Showing posts with label health beneficial substances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health beneficial substances. Show all posts

4/6/09

Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance


Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance

Black radish is also medicinal herb
Black radish grows to a height of 60 centimeters
Black radish is in the kitchen widespread and popular, but should not be forgotten, nor its therapeutic significance.
This plant is a need to terminate, if we got sick or sensitive stomach or intestines, because a radish contains oil, which contains sulfur, which greatly inflate.
On the other hand radish is, if we enjoy without salt, a great asset to the problems with the liver and bile. It promotes the secretion of bile and act against jaundice, bile stone and biliary inflammation.
If to the juice of radish we add honey, we obtain ancient medicine against cough, hoarseness and mucus in the lungs.


Black Radish-Therapeutic Significance

4/1/09

Lamb's Lettuce-Prince of Salad


Lamb's Lettuce-Prince of Salad

Green and fresh
Do you know prince of salad?
Lamb's lettuce is one of the most popular salads, and a valuable fresh winter vegetable.
Lamb's lettuce started to grow in the last century, when they farmers accrue to in the field, is now grown mainly in greenhouses. It is vegetable moderately hot band, a slight taste of nuts and is one of the more expensive vegetables. Dark green lamb’s lettuce leaves contain a lot of health beneficial substances. They are full of magnesium, which increases the ability of concentration and protects against stress, as well as potassium and iron. It has five times as much pro-A and three times as much vitamin C as a major lettuce, also contains vitamin B6 and folic acid. Lamb's lettuce is a relative to Valerian, in its roots and leaves found Valerian's essential oil, it works reassuring to stomach. Because of fiber and components that promote the passage of food is effective for metabolism.
Expensive as saffron
Lamb's lettuce sold from autumn to early spring months, especially during winter time, however, due to the lack of other vegetables rather expensive. Lamb's lettuce when purchasing a high-quality identified by the dark green, at home you can in the refrigerator for several days stored in a container or plastic bag. Cleaning lamb’s lettuce is quite time consuming task, but the effort is always repaid. Usually it is prepared as a salad, very grazing with hard boiled eggs, but it may be perfectly combined with other types of lettuces and fresh herbs.
Useful materials in lamb’s lettuce keep as far as possible, if collected immediately before use and not soaked in water and serve as quickly as possible. Spices and herbs, which near lamb’s lettuce most grazing are chives, garlic, sugar and maple syrup. Nutritional value: one hundred grams lamb’s lettuce has 12 calories.


Lamb's Lettuce-Prince of Salad