Dear friends, hello! I am glad to welcome everyone and today I want to discuss with you a wonderful edible plant - broccoli cabbage, useful properties and contraindications.
It's hard to say why you can love her more! Whether for excellent dietary and taste qualities, or for the fact that it is a valuable natural "medicine"?
After all, this herbal product, in addition to the usual nutritional value, helps prevent the development of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and is also useful for all adherents of a healthy lifestyle, allowing you to maintain youth and beauty for many years.
Broccoli cabbage, the beneficial properties and contraindications of which are well known to scientists and doctors today, should also become known to every person in the same way. After all, many people bypass it in the store. To some, it seems too expensive, but someone just heard little about its properties.
Useful properties of broccoli
Broccoli contains many different vitamins. Wikipedia has the following information on this:
Almost one fork can provide a family of 4 with vitamin C and K! Super!
All vitamins and minerals are super important components for people leading a lifestyle aimed at health. If children, starting from the age of six months and throughout childhood, include broccoli cabbage in their diet, they will be protected from many diseases for life and will have strong immunity.
Do sick people need vitamins and minerals? And how! Broccoli will help and protect you from the widest range of sores, ailments and serious ailments, because tissue metabolism always requires a large amount of these nutritional components.
I think that vitamins with minerals are good, but broccoli has even more beneficial properties for which it is necessary to introduce it into your diet, and now we will talk about these properties.
Cancer protection of broccoli
Cancer cells are constantly forming in our body. But they are immediately destroyed by antioxidant systems that protect organs and tissues, then they are transferred to the liver by blood flow and neutralized there.
Broccoli found in cabbage glucoraphanin. When we chew cabbage, the plant enzyme microsinase is released. This enzyme converts glucoraphanin to sulforaphane.
Scientists have found that sulforaphane It has powerful anti-cancer properties and is an antioxidant protective factor against the development of cancer.
Broccoli has an exceptionally high content of glucoraphanin compared to any other food. The same can be said about her, comparing broccoli with other cruciferous representatives: cauliflower, radish, turnip and so on.
The second substance that is present in large quantities in broccoli and has pronounced anti-cancer properties is called indole-3-carbinol.
Its beneficial properties are needed, first of all, to prevent the development of dishormonal tumors in women. Indole-3-carbinol prevents the excessive synthesis of pathological forms of estrogens.
On the basis of broccoli cabbage, very good dietary supplements have been created, which are used to prevent mastopathy and breast cancer, fibroids and cancer of the pelvic organs (cervix, bladder, colon damage).
