Cabbage is a common vegetable in daily life, and you can make many delicious dishes with it as the main ingredient. But people often hear about the negative rumors about cabbage, "cabbage is most likely to be enriched with heavy metals," "cabbage is the first of the five poisons," and so on, these rumors like to eat cabbage people worried. So, are these claims rumors or facts? Hollow cabbage can still be eaten with confidence?

The rumor is hot "the most easy to enrich the heavy metal hollow cabbage," said Ruan Guangfeng, director of the Science and Technology Department of the Center for Food and Nutritional Information Exchange, said in an interview with Beijing Morning Post, vegetables can not be detached from the natural environment to survive, so which contains traces of heavy metal elements is normal, but there is no evidence to show that Hollow cabbage is easy to enrich heavy metals, vegetables purchased from regular channels, generally in line with national standards, can be eaten with confidence.

In addition, the Hefei Evening News has also reported that because any kind of vegetables can not be detached from the natural environment, so there are a small amount of heavy metals and pesticide residues in vegetables is sometimes unavoidable. The state of lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, chromium and other heavy metals in vegetables have strict limited standards. Some media have tested the hollow cabbage, the results show that its heavy metal content is far below the national safety standards, and is by no means "the first of the five poisons". Vegetables in the heavy metal content is not excessive, mainly depends on its origin, the environment, as long as the soil, water and other heavy metals do not exceed the standard, vegetables in the heavy metal naturally does not exceed the standard.

Eating cabbage has the following three major benefits:

1, heat detoxification. Cabbage rich in pectin can accelerate the excretion of toxic substances in the body, lignin can improve the vitality of the macrophage swallowing bacteria, sterilization and anti-inflammatory, for the treatment of sores, carbuncles and so on.

2, lower blood sugar. There is a kind of hollow cabbage called purple water spinach, purple water spinach contained in the insulin component can reduce blood sugar, diabetic patients can use its diet.

3, laxative, anti-cancer. Cabbage contains a lot of fiber, can enhance intestinal peristalsis, accelerate defecation, for the prevention and treatment of constipation and reduce intestinal cancer has a positive effect; experiments have proved that the juice of cabbage on the Staphylococcus aureus Streptococcus, and other inhibitory effect.

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