 290 | Ferrum mg(mg) | 22.7 |
Zinc (mg) | 6.13 | Selenium (mg) | 4.7 | Vitamin E (mg) | 50.4 |
Protein (g) | 19.1 | Cholesterol (g) | 0 | Fat (g) | 46.1 |
The sesame seeds are also widely used in cuisine and materials of cosmetic.