Can pregnant women eat kelp?

The nutritional value of kelp is very high. It is low in calories, rich in protein, extremely rich in minerals, and has good medicinal value. Kelp is rich in iodine. Women can eat some kelp during pregnancy. Eating kelp has a good preventive effect on goiter and pregnancy-induced hypertension, and it can also lower blood lipids and blood sugar.

Kelp can enhance the body's humoral immunity and promote the body's cellular immunity. Eating it during breastfeeding can improve your own and your baby's resistance, enhance disease resistance, and strengthen your body. Kelp is also rich in calcium. Breastfeeding mothers can prevent osteoporosis by eating kelp. It can also allow the baby to supplement the calcium needed by the body through breastfeeding and prevent rickets in neonates. Kelp is rich in iron, which is the main raw material for making blood cells. Breastfeeding mothers eating kelp can not only prevent anemia, but also increase the iron content in breast milk. When babies drink this kind of milk, it is beneficial to their physical growth and development and prevents cretinism caused by it.

How to make stewed pig's trotters with soybeans and kelp: Ingredients: 1000 grams of cured pig's trotters, 1 piece of dried kelp, 150 grams of dried soybeans, appropriate amount of white vinegar, appropriate amount of salt, 1 piece of ginger, 1 segment of green onion, and 3 cloves of garlic. The kelp and soybeans should be soaked the night before, and the chopped cured pork feet should also be soaked the night before. Put the cured pork feet into the pot and boil for a few minutes then turn off the heat. Slightly crush the ginger and garlic cloves, cut the green onions into sections, and cut the kelp into pieces. Put soybeans, kelp, ginger, green onions, garlic cloves and white vinegar into the casserole and bring to a boil. Add the blanched cured pork feet and simmer over low heat for one and a half hours. After cooking for a while, remove the foam and soybean skins on the surface. Add appropriate amount of salt according to the saltiness and serve.

Eating kelp during pregnancy can reduce swelling and promote diuresis, improve immunity, promote the body's cellular immune activity, and promote excretion of body processes. Not only that, if women eat some kelp during pregnancy, they can not only supplement iodine for themselves, but also the fetus in the womb can get iodine supplement. Eating kelp during pregnancy can also prevent breast hyperplasia.