Had Casanova known Korean Abalone 전복, would he have preferred it over Oysters?
Abalone is Korea’s super seafood, which is rich in nutrients such as arginine, taurine, alginic acid, fucoidan, and is more responsible for both health and beauty benefits.
NEW DELHI/SEOUL: The 18th century legendary lover Giacomo Casanova who was rumored to have had hundreds of romantic affairs during his lifetime, boasted that he would eat over 50 raw oysters for breakfast each morning to maintain his stamina and high level of libido to sustain his amorous desires.
Many scientists across the world including those from U.S. and Italy have confirmed Casanova’s theory that raw oysters are aphrodisiacs.
However then, probably Casanova was unaware of Korea’s super seafood Abalone (전복), which is rich in nutrients such as arginine, taurine, alginic acid, fucoidan, and is more responsible for both health and beauty benefits, says YANG, Hee-moon, Chairman, Dashimachonbok Fishery Corp., Jeollanam-do, South Korea. The company has recently introduced Korean Abalone in India.
What makes Abalone a super food for lover-makers is its incredible arginine nutritional content, he said by adding, “With over 10 times more arginine than oysters, a key ingredient in Viagra for sexual health, abalone is rich in arginine, supporting men’s health. Casanova who was of the view that eating oysters daily helped his stamina and heightened his passionate lifestyle, would have preferred Abalone over oysters if he knew about it at that time.”
Dashimachonbok Fishery Corp has been exporting Abalone to 11 countries including USA, Japan, China, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan, Australia, UAE, Malaysia, New Zealand, Thailand and Hong Kong. India is the latest entrant as the 12th country on its list.
ROH Kyoung Hwan, Head of India Operations, WANDOC IMPEX Pvt Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of Dashimachonbok Fishery Corp claims that in all Abalone has about six major health-related benefits. Besides being a super seafood to boost stamina it also offers a plenty beauty benefits for women and memory enhancing power for students and professionals. It is also said to have ingredients to improve immunity and fight cancer.
“The ingredients contained in abalone, such as dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals, are effective in preventing skin problems, blemishes, and freckles, and are effective in soothing various skin problems. According to the 2020 Marine Drugs Journal, abalone exhibits excellent effects in boosting immunity and suppressing COVID-19. Recognize the positive impact abalone has on your health,” Roh added.
Abalone contains fucoidan, known for its potential to aid cancer treatment and prevention. The United States and Japan utilize this component in the fight against cancer. Abalone is abundant in alginic acid, aiding in the expulsion of heavy metals and toxins from the body caused by airborne pollutants. It protects people from environmental pollutants and maintain their health.
Abalone is in India at the Korean grocery stores as well as Korean restaurants in Delhi and NCR Towns. Some of the Japanese restaurants too have started serving abalone to its customers. More detail is available on www.wandocmall.com
According to ROH, Abalone has also been used as a medicine in oriental medicine for a long time. Abalone has appeared as a royal banquet since ancient times. It is proven enough to see that various abalone dishes are introduced in the court’s cookbooks “Jinyeon’s gwe” and “Jeon-gwig’, and “Yeon-gu’s “Yimwon Economic Ji” in Seoyu-gu.
Abalone as an oriental medicine has effects such as antipyretic, diuretic, improvement of jaundice, and improvement of cystitis, and is known to be effective in improving liver function.
In oriental medicine, abalone is said to be good for people who have a lot of heat and dry mouth and throat because their body is flat and a little cool, people who are often dizzy and pull back neck, people who have a risk of cataracts when their eyes are dark and often red, and there is a risk of cataracts.
