The cauliflower is present at a diet of many people thanks to availability and great tastes, however not all know about other its positive sides. In our article we will tell about its structure, caloric content and about advantage which the organism in the presence of this product in a diet can receive.
Caloric content and nutrition value
The cauliflower is rich with useful substances, but at the same time it contains a small amount of calories which depends on by what way this vegetable is made.
100 grams of a fresh and boiled cauliflower and also steamed have only 30 kilocalories. This product prepared with sour cream or egg contains 54 kilocalories on 100 grams, and when frying their quantity increases to 120.
100 grams of vegetable contain 2.5 grams of proteins (10 kcal), 0.3 grams of fats (2 kcal) and 4.2 grams of carbohydrates (17 kcal).
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Chemical composition
The cauliflower contains a set of substances, useful to an organism:
- vitamins of the B, S, E, K, H group and seldom found vitamin U;
- macro - and minerals: calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, cobalt, iodine, chlorine;
- acids: tartronovy, apple and lemon;
- pectin, enzymes and food fibers.
Than the cauliflower is useful to an organism
To health and good health the cauliflower is very useful that it:
- helps to improve digestion, cleans digestive tract, interferes with developing of gastritis and ulcer;
- it will help an organism to be saved from a colon cancer, mammary glands and a prostate;
- slows down inflammatory processes;
- helps work of heart. Potassium contributes to normalization of a warm rhythm, pressure and water-salt balance of an organism;
- it is well acquired. It is authorized to people of any age to eat it, even having problems with digestion.
Let's stop in detail on useful properties of a cauliflower separately for men, women and children.
Whether you know? Germany is the record-holder country on the use of a cauliflower. In a year spend about 18 tons of this vegetable there.
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This useful vegetable allows men to keep long time vigor and working capacity. Also the cauliflower positively affects potency.
This vegetable culture helps to struggle with baldness, promotes growth of hair and regeneration of skin.
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The use of this product helps to improve a condition of hair, nails and skin thanks to vitamin C which accelerates formation in a collagen organism.
Tartronovy acid promotes removal of excess fat around hips and a stomach, and organic acids help cell regeneration, thereby keeping an organism to young people.
Using face packs as a part of which there is this product, women can get rid of wrinkles, pigmentary spots and peelings.
Read also about the vitamins promoting health of men and women.
Children
This vegetable is very useful to children too. It is used for a feeding up of small children as it is well acquired. Normalizes digestion and protects from emergence of gases and locks.
The vegetable protein which is contained in structure of vegetable stimulates appetite, strengthens bones and vessels, and low caloric content saves from children's obesity.
What can be prepared and what it is combined with
The crude cauliflower brings the greatest benefit. It is well combined with paprika and greens from which it is possible to make useful and nutritious salad.
Important! Upon purchase it is necessary to choose firm and dense heads of cabbage with small leaves and skintight inflorescences without dark stains from above.
The combination of this vegetable culture to a turmeric not only will give to a dish excellent taste, but also will prevent developing of cancer tumors.
It is also possible to make of this vegetable a tasty garnish, for example, puree. It is pickled, added to ragout and soups, also from it it is possible to make vegetarian cutlets, a pudding or to bake fritters. This product is actively used for clinical nutrition. At treatment of pancreatitis and other diseases of digestive tract use cauliflower juice, prepare it in the double boiler or bake in an oven.
We advise to read about useful properties and culinary application of vegetables: carrots, cucumber, eggplants, pumpkin, celery, girasol, spinach, cape gooseberry, green and black radish, corn.
Whether it is possible to eat on a diet
Seeking to lose weight it is necessary to eat this useful product, it has low caloric content, and thanks to tartronovy acid does not allow an organism to accumulate fat.
Vitamin U which is contained in a cauliflower promotes exchange of fats and fast assimilation of oil-soluble vitamins.
The cauliflower is a source of folic acid which helps to be acquired to group B vitamins, and they, in turn, positively influence fat and carbohydrate exchange.
This product contains the fibers cleaning intestines from disintegration products that will be useful for weight loss. Important plus of the use of this vegetable culture at weight loss is the fast feeling of saturation which is reached thanks to fibers as a part of cabbage.
Important! A cauliflower period of storage no more than 10 days, long storage is possible only in the deep freeze.
Whether it is possible at pregnancy and breastfeeding
This product, undoubtedly, is useful to pregnant women, during this period vitamins of group B and folic acid (B9 vitamin) which is responsible for the correct formation of a brain and nervous system of the kid are especially necessary for them, and its deficiency can cause various pathologies.
This vegetable also helps to solve such problems of pregnant women and the feeding women as locks and presence of excess weight.
No danger is observed also when feeding by a breast. However mother should look at reaction of the kid attentively. If the child has an allergy or the chair will be broken, it is necessary to reduce amount of vegetable in a diet or to move away him completely.
Whether you know? The biggest head of cabbage of a cauliflower was grown up in 2014 and weighed more than 27 kilograms.
Contraindications and harm
Despite a large number of pluses, some nuances also are accompanied by application of a cauliflower. With care this product needs to be used:
- to people with the increased acidity of a stomach, ulcers and gastritises. It can cause irritation of mucous and strengthen pain;
- suffering from an allergy;
- to people with diseases of kidneys and elevated pressure.
- undergone an operation in a breast or an abdominal cavity.
This vegetable culture can be dangerous to patients with gout because of purines in its structure. In a large number they are capable to increase concentration of the uric acid causing a disease recurrence.
Introduction to a diet of a cauliflower is recommended to people of all age. Possessing full information on structure and opportunities of this useful product, you will be able to provide the organism with vitamins and useful substances and also to enjoy its pleasant taste.