The radish — popular vegetable which always is on sale possesses useful substances and vitamins, quickly grows including on a balcony. Low-calorie vegetable therefore its use is recommended to persons interested to lose weight and also to have smart hair and strong nails. What therapeutic properties the garden radish has and also advantage and harm of its use, we will consider in this article.
Description
The radish began to be grown up for the first time in China, from there it also began the distribution on the world. In the Middle Ages the garden radish was very much appreciated as was considered that it contributes to the development of mind and good digestion. Today the garden radish is international vegetable and is grown up almost worldwide.
Whether you know? The huge radish weighing 2.45 kilograms, with a diameter of 19 centimeters and root of 25 cm long grew in 1993 in Switzerland (Canton of Bern). When cleaning bulk of a harvest, vegetable was left accidentally on a bed. The radish continued to grow till fall, and by September reached the record weight and volume.
Edible part at a garden radish is a roundish or extended thick root. Usually vegetable quite sharp on taste, but is also softer grades, without slightly bitter taste. It is possible to meet red, red-white, black-and-white, yellow and absolutely white grades of a radish.
Structure and nutrition value
In this vegetable there are not enough calories, but it is a lot of useful minerals and vitamins.
Nutrition value of a garden radish (in 100 g):
- power value — 14 kcal;
- proteins — 1.1 g;
- fats — 0.10 g;
- carbohydrates — 2 g;
- fibers — 1.6 g;
- water — 94 g.
We advise to read about useful properties and application of radish: white, black, green.
Vitamins:
- vitamin C — 29 mg;
- B1 vitamin — 0.04 mg;
- niatsin (B3) — 0.254 mg;
- B6 vitamin — 0.06 mg;
- B2 vitamin — 0.04 mg;
- vitamin A — 4 mkg;
- salicylic acid — 1.24 mg.
Minerals:
- calcium — 35 mg;
- iron — 1.2 mg;
- magnesium — 8 mg;
- phosphorus — 28 mg;
- potassium — 225-255 mg;
- sodium — 17 mg.
Useful properties
The garden radish participates in normal functioning of a human body:
- stimulates appetite and digestion;
- supports function of a liver;
- accelerates a metabolism;
- increases appetite;
- helps work of a stomach at dyspepsia;
- saturates an organism with minerals;
- is antibacterial and resolvent;
- helps digestive system and work of a liver;
- cleans an organism from toxins;
- prevents anemia;
- improves hair, nails, clears skin of eels;
- removes pesticides and radionuclides.
Learn what vitamins are necessary for health of a liver, hair, nails.
The garden radish should be included in a diet to ladies, it is very useful to female beauty. With its help it is possible to return fortress to hair, to clean face skin and even to get a slim figure. Presence of large amounts of potassium improves a condition of skin (especially at pimples and seborrhea), strengthens hair and nails. At regular consumption of a garden radish the fragility and loss of hair also decreases, their fat content decreases to normal, dandruff disappears.
Study recipes of hair preparations with a camomile, olive oil, beet and also face skin with a camomile and olive oil.
The radish promotes weight loss not only because of the small caloric content, but also because it accelerates a metabolism in an organism. Potassium — an element which actively participates in combustion of fats and carbohydrates. Fiber from a garden radish — improves function of intestines (counteracts locks), reduces appetite, limits absorption to an organism of fats.
Medicinal properties
The garden radish is useful at various illnesses:
- From heart troubles and a hypertension — as a part of a garden radish there is a food fiber which interferes with absorption of fats and cholesterol from food, thereby reducing its level in blood. Thanks to potassium content, it is possible to reduce also arterial blood pressure. With risk of cardiovascular diseases (hypertension or too high level of cholesterol) it is daily useful for people to eat 3-4 radish.
- For increase in immunity — garden radish salad for lunch or a breakfast gives to an organism the necessary dose of vitamins (especially C, B1, B2 and beta carotene) and also delivers minerals which strengthen an organism and improve immunity. It is ideal food before examination (improves concentration of attention).
- For a conclusion of radionuclides — the eaten garden radish improves function of a liver, carries out the general detoxication and also stimulates release of bile. It helps to remove toxins from a digestive tract and all organism.
- For digestion improvement — this vegetable helps digestion of fat products, accelerates an intestines vermicular movement, prevents indigestion and a lock.
- For strong and beautiful hair — consumption of this vegetable promotes reduction of a hair loss and stimulates their growth and also prevents release of skin fat, the main reason that hair quickly become oily.
- As antianaemic means — garden radish salads are ideal for vegetarians and pregnant women. The useful substances which are contained in a radish are necessary for haemo poetic processes that, in turn, prevents anemia.
- For treatment of kidneys — the people inclined to manifestations of puffiness have to include garden radish dishes in the menu. These vegetables have diuretic properties, help functioning of kidneys and prevent formation of stones.
- For weight loss. A radish — a dietary product: low-calorie, but having a lot of cellulose which fills a stomach, giving feeling of satiety for a long time.
Learn how to correct food to take care of health of kidneys.
National recipes
With a garden radish you can prepare a nutritious mask for hair. For this purpose it is necessary to wipe a radish on a small grater or to crush in the blender. Then the wiped weight is mixed with a small amount of olive oil. Liquid weight is rubbed in hair and is left for 10-15 minutes, then hair are washed out with shampoo. To repeat the procedure two times a week. After three-four procedures the hair will get stronger and will begin to shine.
Whether you know? The fried radish — sounds very strange, but, it appears, there is also such dish. Generally it is used as a garnish for meat. For its preparation the garden radish is fried with addition of parsley, cilantro, seeds of mustard and sesame.
The recipes which came from traditional medicine:
- From a lock — to fill in the crushed young leaves of a garden radish with boiled water and to cook 70-80 minutes. To drink 3 days in a row, in half an hour after a meal. This broth stimulates work of a liver and renders soft laxative effect on intestines.
- Clarification of a liver including after hepatitis (jaundice) — to fill in a handful of young leaves of a garden radish with 2 glasses of water. To cook on small fire until in a saucepan there is no half of liquid. To add 1-2 tablespoons of sugar to ready broth and to cool.
- For dissolution of stones in a bladder and biliary tract — 10 ml of red wine and 2-3 roots of a garden radish (about 150 g) are ground and mix up in the blender. It is a portion for one-time reception. To accept once a day after a meal, at once after preparation.
- Treatment of a fungus standing — dry up leaves of a garden radish and grind them in powder. To wash up and to carefully dry up legs, especially between fingers. To process (to strew) with redisochny powder foot, a shin and between toes. Powder can also be poured into socks and to put on them per day, it is possible to sleep in such socks at night. Repeat the procedure so many time how many it will be required before full healing. Dried leaves of a garden radish are very effective in fight against skin and nail fungi.
- Treatment of inflammation of gums — for treatment daily eat salad from 100-150 g of a very young radish which is used together with its green tails.
It is important! Before beginning treatment with folk remedies, it is necessary to consult surely with the attending physician.
The use at pregnancy and to the feeding mothers
Well balanced diet, vitamin-rich and minerals, is very important not only for healthy nutrition of mother who nurses, but also for the child because it affects quality of milk.
The garden radish — very useful vegetable, but can cause some discomfort in digestion of the baby. Of course, it depends on individual predispositions, but always, entering new products and increasing their use, you have to watch reaction of the kid. Most of doctors do not recommend to use a radish during pregnancy.
Whether you know? On the International Space Station, tests on cultivation of vegetables and other plants were carried out. The radish was grown successfully up in an orbit too. The main criterion in the choice of this culture for orbital cultivation were: fast vegetation (30-45 days), edibility of both roots, and green scapes.
Correctly we choose
The garden radish is the very first fresh vegetable which appears on counters in the early spring. To the middle of May on sale there is generally a radish from greenhouses. Unfortunately, such products may contain too many nitrates capable to do harm to human health. Therefore, choosing a radish, it is necessary to pay attention not only to appetency of a back of a garden radish, but also to leaves — they should not be decoloured or yellow as it indicates presence of nitrates. If vegetable has the huge sizes, it is a strong indication of the fact that it was grown up on shock doses of nitrogen. Vegetable has to have a smooth thin skin, without mold and places spoiled by decay.
Whether you know? Daikon is a kind of a garden radish and the close relative of the Chinese radish. Daikon pulp firm and juicy, taste has characteristic light slightly bitter taste, as at a radish. It is considered that daikon appeared as a result of natural selection in Japan.
Harm and contraindications
In a radish very high content of mustard oils, glycosides and organic acids therefore there are categories of people to which it is is impossible:
- People cannot use it with ulcers of stomach and duodenum, hepatitis, diseases of a gall bladder, gastrointestinal and pancreatic diseases, a serious illness of kidneys and sore heart.
- At gastric or intestinal diseases the frequent use of a garden radish in food can cause sudden deterioration in the state of health therefore in such cases it can be eaten not more often than once a week.
- It can cause allergic reactions in the people having an allergy to salicylic acid.
- At the weakened thyroid gland it is undesirable to use this vegetable.
- Vegetable is inclined to accumulate a large amount of nitrogen in the early spring. Pregnant women, children and people weakened by a disease should not at this time the garden radish is. It is worth waiting for maturing of later grades, at them there will be no hazardous substances.
What it is combined also consumption rates with
The garden radish adds sharpness and taste to sandwiches, cottage cheese, salads. Salads from it can be eaten between the basic meals, they are low-calorie snack (on 100 g only 14 kcal). Such salads are cooked with natural yogurts or sour cream. In other countries the garden radish is extinguished, with it cook also first courses. But in our country this useful vegetable can be used generally fresh.
In salads it is possible to combine eggs, greens of fennel and a basil, green onions, cucumbers, cabbage, beet, corn, peas, avocado, walnuts, olive oil with a radish.
The radish consumed in large numbers can even cause irritation of a stomach and an abdominal distension in healthy people. You can safely consume up to 300 g of a garden radish a day.
As it is correct to store
On arrival home vegetables should be washed up, dried and stored in the closed containers as the lack of oxygen does not allow nitrates to turn into harmful nitrites carefully. Best of all vegetable is stored in the cool place: fridge, cellar, cold storeroom. At the correct storage, vegetables will remain fresh and elastic within a week.
Cultivation
It is the best of all to grow up a garden radish most in the spring, then in it there will be no harmful impurity, only vitamins, macro - both minerals and other advantage for health. The garden radish is absolutely simply grown up, quickly grows, it can be seeded in usual boxes or flowerpots just on a solar balcony. How to grow up:
- In the capacity filled with fertile soil make deepenings in the form of grooves.
- Depth of a groove has to be 1-1.5 cm.
- Then spread out on grooves seeds with distance between them in 3 cm.
- Cover the seeded seeds with the soil and slightly water.
- Further water landings regularly, but it is not too plentiful.
- The first sprouts will appear in 5-6 days, and you will try the first house radish in three weeks.
Young people of a radish eat together with leaves which have gentle taste and are very rich with nutrients.
If desired it is possible to seed vegetable repeatedly (two or three times). It can be done since the beginning of March until the end of May. In the summer the radish is not grown up as is a plant of short day. It is possible to sow it since the end of August until the end of September again, to frosts you will manage to reap two-three crops.
Important! On a window sill it is possible to grow up vegetable all the year round, except summer months. Plants love well lit places therefore it is necessary to provide them additional highlighting (by means of lamps of day day) in winter time.
Now you know, this vegetable is how useful and as to grow up it. The radish not only is necessary for an organism in the early spring for replenishment of a reserve of vitamins, but also is very desired all the year round as a part of easy and tasty salads. Eat a garden radish and God bless you!