The Beijing cabbage was considered as exotic vegetable until recently. But today she can often be met on tables of Russians. She is added to salads, soups, extinguish and even pickled. The popularity of this species of cabbage is connected with a delicate flavor of vegetable, small caloric content and mass of useful properties.
Beijing cabbage: caloric content and structure
The Beijing cabbage – the real find for adherents of healthy food. It not without reason call still "the Beijing salad", it is very light vegetable. 100 grams of cabbage of a such type contain only 15 kilocalories.
At the same time, the Beijing cabbage can provide a human body with a set of necessary vitamins, minerals and other valuable elements. Though for 98% useful vegetable consists of water, at it there are vitamins A, C, E, K, rare RR, group B vitamins, folic acid, is well-cared, ниацин, potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, chlorine, sulfur, phosphorus, iron, manganese, iodine, zinc, amino acids, copper and fluorine. Besides, in the Beijing cabbage in small amounts there are proteins, carbohydrates and fats. And still, food fibers, necessary for the correct work of intestines.
It is very valuable that all useful substances are stored in the Beijing cabbage long, practically all winter. Therefore this vegetable should be included in an autumn-spring diet.
Than the Beijing cabbage is useful
Thanks to the rich and unique structure this representative of family of cabbage is shown those who wants to strengthen immunity. Though in the Beijing cabbage less vitamin C, than in usual white, but thanks to availability of seldom found RR vitamin it has property to improve work of nervous system. Healers of China and Japan advise is the Beijing cabbage to find health and longevity. In it there is a lot of lysine, essential amino acid which improves quality of blood normalizes a metabolism, dissolves alien proteins and strengthens immunity. As in this vegetable there is a lot of cellulose, it perfectly is suitable for adherents of various diets. The Beijing cabbage prevents emergence of locks, helps to adjust digestion and to bring toxins and slags out of an organism.
It is the best of all to eat the Beijing cabbage fresh and to add to salads: when heating many valuable elements collapse.
This sheet grade with success is applied not only in healthy food. Also the official medicine found for it application: Beijing doctors include cabbage in a diet having radiation sickness. The fact is that unique vegetable brings out of an organism of salt of heavy metals. Also Beijing cabbage is used in food of diabetics, hypertensive persons, people with atherosclerosis and illnesses of digestive tract, such as ulcer or gastritis. But nevertheless it is better to begin to use this species of cabbage in the preventive purposes, it perfectly brings cholesterol out of an organism, promotes growth of erythrocytes, prevents development of tumors.
Cautions
As almost and any food, at the Beijing cabbage has contraindications. You shouldn't eat it at pancreatitis, excessive acidity, exacerbation of gastrointestinal illnesses. Also this vegetable is quite badly combined with cheeses and dairy products. If is them with a small time interval or to combine, the stomach can fail.