Eat delicious cabbage to stay healthy without forgetting dietary taboos

Chinese cabbage

• Other names: cabbage, Chinese cabbage

• Suitable for: general population, patients with cardiovascular disease

• Unsuitable people: People with cold constitution, poor gastrointestinal function, and chronic gastroenteritis

Cabbage contains protein, fat, multiple vitamins (A, B, C, D) and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Cabbage also contains a large amount of crude fiber, which can promote intestinal wall peristalsis, help digestion, prevent dry stools, and keep bowel movements smooth.

Purchase Tips and Taboos

Choose cabbage that is fresh, tender green, compact and firm. Cabbages that are infested with insects, are loose, have rough stems, have shriveled and yellow leaves, carry too much soil, and are poorly developed are of poor quality.

Cooking Tips and Don'ts

• Recommended: When cutting cabbage, it is best to cut it into thin strips so that it is easier to cook and reduces water loss.

• Taboo: When cooking, do not blanch or blanch the food to avoid losing a lot of water.

Food precautions

• Suitable for people suffering from chronic habitual constipation, colds, lung heat cough, sore throat, abdominal distension and fever.

• Taboo: Chinese cabbage is cool in nature. People with stomach cold, abdominal pain, loose stools and cold dysentery should not eat too much. Avoid eating rotten cabbage. Cabbage will produce toxins during the rotting process. The nitrite produced can cause the hemoglobin in the blood to lose its oxygen-carrying capacity, leading to severe hypoxia in the human body and even life-threatening.

Food Compatibility and Incompatibility

1. Cabbage + pork liver = nourishing. Cabbage clears away heat, and pork liver replenishes blood. The combination of the two has a nourishing effect.

2. Cabbage + carp = improve pregnancy edema. Cabbage and carp can provide rich protein, carbohydrates, vitamin C and other nutrients, and are auxiliary treatment foods for pregnancy edema.

3. Cabbage + pork = supplement nutrition and promote bowel movement. Eating cabbage and pork together can supplement nutrition and help defecation. It is suitable for people with malnutrition, anemia, dizziness, and dry stools.

4. Cabbage + shrimp = prevent and treat gum bleeding, relieve fever and dryness

5. Cabbage + kelp, fish and other seafood = prevent iodine deficiency

6. Cabbage + pepper = promote gastrointestinal motility and help digestion

7. Cabbage + rabbit meat = diarrhea or vomiting. Rabbit meat is cold in nature and can easily cause diarrhea, while cabbage has a laxative effect. Eating them together is more likely to cause diarrhea or vomiting.

Storage precautions

If the temperature is above 0℃, you can put a plastic bag on the cabbage leaves, without tying the opening, and place it with the roots facing down.

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