When well prepared, cabbage is not that hard to digest. This seasonal vegetable with multiple varieties has many advantages for your figure, your arteries and your brain.
• Unsuspected benefits!
Rich in fibers, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, particularly sulfur, cabbage acts on all fronts:
- Super diet: from 12 Kcal / 100g for Chinese cabbage to 40 Kcal for Brussels sprouts, including 35 Kcal for broccoli ... cabbage is a slimming food that helps you get through the winter without making any fat . Top.
- Antidiabetes: its high fiber content helps stabilize blood sugar levels, as well as its low glycemic index (IG15) induced by the presence of alphalipoic acid which burns sugars instead of storing them as well as sulforaphane (sulfur antioxidant), which also prevent complications of diabetes.
- Anticancer: its regular consumption is associated with a 30 to 50% reduction in the risk of developing cancer but also with a better ability to slow its development. In particular thanks to its antioxidant sulfur compounds (sulforaphane, sinigroside, indole ...).
- Protector of the arteries: its richness in antioxidants and its high potassium content are a barrier to cardiovascular diseases. Regular consumption fights the thickening of the artery walls and reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes by 20%.
- Friend of the brain: thanks to its richness in vitamin C, but also in vitamin K, B vitamins and carotenoids (antioxidant pigments), cabbage maintains good nerve impulses, fights depression and limits cognitive decline.
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Cooking and digestion tips
Stubborn hints after cooking and sometimes disturbed digestion: it is the sulfur compounds in cabbage, so beneficial to health, which are at the origin of these inconveniences ... which we can limit.
- Facilitate digestion: cabbage will always be more digestible when cooked than raw or al-dente. Especially cauliflower and Brussels sprout, to be cooked in two different waters (or first in water, then in steam or according to the chosen recipe).
All cabbages also benefit from being sprinkled with spices to aid digestion: star anise, cardamom, anise, cloves, fennel, juniper berry.
The sensitive intestines should especially bet on broccoli, the most digestible, and sauerkraut because predigested by fermentation.
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Additional precaution:
In case of hypothyroidism, the consumption of cabbage should be limited. Ditto for irritable bowel syndrome.
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- Limit odors: add a crouton of bread to the cooking water or 2 tbsp. of sodium bicarbonate or lemon juice, or a few bay leaves. But each cook has his own tip!
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