{"id":126,"date":"2009-01-11T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/ginger.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:24:39","slug":"ginger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ginger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officially known as Zingiber officinale.\u00a0 Although the edible part is often called a &#8220;root&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s actually a rhizome, or underground stem.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/ginger-root-extract.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ginger<\/a> has both culinary and medicinal uses.\u00a0 The rhizome contains essential oils and\u00a0bioactive components called &#8220;gingerols&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;shogaols&#8221;\u00a0that have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16194058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and anti-tumor effects<\/a>.\u00a0 Ginger\u00a0is an <a href=\"http:\/\/umm.edu\/health\/medical\/altmed\/herb\/ginger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effective treatment\u00a0for nausea<\/a>, as well as a mild <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16580033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thermogenic<\/a>&#8230;which is why it&#8217;s frequently added to fat loss supplements.\u00a0Other potential health\u00a0benefits include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17010224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improved\u00a0glucose control\u00a0+\u00a0serum cholesterol\/blood lipid levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially known as Zingiber officinale.\u00a0 Although the edible part is often called a &#8220;root&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s actually a rhizome, or underground stem.\u00a0 Ginger has both culinary and medicinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[461,462,691,876,930,1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}