Cabbage is native to the north of China, introduced to the south, north and south are cultivated all over the world. The nineteenth century was introduced to Japan, Europe and the United States. There are many types of cabbage, the northern cabbage has Shandong Jiaozhou cabbage, Beijing Qingbai, Tianjin green, northeast of the big short cabbage, Shanxi Yangcheng's big hairy side and so on. The southern cabbage is introduced from the north, and its varieties are Ujinbai, Silkworm Cabbage, Cockspur White, Xue Li Qing, etc., all of which are excellent varieties. Cabbage contains protein, fat, a variety of vitamins and calcium, phosphorus and other minerals, as well as a lot of crude fiber, used for stewing, frying, stir-frying, mixing, as well as stuffing, side dishes can be. In particular, cabbage contains more vitamins, and meat with food, both can add meat fresh flavor, but also can reduce the meat in the nitrite and nitrite-like substances, reduce the production of carcinogenic amine nitrite. As the saying goes, "Meat counts pork as beautiful, and cabbage is the only fresh food in the dish." In addition to cooked food, cabbage can also be processed into dried vegetables or made into pickled products, such as Hebei's "Beijing winter vegetables" is made of cabbage famous local specialties.

Nutritional value

1, cabbage is rich in crude fiber, not only can play the role of laxative, promote the role of detoxification and stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote bowel movements, to help digestion. For the prevention of intestinal cancer has a good effect.

2, fall and winter air is particularly dry, cold wind on the human skin is very harmful. Cabbage is rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, eat more cabbage, can play a good skin care and skin effect.

3, the United States of America, the New York Hormone Institute scientists found that Chinese and Japanese women breast cancer incidence

low, is because they often eat cabbage. There are trace elements in cabbage that help break down estrogen, which is linked to breast cancer.

Applicable people

Particularly suitable for lung heat cough, constipation, kidney disease patients eat more, but also women should eat more; cabbage is cold, cold stomach, abdominal pain, loose stools and cold dysentery can not eat more.

Cabbage is suitable for everyone to eat. More suitable for chronic habitual constipation, cold and flu, lung heat cough, throat inflammation, abdominal distension and fever people eat. Using cabbage leaves on the face can reduce the growth of acne on the right. People with diarrhea try to avoid eating cabbage. Rotting cabbage should not be eaten, because under the action of bacteria, the nitrate in cabbage is transformed into toxic nitrite. Nitrite can make the blood in the low blood red blood cell oxidation, change abundance of high iron hemoglobin, update to go oxygen carrying capacity, the use of the right to the occurrence of severe hypoxia caused by poisoning, dizziness, headache, nausea, rapid heartbeat, coma, and even life-threatening.

Use

Cabbage eating method is quite a lot, more cooking methods, whether it is frying, stir-frying, burning, frying, braising, grilling, shabu-shabu, cold, pickled, can be made into a delicious dish, especially with fresh mushrooms, mushrooms, ham, shrimp, meat, chestnuts and so on the same burn, you can make a lot of characteristics of the flavors of the dishes.

1, cut the cabbage, it is advisable to cut the silk, so that the cabbage is easy to cook.

2, cooking should not be used to boil blanching, soaking hot after squeezing juice and other methods to avoid the sign of a large loss of nutrients.

3, rotten cabbage contains nitrites and other toxins, after eating can make the human body serious lack of oxygen and even life-threatening.

4, cabbage in boiling water blanching time should not be too long, the best time for 20 ~ 30 seconds, otherwise blanched too soft, too rotten, it is not good.

5, cabbage in the process of rotting toxins, produced by the nitrite can make the blood hemoglobin loss of oxygen-carrying capacity, so that the human body occurs a serious hypoxia, and even life-threatening, so the rotting of the cabbage must not be eaten.

Eating efficacy

Cabbage is slightly cold, sweet, flat, to the intestines, stomach. It has the function of relieving heat and removing vexation, facilitating the intestines and stomach, nourishing the stomach and generating fluids, removing vexation and quenching thirst, diuretic and laxative, clearing away heat and removing toxins; it can be used for coughing with lung heat, constipation, dengtan poisoning and lacquer sores.

Cabbage, in addition to being a vegetable for people to eat, has medicinal value. The motherland medicine believes that the cabbage is sweet and flat, has the effect of clearing away heat, quenching thirst and diuresis, and facilitating the stomach and intestines, and can prevent vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) by eating cabbage regularly. Folk also use cabbage to cure cold prescription, the method is to use cabbage dry root with brown sugar, ginger, water decoction, or with cabbage root three, onion root seven, decoction with brown sugar, drink while hot, covered with sweating, cold that is healed. Cabbage washed and chopped decoction soup, every night before going to bed to wash the frostbite affected areas, even wash a few days to wind effect. Cabbage seeds can be alcohol, for those who are drunk, available cabbage seeds research and mix "well Hua water" (i.e., from the wells in the well water), served effectively. For those who have a weak stomach, it is not advisable to eat more cabbage to avoid nausea and vomiting. If you eat too much, you can use ginger to solve it.

Tips

Eat more cabbage can prevent breast cancer. The United States of America, the New York Hormone Institute of science found that the incidence of breast cancer in Chinese and Japanese women is much lower than that of Western women, is due to eat more cabbage. The survey showed that every 100,000 women, the annual incidence of breast cancer in the number of: China 6 people, Japan 21 people, Northern Europe 84 people, the United States 91 people. Scientists have found that there is a compound in cabbage that helps break down the estrogen linked to breast cancer called indole ----3---- methanol, which accounts for about 1% of the weight of dried cabbage. A woman who eats 450 grams of cabbage a day absorbs 500 milligrams of this compound, which increases the number of a sub-important enzyme in the body that helps break down estrogen.

Cabbage, also known as woad in ancient times, has the reputation of being the "king of vegetables", which is said to have been proposed by Mr. Qi Baishi. Qi old man has a picture of Chinese cabbage, and the inscription said: "Peony for the king of flowers, lychee for the first of a hundred fruits, only regardless of cabbage for the king of vegetables, why?" So the beauty of the "King of Vegetables" has spread and spread.