Diets and healthy eating 06.09.2017

Dear readers, let's talk today about white cabbage. This is a real Tsarina of the garden, beautiful and juicy, it is tasty in the fresh and in sauarsa, it is used in many dishes. Cabbage is stored all winter and pleases not only the taste, but also very good for health.

From nature, from the cabbage land takes a lot of valuable, in it the mass of vitamins (especially vitamin C) and minerals. Therefore, people have long been using it not only in food, but also for the treatment of different diseases. Today we will talk with you than useful white cabbage for our body.

Composition and caloric of white cabbage

The composition of this vegetable is rich and rich. This is what vitamins are in a white cabbage: A, E, C, B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, K. According to the content of ascorbic acid, the cabbage is ahead of lemon. Only 200 g of fresh cabbage per day will provide Namitlin C.

Interestingly, in sauerkraut, the content of vitamin is higher. And only when the cabbage, probiotics appear in the cabbage - compounds restoring intestinal microflora.

There is in this vegetable and special vitamin U is a methionine substance, open in 1942. The peculiarity of this compound is that it contributes to the healing of erosions, ulcers and damage to mucous membranes, as well as skin eczema.

The mineral composition of the cabbage is also impressive: potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulfur, manganese, iron, zinc, sodium, selenium, etc.

In addition, the cabbage contains:

• organic acids;
• amino acids;
• phytoncides;
• glucose;
• sahara;
• cellulose.

In the cabbage there is a lot of such organic acid like a tartron. It does not give carbohydrates to transform into fats. She also obsches the body, stops in the stomach fermentation, useful for digestion.

White cabbage has a completely small calorie. In the fresh form it contains only 27-28 kcal per 100 g. It is most of all carbohydrates - 4.7 g and at the same time proteins - 1.8 and fats - 0.1 g.

Benefit of white health cabbage

The benefits of white cabbage in its beneficial effects on different organism systems. What can be noted useful and therapeutic properties of cabbage? Among its basic effects:

• anti-inflammatory;
• healing;
• anesthetic;
• cleaning;
• anti-skileotic;
• expectorant;
• antimicrobial;
• antitumor.

Vitamin C in kale is in itself, and in the form of a compound ascorbigen. Ascorbigen is stable, it is not afraid of heat treatment, but its main quality - it has an antitumor effect.

Cabbage phytoncides are struggling with microbes, such as golden staphylococcus, tuberculosis chopstick, etc.

For the stomach and intestines

It has long been known for the use of white-baked cabbage for the gastrointestinal tract. Vitamin U or methylmethionine sulfonium has already been mentioned. It contributes to the rapid healing of erosions, RAS, the ulcers of the mucous stomach. This compound allows you to treat a stomach and duodenal ulcer, colitis, gastritis.

Because of the fiber, the cabbage is excluded from the diet when aggravating ulcerative disease. But for treatment you can use cabbage juice.

Belococcal cabbage helps with digestion disorders, normalizes it, stimulates a sluggish intestine. Flower fresh cabbage activates the intestine and promotes cleansing from slags. Recommend cabbage during constipation and various intestinal disorders.

With elevated cholesterol

White cabbage is useful at elevated cholesterol. Cabin vitamin U is generally useful for metabolism, including fat exchange. This compound does not allow to form in vessels with lipoproteis or cholesterol plaques. Therefore, the cabbage can be recommended as a means of prevention of atherosclerosis.

For weight loss

Cabbage is useful for weight loss not only because Malokalorina. The fiber helps in cleansing the body, and tartronic acid does not allow carbohydrates to turn into fats, that is, prevents the formation of fatty sediments. It is useful to eat fresh or, because tartronic acid is destroyed by heat treatment. Useful for weight loss and cabbage juice. There is a lot of choline in it, which normalizes the exchange of fats in the body.

For joints and bones

Many people know about the benefits of white-born cabbage for joints. Cabbage is useful to eat when goug. There are no purines in vegetable that can provoke joint diseases. Cabbage gives an anesthetic and anti-inflammatory effect. A simple folk remedy is to smash the cabbage leaf and attach to the sore joint as a compress.

White cabbage contains vitamin K, which is very useful for strengthening bones.

When coughing

Cabbage whitewashed for a long time was used with cough. It is useful for bronchitis and pneumonia. He softens, gives an expectorant effect.

In case of heart disease, kidneys, gallstone disease

Cabbage is useful to eat during diseases of the heart and kidney. This is not a medicine, but the auxiliary means - potassium in the cabbage will help withdraw excess fluid. With bile sickness of cabbage will not suck in bulls.

For female health

What is useful white cabbage for women? Cabbage heals wounds and relieves inflammation. She also warns the appearance of tumors. All these properties are useful at.

The cabbage leaves contain indole connections. They do not act a hormone estrogen on the mammary glands. Green cabbage sheet is rich in folic acid, on which good blood circulation depends on, normal metabolism and which is so important for women's health.

For male health

There is the benefit of white cabbage and for men. Cabbage antitumor effect will reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Vitamin B9 or folic acid in the cabbage enhances the production of spermatozoa.

For nursing mothers and during pregnancy

Cabbage is very useful for future mothers, because it contains fiber, and a rich vitamin and mineral complex. Ascorbic acid reduces blood viscosity. During pregnancy, viscous blood is a dangerous symptom, it can lead to fetal fetal. Potassium gives an anti-voice effect, which is also important during pregnancy. And in the cabbage is simply priceless for the normal development of the future child. Cabbage is eaten with toxicosis, and sauerkraut will get rid of nausea.

When breastfeeding breastfeeding, such a complication is often found as lactostasis caused by congestion of milk in dairy ducts. Also can significantly help.

For children health

Belococcal cabbage contains a lot of vitamin C. It will strengthen children's immunity, will protect against seasonal colds and influenza.

Children do not need to give a lot of cabbage, her fiber may be heavy for the digestion of the child. Cabbage, including sauer, can be introduced into the children's diet, starting in 2-3 years, but gradually and if the child is healthy.

Cabbage for children is valuable vitamins and minerals. To obtain the norm "ascorbins" for immunity, the child is enough to give 150 g of fresh or 100 g of sauerkraut per day.

With reduced acidity

Belococcal cabbage will help with reduced gastric juice acidity. Or rather, the cabbage juice will help, in which the neutral acid-alkaline balance.

I invite you to see a very interesting video of the program "On the most important" about the benefits and danger of cabbage for our health.

Harm and contraindications of white cabbage

The benefits and harm of the white cabbage, of course, are not the same. It is more use in it, but also you need to know about possible. It is harmful to too much cabbage, as in general it is harmful to overeat. The surplus of fresh cabbage in the body will lead to the bloating of the abdomen, nausea, meteorism and even pain. So the fiber in large quantities will operate. This should be remembered by those who decided to lose weight on the cabbage. Do not eat cabbage to remember and sit every day on a "cabbage diet".

Among the contraindications to the use of white cabbage can be called the following:

• the aggravation of the ulcer of the stomach and intestines (then only cabbage juice is suitable and consult with the doctor);
• bleeding in the stomach or intestines;
• reinforced intestinal peristalistic;
• pancreatitis, enterocolitis.

How to choose cabbage

The main criteria for selecting white cabbage are simple. Kochan must be elastic, it is easy to check, squeezing it. Cabbage leaves should be natural bright green. There should be no stains on the outer leaves - yellow, brown or others. There should not be dents on the kochene, damage, cabbage should not have any unpleasant odors. On the cabbage cut should only be white. Optimal is considered if the kochan cabbage will weigh at least 1 kg.