Juice from fruit and vegetables is very valuable to a human body. All of them make active a metabolism, saturate with natural vitamins and minerals, improve work of a digestive tract, maintain water balance. About what else benefit is brought by cabbage juice, read in our material.
Caloric content and nutrition value
Cabbage juice is recommended, first of all, at dietary food. And it is clear why, its caloric content — 25 kcal on 100 ml. At the same time its vitamin and mineral structure is very different, and the nutrition value looks as follows: proteins — 1.8 g; fats — 0.1 g; carbohydrates — 4.7 g. Power ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates: 29%, 4%, 75%. In juice a large amount of vegetable fibers and water.
Whether you know? Linguists believe that the word "cabbage" came from an Ancient Greek "kaputum" or from Celtic "cap". Both the first, and the second is translated as "head".
Vitamin and mineral structure
Before telling about what benefit is brought by cabbage drink at hit in a human body, we suggest to consider its vitamin and mineral structure in details.
So, juice from a white cabbage contains in itself such vitamins:
- carotene — 0.04 mg;
- ascorbic acid — 30 mg;
- thiamine — 0.005 mg;
- Riboflavinum — 0.005 mg;
- pyridoxine — 0.12 mg;
- folic acid — 15 mg;
- RR — 0.4 mg.
Also it contains special vitamin U which helps to prevent stomach ulcer. As for minerals as a part of drink, it contains nearly all table of Mendeleyev. You judge — the mineral structure looks thus:
- Ca (calcium);
- K (potassium);
- Na (sodium);
- Cl (chlorine);
- Ph (phosphorus);
- Mg (magnesium);
- S (is gray);
- N (nitrogen);
- Fe (iron);
- Mn (manganese);
- J (iodine);
- O (oxygen);
- Si (silicon);
- N (hydrogen);
- F (fluorine).
All these elements are necessary for the person for daily existence and activity.
Useful properties for an organism
Fresh juice from a white cabbage is considered one of the best vitamin products, promoting improvement of a human body. It can be used daily. And it can practically do everyone — to prepare it absolutely simply and cheap.
The list of useful properties of drink will occupy not one page, it has so serious impact on bodies and the systems of the person. Let's try to tell about its most important properties in brief. As it is possible to see from structure, drink contains considerable amount of vitamin C, and it means that it strengthens immunity, increases protective forces of an organism at seasonal virus epidemics, colds. And if the healthy person in day needs 60-70 mg of ascorbic acid, then having drunk a glass of cabbage juice, he completely will cover this norm.
Most of all vitamin C contains in sauerkraut, a dogrose, parsley, orange, blackcurrant, grapefruit.
High level of sulfur, chlorine and iodine does drink irreplaceable at clarification and regeneration of a mucous stomach and intestines. And if to remember also rare vitamin U among the substances which are present at drink, then it is possible to tell that juice is an excellent means for prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, and especially ulcers. The combination to juice from carrots gives good effect for cleaning of intestines and an organism in general.
Therapists and cardiologists recommend cabbage juice to those who are inclined to cardiovascular diseases. At its long use at people the lowering of arterial pressure, "harmful" cholesterol, reduction of risk of development of atherosclerosis is noted.
As cabbage drink is low-calorie and contains the majority of substances necessary for the person, it is often included as a component of diets for weight loss. And doctors by all means advise it to use that who has an excessive weight and obesity. Folk healers noticed that juice helps to remove quicker a phlegm at inflammation of the upper airways, to heal a throat and mucous a mouth.
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It is useful for women to drink this juice as it well influences a condition of hair, nails and skin. Also it should be used more often that who plans the birth of the child or is in the early stages of pregnancy. Folic acid in structure is necessary for normal development of a nervous tube and a brain in a fruit.
Many people who were regularly taking drink for a long time noted at themselves significant improvements at a varicosity — elimination of pains, reduction of veins, absence of hypostases. At external application, juice promotes the fastest healing of wounds, a stop of bleedings.
Summing up the aforesaid results, we will note that juice from a white cabbage has such properties:
- immunomodelling;
- anti-inflammatory;
- styptic;
- diuretic;
- wound healing;
- antioxidant;
- regenerating;
- antibacterial.
Whether you know? The biggest cabbage was grown up in America. Its weight — 62.71 kg. This record is written down on pages of the Guinness Book of Records.
Application
Thanks to the fact that cabbage juice has such rich vitamin and mineral structure and has a large amount of useful properties it found application in cookery, dietology, cosmetology, traditional medicine.
In cookery and dietology
In cookery cabbage juice is applied only in combination with drinks from other vegetables to preparation of vegetable juice. Preparation of mix from the squeezed-out liquid of different types of cabbage is also possible: Bruxelles, red, white, color, Savoy.
One of values of cabbage drink — it is effective means for weight loss. At the excess weight recommend to drink on a glass of juice for half an hour till a breakfast three months. Its combination to dairy and fermented milk products is possible. In some diets replace with a glass of vegetable drink a breakfast or a dinner.
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For fasting days the drink made from one part of the liquid which is squeezed out of cabbage, and one part of water is used.
In cosmetology
Regular consumption of cabbage juice with a frequency of two-three times a week allows to improve complexion, growth of hair, nails and a condition of skin. Also it is possible to make the appearance beautiful and healthy, preparing means with vegetable juice as ingredient. There are several popular recipes:
For skin moistening. To make mix of oatmeal (30 g), honey (20 g), cabbage juice (50 ml). For the best interaction of ingredients it is necessary to draw a mask from five to seven minutes. Then to apply to face skin. To wash half an hour later.
For oily skin. To make mix of wheat flour (50 g) with cabbage juice that it turned out pastelike. To enter a small amount — on a teaspoon tip — turmerics and couples of drops of essential oil of a tea tree. To smear face skin. To wash 20 minutes later. For skin toning. To moisten a napkin in juice from sauerkraut. To put it on the person for 20 minutes. To wash a face, using grass broth.
For skin bleaching. To make mix of sauerkraut juice (two tablespoons), lemon juice (one teaspoon), curdled milk (two tablespoons). To put for 10 minutes.
For strengthening of hair. To make mix of cabbage juice (50 ml), aloe juice (50 ml), olive oil (one-two tablespoons). To grease head skin. To wrap up in a plastic bag and to wrap up with a towel. To wash 40 minutes later.
In traditional medicine
Folk healers suggest fans to be treated by natural means several recipes which allow to improve a condition of the person at gastritis, sore throat, a SARS, cough, locks, hypostases and other problems with health. For acquaintance we give the most widespread of them. However we warn that even before treatment by such, at first sight, safe means as cabbage juice, it is necessary to consult with the doctor to avoid aggravation of a disease. At gastritis. To drink on a glass of just squeezed out juice for an hour to food, better in the morning, for a month. It is also possible to drink on a half of a glass three times a day to food. To apply only in case of the lowered acidity.
At cough. To make mix of cabbage drink and honey, having taken their equal parts. To drink on a half of a glass three times a day to food.
It is effective bear fat, honey, green radish, badger fat, a thyme helps to get rid of cough.
At a sore throat. To dissolve juice with water in a proportion one to one and to rinse the accumulated microbes and bacteria in a throat. It is also possible to do compresses on a throat.
At hypostases of legs. Hypostases leave if to drink 60 ml of juice from white or red cabbage three times a day before food.
At strongly expressed local allergic reaction after vaccination. If at the kid to whom did vaccination the hand or a leg inflamed, then from a white cabbage it is necessary to separate a leaf and it is good to knead it or to knock with the hammer for hurling back of meat that on its surface juice acted, and then to wind with a leaf the inflamed place, having strengthened it cellophane and bandage. By the way, thus even the hypodermic cones which arose under skin as reaction to an inoculation resolve. At burns. To prepare mix from juice and a yolk of egg, having taken their equal parts. To smear the place of a burn to eight times a day.
Important! Before consumption of cabbage drink in the medical purposes the consultation of the doctor is necessary.
How to prepare and how many it is possible to store
It is rather simple to prepare cabbage juice. Receiving 250 ml will require cabbage about a half a kilo.
It is better to use the juice extractor to a pressing of liquid. However, if it is absent, then it is possible to squeeze out juice also hands, having previously small chopped cabbage leaves. Leaves follows with effort to wring out through a gauze. However at a manual extraction of liquid it will turn out much less, than when using the juice extractor.
Fresh juice is suitable for the use within a day. It is necessary to store it in the fridge in capacity from glass with well corked cover. In winter time the preparation of juice from sauerkraut is possible. It is not less useful, than fresh. And here you should not preserve vegetable drink as at heat treatment all valuable components will leave, and it just will be useless.
How to use
The healthy person can drink no more than three glasses (750 ml) of cabbage juice a day. However physicians say that for improvement of an organism also one glass quite will be enough. If you never drank earlier juice from cabbage regularly, then it is the best of all to begin with 50 ml, gradually increasing the volume of the drunk drink in day.
It is important! If the person has problems with intestines, diarrhea, the increased gas generation is quite often observed, then cabbage juice should be diluted with boiled water in a proportion one to one.
To anticipate undesirable reactions from intestines, drink needs to be drunk for half an hour to food. It is better if, for example, to divide one or two glasses of liquid into several receptions by small doses — on 30-50 ml. The advantage of such use will not decrease, and here a meteorizm, most likely, it will be possible to avoid. We want to warn those who never tasted cabbage drink — on taste it not really tasty, it needs or to be mixed with other juice, for example, from carrots, pumpkin, pomegranate, or to add to it honey. And here salt and sugar — not the best additives for cabbage juice.
Contraindications and harm
In spite of the fact that cabbage juice has so many useful properties, it can do harm, especially at abuse of it. So, dissolving the laid slags and toxins in intestines, it at the same time causes the increased gas generation and an abdominal distension. Meteorizm causes discomfort to healthy people, and here to health of those who underwent an operation, prepares for carrying out inspection, can do to pregnant women also harm.
It is carefully necessary to drink cabbage juice to the women nursing — their use can cause swelling and gripes in babies whose digestive system was not up to the end created.
Juice is not recommended to people to whom the diagnosis "gastritis with the increased acidity", "pancreatitis" is made and also that who has problems with kidneys. As at increase in gas generation in an abdominal cavity pressure amplifies, you should not drink cabbage juice also that who had a myocardial infarction. Cabbage juice — the drink which is not differing in pleasant tastes, however containing a large amount of useful substances which use is necessary for the person for normal activity, prevention and treatment of various diseases. That cabbage juice brought not only advantage, but also pleasure at the use, it needs to be mixed with juice from other vegetables. For increase in protective forces of an organism and its improvement it is enough to organize reception on a glass of vegetable drink in day. It is better to accept it small doses. At the use in the medical purposes the consultation of the doctor and strict observance of a dosage in the recipe are necessary.