Best quality celery is fresh, crisp and clean, of medium length, thickness and density with good heart formation and branches that are brittle enough to snap easily.
Eating celery as well as consuming celery oil and celery seeds helps to lower blood pressure by relaxing the smooth muscles on blood vessels.
Chomping on as few as four stalk of celery a day provides enough of the active ingredient a compound known as 3-butylphthalide, to reduce blood pressure.
Diuretics are often prescribed to treat both high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, which involves serious fluid buildup in the body.
Celery seed has been shown to have diuretic action, which supports its traditional role as a treatment for congestive heart failure.
Celery has been shown to lower blood cholesterol. It contains high levels of antioxidants, and enhances activity of white blood cells.
Celery is good for heart
