Green: Vegetables dominated by green include spinach, celery and green pepper. Green dishes give people a fresh and lively feeling. Green vegetables are rich in carotenoids and Vc, which have antioxidant and eye protection effects.
Yellow: The vegetables mainly yellow are pumpkin, yellow sweet pepper and yellow zucchini. They give people a fragrant and crisp feeling, which makes people feel fresh and sweet. Yellow vegetables are also rich in carotenoids, which can delay skin aging and benefit the liver.
Red: The main red vegetables are tomatoes, carrots and red peppers. It can give people amazing excitement, improve people's appetite and stimulate the excitement of the nervous system.
In recent years, with the deepening of epidemiological research, it has been found that lycopene contained in tomatoes has strong antioxidant function, while tomatoes
Lycopene can effectively prevent prostate cancer, and its inhibitory effect on uterine cancer and lung cancer cells is significantly higher than that of β -carotene and α -carotene
Purple: Purple-based vegetables include purple eggplant and perilla. This vegetable is rich in vitamin P, and its carotene content is less than that of vegetables, but more than that of white vegetables. Purple vegetable food has rich flavor, can regulate nerves, make people feel happy, and is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia, hemoptysis and purple spot disease.
White: White-based vegetables mainly include water bamboo, lotus root, wax gourd, Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, white radish and so on. They give people a clean, cool and gentle feeling, which plays a certain role in regulating visual balance and calming emotions, and is also good for preventing and treating hypertension and calming the nerves. The carotene content of white vegetables is not as good as that of dark vegetables.