Bitter Food Hero #7: Ginger Or Turmeric?
Unearth the secrets about which root is the most powerful bitter ally for your health as ginger and turmeric offer an intriguing battle royale
In the bright orange trunks is turmeric, the people’s champion presiding over all things healthy.
In the yellow trunks is ginger, a fresh challenger for the title of the best root you can eat.
Both are heavy hitters for your longevity, but which should be classed as the bitter root-GOAT?
An examination of two identical sources (ginger and turmeric) was made to give you a simple one-two summary of everything you need to know.
The Mineral Shoot Out
Whether you’re lifting 400lb or a 1oz toilet seat, you need minerals for every humanoid function and one root is the ultimate power broker.
Turmeric outshines ginger by a big margin, offering more calcium, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and copper.
This isn’t just by a small margin because turmeric has 90 times more iron and 12 times more zinc than ginger.
This is a BDE win for the minerals lurking in turmeric’s orange trunks.
Vitamin Victor
This is tough one to call because it’s finding a metric that can pit vitamins against one another can be about as disappointing as a cat rejecting offers of pst-pst-pst, but here’s the scratch.
Ginger has more vitamin C and B6 that keep your immune system juiced up and full of beans needed to fend off feeling ill.
Turmeric has more vitamin K, E, B3, B2, B1 which give you energy to feel sparky and keeps your skin looking glossy.
If there’s one thing you can’t go without, it’s vitamin C, just ask early century pirates who went arrr-arr to scurvy, giving ginger a clear upper hand.
Anti-Everything Agents
If you want to inoculate yourself against all that’s bad in the world, these roots are the ultimate defence force.
Turmeric and ginger are uber powerful anti-inflammatory agents, smashing the sting out of almost all inflammation and are so strong they’re as good as popping an ibuprofen.
Ginger can even fight off certain pathogens that attack your throat, almost acting like a nutritional face mask.
You were meant to eat both roots on the daily, it’s just a shame you probably think of them as more of a garnish than a main event.
Immunity Specialists
They’re both fat and bulbously full of an antioxidants and powerful immune boosting properties that are almost unprecedented in the plant kingdom.
Considering it would require a Google-breaking algorithm to computationally decide which root has more, it’s safe to assume both these roots offer equal prowess in improving heart health, reducing your risk of cancer and nurturing brain health.
This is a clear draw, but as technology develops, we’ll know more about which root offers the biggest uptick for your longevity.
The Decision
And the winner is? Both.
Yeah, you knew this match had a soccer vibe already, but there is a penalty shootout if you want to watch.
Ginger can be eaten in near unlimited quantities, though that can be tough because it’s bitter and powerful tasting, but that’s where ginger filled drinks, sauces and sushi come into play.
Turmeric can cause rashes and indigestion if eaten too much in one sitting, but you’d need to eat these roots in obscene quantities to get close to maxing out.
This means you can get digging and really pound as much of both each day to get your longevity to its fighting weight.