The nettle is tried to be avoided as the touch to it is painful and causes the naggers for a long time. However this plant has a number of useful properties for a human body. For a long time it is used as means for treatment of a number of diseases, it contains a large amount of valuable vitamins and minerals. Except as for preparation of medicines, the nettle is also eaten — do salads of it, cook soups, eaten fresh. About advantage of krapivny soup read in our material.
The nettle is a perennial grassy plant which contains about 50 types. Two are most widespread in our latitudes: dvudomny and burning.
This grass can grow to 2 m in height, on average the stalk reaches 60 cm. It is known that the touch to its foliage burns skin of the person. There is it because on a nettle family leaves there are hairs which contain formic acid. So the plant secured itself against the animals eating a grass.
Whether you know? In England more than 20 years the championship on eating of a nettle is held. In the same country do wine of a grass plant. That three liters of alcoholic drink turned out, it is necessary to collect 40 kg of leaves.
The nettle is a well of useful vitamins and minerals. We suggest to consider its diverse chemical composition in more detail.
- beta carotene — 7-10 mg on 100 g;
- vitamin A (Retinolum) — 0.1 mg;
- group B vitamins — 0.07 mg;
- With — 10 mg;
- To — 3.4-4 mg.
- Fe (iron) — 41 mg on 100 g;
- Cu (copper) — 1.3 mg;
- Mn (manganese) — 8.2 mg;
- B (pine forest) — 4.3 mg;
- Ti (titanium) — 2.7 mg;
- Ni (nickel) — 0.03 mg.
Besides, the plant is rich in a chlorophyll, sugar, tannins, phytoncides, organic acids, porphyrines.
Read also about medicinal properties of herbs: thyme, sage, hyssop, wormwood, hawthorn, linden, bearberry, dyagilya, Kalgan, thistle, lyubistka, solyankas, ekhinatse, ivan-tea, fenugreek, marjoram, motherwort.
- styptic;
- bile-expelling;
- anti-inflammatory;
- immunomodulatory;
- all-toning.
- establishing carbohydrate and proteinaceous exchange;
- improvement of work of cardiovascular, respiratory systems;
- prevention and treatment of anemia;
- acceleration of regeneration of mucous membranes of digestive organs;
- digestion strengthening;
- improvement of a metabolism;
- removal of hazardous substances from an organism.
Whether you know? "Stings" of a nettle which grows in our latitudes are harmless. And here in New Zealand the krapivny tree grows, having touched which it is possible to die.
- proteins — 1.5 g on 100 g of a product (1.5% of standard daily rate of the person);
- fats — 0.4 g (1%);
- carbohydrates — 5 g (3%).
If to consider nutrition value of the nettle soup cooked from such ingredients: the fresh nettle (300 g), onions (100 g), flour (30 g), butter (25 g), egg (50 g), greens (50 g), water (1 l), will contain in 100 of its grams 31.4 kcal. The recommended portion in 398 g contains 122.1 kcal. This recipe of soup is included into the recommendations of some diets for weight loss.
The nettle soup (150 g) made on chicken broth with chicken fillet (400 g), potatoes (0.5 kg), onions (75 g), carrots (75 g), greens (40 g) and vegetable oil (17 g) will be less high-calorie, its nutrition value will be 29.5 kcal on 100 g. Caloric content of a portion in 251 g will be 74.1 kcal.
We will try to understand this section what advantage of soup from a nettle, and whether can be from it harm.
Whether you know? In the Land of the rising sun in combination with silk made expensive armor of Samurais, boards and bowstrings for onions of a nettle.
First, first course is recommended to include surely in the menu in winter and spring time, in the period of the shortage of vitamins. It will help to slip this stage with ease, having filled an organism with missing valuable components. A nettle family leaves is almost polyvitaminic concentrate. It will be simpler to the organism saturated with vitamins to struggle with viruses and bacteria. It means that its protective forces will become stronger.
Secondly, nettle soup is advised to eat to the people inclined to increase in sugar in blood. There are data that the grass has ability to lower its level.
Diuretic properties of krapivny soup will also be that who has insignificant problems with kidneys by the way. However if at the person sand or stones are revealed, this dish can be eaten only after consultation with the attending physician.
We recommend to learn how to cook such soups as: kharcho, onions, pumpkin cream soup, gazpacho, beetroot soup, rassolnik from beef, Russian cabbage soup green and borsch
During the periods of stresses and nervous tension it is also good to regale on soup, it well influences activity of nervous system.
The Krapivny dish, certainly, will help to purify blood. However here the main thing is not to be overzealous with it as it has properties to thicken it.
All people can have a soup on a table practically, except for those to whom the nettle is contraindicated. Pediatricians advise children to give krapivny soup, since three years. It is necessary to enter it gradually, paying attention to reaction of a children's organism.
Raw materials for soup can be collected in April-May and also throughout all summer. For cookery use only a top. During collecting it is necessary to protect hands gloves. It is better to grow up it independently or to get from the checked people as the grass which is grown up in the polluted places will do only harm, but not advantage.
Important! Soup should be cooked only from young escapes. Only under such condition the advantage of it will be maximum. Besides, it is necessary to choose plants which grew in eco-friendly areas.
Krapivny soup can be cooked a set of ways. On the Internet there are several recipes where are taken as a basis water, vegetable, meat, chicken broths. It is possible to cook usual thin soup, and it is possible to diversify the menu with cream soup.
As the grass has diuretic action, drugs and dishes with it in structure should not be in a diet of the people having an urolithic disease or other diseases of kidneys.
As the nettle is capable to increase blood clotting, it cannot be eaten with that at whom varicosity is observed. It is better for hypertensive persons not to use it also to aterosklerotika, those who is inclined to allergic reactions.
The nettle is included into the list of herbs which are a taboo for pregnant women. The plant is capable to strengthen sokratitelny activity of a uterus that can lead to the premature end of pregnancy.
And here to the feeding mothers recommend to regale to a nettle family on soup, on the contrary. The nettle will promote the fastest return of a uterus to former parameters. In this case strengthening of reductions of genital body will be just by the way.
It is forbidden to eat a dish nettle family to the children who did not reach three-year age.
So, the nettle is a valuable medicative and food herb. From its leaves prepare means for traditional medicine and cosmetology. It is one of components of several pharmacological medicines, in particular that which register at burns and wounds, locks, GIT problems, prostatitis, as the diuretic and all-strengthening means. From a nettle cook soups, Russian cabbage soup, borsches, do vitamin salads.
Important! Raw materials for culinary dishes and medicines cannot be collected along roads, dumps, garbage platforms, in city conditions as the plant can absorb harmful elements of the environment. Before the use it needs to be washed and watered with boiled water, and then to knead slightly in hands.
Dishes are often applied in the dietary purposes as they are vitamin and low-calorie. As the nettle along with useful properties has also a number of contraindications to the use, I go with it as with one of ingredients, too not all can use. Before regularly eating this product, it is necessary to study the list of contraindications.