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Lettuce and other salad greens Useful properties: - Low-calorie food - Useful source folic acid and бета-carotin Lacks: - Often use in food with butter, sour cream and other high-calorific salad refuellings which conduct to completeness Though in leaves of salad 90 % there are not enough calories, and water almost, they contain set of valuable substances - vitamin C, beta-carotin, folic acid, calcium and iron. Nutritional value of salad greens depends not only on a kind of a plant, but also from a season, freshness and even from that, internal it is leaves of a plant or external. As all salads contain very few calories, they obtains at drawing up of a diet for growing thin provided that them do not flavour special importance fat salad refuellings. The majority of kinds of greens - a useful source folic acid, vitamin, important for pregnant women and for those who plans pregnancy. This vitamin prevents development of congenital uglinesses - a harelip, the wolf mouth and splitting of a backbone. Depending on that, it is how much strong pigmentedleaves, salad is a useful source of such antioxidant, as beta-carotin which helps{assists} to prevent development of some degenerate diseases, for example a cancer and an atherosclerosis. External dark leaves can contain in 50 times more beta-carotin, than pale internal. In tradition herbal medecine it is considered to be, that leaves of salad possess calming action, and the big plate of fresh salad is recommended, as the good means removing a nervous pressure and causing a dream. Two more kinds of extremely useful salad greens is a spinach and watercress. Crude spinach - a fine source folic acid, and also vitamin C. Watercress - a magnificent source of vitamin C and бета-carotin; in it{him} iron also contains. Familiar grades of salads. Ordinary salad. Soft light green leaves with a gentle smell. In current of many years it was a unique grade of salad which was on sale in the markets. Chicory sheet (Cichorium endivia, endive). Pale, extended, densely compressed in head s of cabbage the leaves crackling, with a bitterish smell. The Chinese (Peking) cabbage. Head of cabbage the cylindrical form with pale-green leaves and wide white crackling proveins. Cos salad (Lactuca sativa var. romana). Extended dense fragrant leaves. Endive curly. The curly jagged leaves reminding under the form fern. External leaves bitterish, and internal - with weak bitterish smack. It is very popular in France. Curly lettuce. To taste it is similar on usual, but has more rigid leaves with a little sharper taste. Iceberg. The round, densely compressed pale-green leaves crackling, with soft taste. Extremely useful source folic acid. Spinach. A salad plant, with which it is necessary to wash carefully to remove the stuck ground. Watercress. The representative of family crucifers, is considered preventive means from some forms of a cancer.
Brassica chinensis, celery (Chinese) cabbage, pakchoi 
Lettuce 
Spinach 
Endive (Cichorium endivia) 
Lactuca sativa, romana, Cos salad
Translated from goodfood.h1.ru Thursday, 21 June 2007. |
