The mangold or as still call this plant, sheet beet, is at the same time officinal and ornamental plant which belongs to Amarantov' family.
It is the grassy vegetable having pleasant taste. In external parameters he reminds spinach, can yield a harvest during the whole season. As food use stalks and leaves of this plant.
Those who are engaged in a flower cultivation often land an unpretentious mangold on the beds. In more detail we will tell about all features of sheet beet further.
That for a plant
The mangold belongs to two-year sheet plants. In fact, it is one of a set of types of beet. Distinctive feature of such vegetable is that it is possible to eat not a root but only scapes or leaves (depending on a grade).
It is rather simple to grow up the considered plant as in leaving the mangold is unpretentious. Productivity of culture high: from one bush it is possible to take about 1 kg of greens. Tastes of vegetable excellent therefore a green part is used everywhere as substitute of many other sheet vegetables. The discussed sheet vegetable is appreciated not only gentle taste, but also a large amount of useful substances which contain in it. In structure there are many mineral elements and vitamins which are extremely important for good health of the person and normal functioning of its organism.
The mangold helps to strengthen the immune system and also promotes in an izlechivaniye of some diseases. Exactly thanks to such characteristics this plant is grown up on the site by many summer residents.
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Types
The mangold happens two types: petiolar and sheet. Let's talk in more detail about each of them.
Stem
Petiolar or stem the type of a mangold differs in the fact that leaves at such grade rather small whereas stalks large and juicy.
Scapes are used in cookery and can become a certain substitute of an asparagus. In order that scapes reached the maximum sizes, summer residents carry out special cutting of leaves.
Shnitt-mangold
The grade a shnitt-mangold differs from previous in what scapes at it is essential already, and here leaves, on the contrary, fleshy and large. This look is called still the Roman cabbage. In cookery they can easily replace salad, spinach, cabbage and other sheet vegetables. At all this, the considered grade is frost-resistant and can grow in the spring even from the rewintering root.
Whether you know? Began to cultivate a mangold in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. In Ancient Rome this plant was given the name Roman cabbage.
Structure and caloric content
Interesting the fact that sheet beet consists of water approximately for 93%, leaving only 7% of lump for solid substances. Despite this, to a mangold not to occupy unique curative properties.
Besides proteins, fats and carbohydrates, at culture there are food fibers, ashes, fatty acids and polyphenols. Plant caloric content very low: only 19 kcal are the share of 100 g of a mangold that allows to call him a dietary product.
are also among: broccoli, carrots, asparagus, spinach, celery, cucumbers, fennel greens, parsley, eggplants, sea cabbage, girasol, pumpkin and cauliflower.
If to include such vegetable in a daily food allowance, then it will be possible not only to get rid of extra kilos, but also to considerably improve a condition of the health.
Thanks to the fact that in leaflets of the considered culture there is a betaine the mangold finds the special value as this substance helps to split and acquire animal and vegetable proteins.
Also in vegetable there is an essential amount of potassium, sodium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and zinc. There are also group B vitamins, ascorbic acid, manganese, beta carotene and so forth.
Important! Despite a set of merits of a mangold, it is necessary to use it in moderate quantities. The plant incorporates the impressive volume of vitamin K which in excessive quantity is capable to provoke formation of blood clots because of which migraine attacks can become more frequent.
Useful properties
Medical characteristics which effectively work in the presence of such diseases are peculiar to a mangold:
- diabetes;
- hepatitis;
- obesity;
- sclerosis;
- anemia;
- atherosclerosis;
- elevated pressure.
For prevention of atherosclerosis is also shown to use chicory, a black mountain ash, potato juice, crude beet, a bee subpestilence, cottage cheese and a hawthorn.
Thanks to the low level of caloric content of such plant, it helps to say goodbye to extra kilos and also makes the all-strengthening impact on an organism. The mangold improves functional work of a liver and pancreas, vessels and heart, a limfosistema and immunity in general.
- The betaines which are present at structure make significant detoksikatsionny impact on a human body, removing salts which are not dissolved, purifying with that blood.
- The mangold is very useful to children as it contains a lot of calcium. Due to such feature, vegetable promotes strengthening of bones and teeth of the developing child.
- Can become the full-fledged supplier of calcium in an organism of those people who have intolerance of lactose.
- Helps to cope with an anemia, spring avitaminosis, sleep disorder and also is effective at fight against a cataract.
- Well works as prevention of cancer.
- Thanks to existence of a large amount of food fibers, normalizes functional work of intestines. Also vegetable can serve as soft depletive.
- Has anti-inflammatory characteristics thanks to what it can successfully be applied at treatment of abscesses, burns, barley, conjunctivitis and so forth.
- Will weaken a toothache, will help to get rid of warts and also will make skin of lighter.
Whether you know? For the first time in the medical purposes Paracelsus who applied culture at treatment of diseases of blood began to use a mangold.
Contraindications and harmful properties
Besides that the considered grassy culture has a set of useful qualities, there are also some contraindications to its application in food.
- First of all, it is necessary to pay attention to individual intolerance of such plant. As well as many other vegetable cultures, a mangold it is capable to cause in isolated cases allergic reaction of an organism.
- Also it is necessary to remember its moderate consumption. It is especially important to observe such restriction to those people who accept any vitamin complexes. As it was already noted above, the mangold contains a large amount of vitamin K therefore it is necessary to watch to allowing a surplus of this component in an organism.
- Fresh juice of a mangold cannot be used. It is connected with the fact that it emits such volatiles which can make dizziness, sick and vomiting. Therefore it is not necessary to cook from sheet beet of smoothie. First it is necessary to allow juice to infuse for some time that harmful elements managed to evaporate.
- It is forbidden to use a mangold (especially in large numbers) to people who have thrombophlebitis.
- It is necessary to refuse inclusion in a diet of the considered plant also to those who suffer from migraine, has the raised cholesterol, sand or stones in kidneys.
Important! Before the use it is necessary to wash out carefully a product as it is capable to accumulate essential amount of natural nitrates. Boiling vegetable, the first water needs to be merged. Thus it is possible to get rid of 80-85% of nitrates.
As it is correct to choose upon purchase
It is not difficult to choose vegetable culture in shop at all. It is necessary to pay attention to color of greens which has to be bright. Stalks have to be crispy and juicy. It is very important that on a green part there were no brown or yellow spots. As culinary specialists advise, it is better to select plants with small leaves as they are more gentle and nice to the taste.
Rules of storage
The fresh mangold should be stored in the fridge, previously having placed it in a plastic bag and having densely turned. So it will be able to lie without loss of quality about 5 days. To prolong the storage period, it is possible to pour a mangold tops of vegetable the moistened sand.
It is very important to remember that it is impossible to wash a plant before sending for storage in the fridge, otherwise the product quickly will begin to rot. If there is a wish to make preparation for longer term, then the simplest option of storage of a mangold, certainly, is freezing.
Rather only carefully to wash out a plant, to dry it and to cut pieces on averages of the sizes. Further the product should be spread out in packages and to send to the freezer. There it will be able to be stored all winter. The frozen mangold can be boiled, extinguished, used as seasoning for garnishes subsequently and so forth. In such look vegetable will keep the maximum quantity of vitamins.
It is important! In order that the product did not stick together, recommended to get approximately in a day packages from the fridge and to stir up properly.
The mangold belongs to those plants which contain extraordinary large number of useful elements. Having put such culture on the site, it is possible to provide itself not only with a variety of tasty dishes, but also useful means for strengthening of an organism.