Eating sesame cake without sesame seeds is as tasteless as eating instant noodles without seasoning bags. But sesame is not only an ingredient to add fragrance and flavor, but also a small sesame is rich in nutrition. Sesame contains many essential nutrients, such as fatty acids, especially unsaturated fatty acids, which reach about 80%. Unsaturated fatty acids are essential fatty acids that cannot be synthesized by human body. They can reduce cholesterol, enhance cell membrane permeability, and prevent myocardial tissue and atherosclerosis; Sesame also contains about 20% protein in the nutritional components, including all eight essential amino acids required by the human body. Black sesame also contains some antibacterial proteins with special activities, which have a good inhibitory effect on fungi; The content of vitamin E in sesame is the highest in plant food. Every hundred grams of black sesame seeds contain about 50 mg of vitamin E. Vitamin E has a very good anti-oxidation ability, which can protect the body cells from free radicals through anti-oxidation, and is conducive to the maintenance of the health function of human organs, so as to play the role of delaying the aging of the body; In addition, vitamin E can promote the secretion of human sex hormones, increase the number and vitality of male sperm, increase the concentration of female estrogen, and play a role in improving fertility and preventing abortion. Therefore, vitamin E is also known as "tocopherol"; Black sesame is also rich in minerals and trace elements, especially calcium. It contains nearly 800 mg of calcium per hundred grams of black sesame, which is higher than the well-known calcium supplement Jiapin milk, because the calcium content per hundred grams of milk is only about 200 mg. Black sesame has more potassium and less sodium, and the ratio of the two is about 40:1, which is very important for controlling blood pressure and maintaining heart health. In addition to these, sesame also contains many other nutrients.

　　Sesame lignans are the main bioactive substances in sesame. Lignans (lignans) are a kind of phytoestrogens in plants. They are named for their early discovery and more distribution in xylem and resin of plants. Sesame lignans contain a variety of components toSesaminandSesaminSesamin accounts for more than half of the total content of sesame oleoresin. Sesame lignans have excellent biological activities and unique mechanism of action. A large number of studies have shown that sesamin has strong antioxidant capacity, and can also reduce the level of serum cholesterol, especially the risk factor of arteriosclerosis LDL-C (low density lipoprotein). In addition, sesamin also plays a good role in protecting the liver, reducing blood glucose, controlling blood pressure, regulating immunity and inhibiting tumor.

　　In addition, the content of dietary fiber in black sesame is also quite rich, accounting for nearly 20% of the total weight, which has also become an important reason for sesame to moisten intestines and relieve constipation. Taking black sesame seeds for a long time has a certain therapeutic effect on chronic neuritis, peripheral nerve paralysis, hypertension and other diseases. Sesame oil is a kind of coagulant, which can be used to treat patients with thrombocytopenic purpura and hemorrhagic diathesis. The main applicable groups are as follows:

　　1. middle aged and elderly people. It is suitable for people with dizziness, dazzle, blurred vision, weak waist and legs, tinnitus and deafness, withered hair and early white hair caused by liver and kidney deficiency.

　　2. postpartum women. Suitable for women with postpartum milk deficiency.

　　3. it is suitable for people with weakness, anemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, elderly asthma, tuberculosis, urticaria and habitual constipation.

　　4. suitable for people with diabetes, thrombocytopenic miasma, chronic neuritis, peripheral nerve paralysis, hemorrhoids and hemorrhagic diathesis.