Chinese cabbage
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Does boiled cabbage have any nutrition?
Nutrition is also available, but it will be reduced. If the cabbage is cooked for too long, the vitamin content will decrease.
Vitamin C is no stranger to most people. Appropriate vitamin C supplementation can play a good role in antioxidation, enhance immunity, whiten skin, resist aging and resist virus. Chinese cabbage is rich in vitamin C.
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What is the function of boiled cabbage?
1, Chinese medicine believes that Chinese cabbage is slightly cold and sweet, which has the functions of nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, diuresis and relaxing bowels, clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving the constitution of yin deficiency and flourishing fire, and assisting in the treatment of diseases such as heat stranguria. It is a good vegetable for supplementing nutrition, purifying blood, dredging intestines and stomach, preventing diseases and promoting metabolism, and is suitable for the public to eat.
Besides rich nutrition, Chinese cabbage has high medicinal value. Chinese cabbage is slightly cold, which has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving annoyance, diuresis, relaxing bowels, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. Indications: lung and stomach fever, vexation and thirst, dysuria, constipation and erysipelas carbuncle.
3, cabbage root soup can cure constipation. Cabbage roots are rich in crude fiber, which can moisten intestines and detoxify, stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, and also have excellent effects on preventing intestinal cancer.
4, cabbage root boiled water can cure a cold. Chinese cabbage root has the effect of nourishing yin, clearing away heat and moistening dryness. Boiled water of cabbage root has a good effect on exogenous wind-heat, lung-heat cough and stomach-heat polydipsia. People who often have bad breath can also try it.
5. Selenium contained in chinese cabbage juice not only helps to prevent amblyopia, but also helps to enhance the bactericidal power of white blood cells in human body and resist the toxicity of heavy metals. When gum infection causes periodontal disease, drinking mixed juice of cabbage and carrot can not only supplement a lot of vitamin C for human body, but also clean oral cavity.
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Matters needing attention in eating cabbage
1. Never eat cabbage that is not pickled thoroughly.
Cabbage without salt will produce nitrite, which is carcinogenic.
2, blanching time should not be long
The blanching time of Chinese cabbage in boiling water should not be too long, preferably 20 ~ 30 seconds, otherwise it will be too soft and rotten to eat.
Don't wrap cabbage in newspaper.
Chinese cabbage is wrapped in newspaper, and the ink in the newspaper contains toxic heavy metal elements such as lead, chromium, cadmium, mercury and carcinogens such as polychlorinated biphenyls, which will pollute Chinese cabbage and make people become victims of ink.
4. Insufficient consumption of iodized salt.
Chinese cabbage contains a small amount of substances that can cause goiter, which will interfere with the thyroid gland's utilization of iodine, an essential mineral. Therefore, eating a certain amount of iodized salt, marine fish, seafood and edible seaweed can supplement iodine deficiency.