Chinese cabbage, which southerners are used to calling yellow sprouts, should actually be one of white Chinese cabbage, green gang Chinese cabbage and orange heart Chinese cabbage.
Nowadays, Chinese cabbage can be eaten all the year round, but in terms of taste, it is better in winter. After winter, Chinese cabbage is sweet and delicious, with delicious taste.
Dr. Clove tells you how to eat Chinese cabbage in autumn and winter.
Good nutrition that can be bought for a few dollars.
The nutritional characteristics of Chinese cabbage are as follows:
- The vitamin C content is good, higher than watermelon (which is not surprising, watermelon is not a fruit with high vitamin C content), which is the same as citrus. There are more insoluble fibers, which can increase the volume of food residue, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation. Low calories and strong satiety, half a kilo of Chinese cabbage is equivalent to 2-3 mouths of rice. (Of course, this is also a common characteristic of leafy vegetables) The water content is extremely high, 93% of which is water (the water content is the same as that of watermelons).
When it comes to water content, boiling women (husbands) must have experience: beef stewed with cabbage, a large pot is put into the pot, and there is only one bowl when the plate is put into the pot, right? Because the water is flowing out.
In this way, it seems that cheap Chinese cabbage is really nutritious and should be added to daily recipes in autumn and winter.
Can Chinese cabbage really resist cancer?
Many people know that cabbage is [cruciferous] and may think of [cancer prevention] first.
Phytochemicals unique to cruciferous vegetables (isothiocyanate and indole) have indeed been proved to have certain anti-cancer and anti-oxidation effects. However, they are all chemical components at the experimental level and cannot explain any clinical preventive or therapeutic effects.
Green vegetables, shepherd’s purse, radish, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, mustard, etc., all belong to cruciferae. When vitamins, chlorophyll, carotene, anthocyanin, etc. work together, their health care effect is better, and it is also beneficial to control blood pressure, reduce blood sugar and lose weight.
Moreover, vegetables and fruits have more or less good nutritional and health-care significance. It is true that cruciferous vegetables can reduce blood pressure and lose weight, because these are also the common nutritional characteristics of vegetables and fruits.
The more kinds of vegetables, the better. If you only eat Chinese cabbage and cruciferous vegetables, you will lose too much.
Don’t listen to cancer prevention and treatment as a treasure, and don’t leave every day.
A hundred vegetables are not as good as cabbage?
They say cabbage is better than a hundred dishes? How do I feel, is to find a reason for laziness? If we must discuss the level, the nutrition of Chinese cabbage is at most the middle reaches of vegetables.
As far as choosing vegetables is concerned, [lecherous] people are people who understand nutrition.
The darker the color of vegetables, the higher the nutritional value.
< < Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents > > recommended that dark leafy vegetables should account for 1/2 of 300 ~ 500 grams of vegetables every day. However, cabbage is a light-colored vegetable and is not considered [color].
The human body needs more than 40 kinds of nutrients every day, and we must eat not less than 12 kinds of food to satisfy it. It is required that the meal should have vegetables, the types of vegetables should be diversified, the diet should be balanced, and the diversity and moderation should be adhered to in order to be nutritious and healthy.
Where is the nutrition good for vegetable leaves, vegetable gangs and vegetable hearts?
You may think that the cabbage is crisp, tender and juicy, and you are always used to leaving the good taste to the elderly and children and choosing to chew the side skin.
In fact, the reason why the cabbage heart is crisp, tender and juicy is that it is wrapped, does not see light, and cannot produce chlorophyll and cellulose, etc. Look at its light color and you will know that it does not have too many nutrients.
So you have found out that taste and nutrition often conflict, and taste is realized by sacrificing some crude fiber.
Nutrients and health-care ingredients are more on the outer leaves and help of vegetables than on the heart of vegetables.
- Vegetable leaves are the places where vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are most concentrated. Vegetables are the most abundant in water and dietary fiber.
If the elderly and children have constipation problems from time to time, and you don’t give them vegetables with higher water content and dietary fiber, you may have to watch them suffer.
Don’t eat the wrong baby food
Baby cabbage, a mini version of Chinese cabbage, is sweeter, more flavored and more delicate in appearance than Chinese cabbage.
However, if someone tells you that if the leaves of Chinese cabbage are stripped off a few layers, it will become baby vegetables and be sold more expensive, you must not be fooled: as mentioned earlier, the leaves of Chinese cabbage are more nutritious and cannot be lost.
Then if you are foolish and can’t distinguish white vegetables from baby vegetables, come and know about them as soon as possible:
At the top of Chinese cabbage, the leaves bend inward. The leaves of baby vegetables are relatively straight.