You won’t gain weight if you eat a lot of spicy cabbage. Spicy cabbage is a fermented delicacy, which is actually kimchi. Its main ingredient, cabbage, has extremely low calories, and garlic has the function of burning fat. It is also rich in dietary fiber, which can prevent constipation, enteritis and other diseases, and can also prevent diseases in the human body. Fat accumulation, and effectively consume the fat that has been formed to achieve the effect of weight loss and health care.

Kimchi produces a large number of active lactic acid bacteria during the pickling and fermentation process. Lactic acid bacteria mainly colonize the small intestine and large intestine of the human body. They ferment sugars to produce organic acids such as lactic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid, which are beneficial to the absorption of intestinal nutrients. Spicy cabbage is rich in inorganic substances such as calcium, copper, phosphorus, and iron, which can promote the absorption of vitamin C and vitamin B.

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Kimchi is a semi-finished dish made by adding a large amount of salt and seasonings to vegetables. However, because the preparation of kimchi is relatively simple, it takes less time and requires less ingredients. Soaked in water, so kimchi often contains a certain amount of nitrates. After nitrate enters the body, it will also generate nitrosamines under tissue metabolism.

Both nitrites and nitrosamines will cause certain harm to the human body. In particular, nitrosamines have strong carcinogenic effects and mainly cause esophageal cancer (Digestive Internal Medicine Oncology Department) and gastric cancer (Digestive Internal Medicine Oncology Department). ), liver cancer and colorectal cancer (Department of Anorectal Surgery, Gastroenterology and Oncology), etc.

But don’t worry too much. Potassium nitrate is indeed produced during the pickling process of kimchi, but the content of this carcinogen is highest in the first few days of kimchi, and then gradually decreases. As the production process of kimchi continues to improve, the potassium nitrate content of kimchi has also continued to decrease. As long as you can control the amount of food and eat kimchi appropriately, it can still have a relatively good health care effect on the body.

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