Healthy and nutritious vegetables for the middle class

In our daily healthy diet, we often think that the most nutritious part of food is in fruit. As we all know, the leaves of some vegetables are more nutritious. For example, the food nutrition in sweet potato leaves can effectively help the human body improve immunity, so eating more in winter will not catch a cold. Below, we will introduce the nutritional functions of three kinds of vegetable leaves to you, so that you can eat vegetables healthily and scientifically.

Nutritional function of three kinds of vegetable leaves;

Sweet potato leaves: improve immunity.

Sweet potato leaves are actually tender leaves at the top of the stem after sweet potato matures. Compared with ordinary vegetables, the content of minerals and vitamins is better, and the content of carotene is even higher than that of carrots.

Sweet potato leaves have health care functions such as improving immunity and preventing night blindness. Regular consumption can prevent constipation, protect eyesight, keep skin delicate and delay aging. At present, sweet potato stem tip is listed as one of the healthy and longevity dishes with great development prospects in the United States.

Japan and other countries even listed sweet potato stalks as longevity food or space food. There are many ways to eat sweet potato leaves. For example, choose fresh and tender leaf tips, blanch them with boiling water, and make a cold salad with sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, Chili oil, mustard and ginger juice. The appearance is light green, which can make people have a big appetite.

You can also fry sweet potato leaves with shredded pork, which is fragrant and sweet and has a unique flavor. In addition, it is also a good choice to cook porridge with sweet potato leaves.

Lettuce leaves: supplementing "beauty vitamins"

Readers who have eaten lettuce leaves know that it tastes a little bitter, so lettuce leaves are often thrown away as garbage. But you may not know that its nutritional value is actually higher than its stem.

For example, β -carotene is 9.7 times higher than stem, and vitamin C is 14 times higher than stem. β -carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the small intestine. Vitamin A can protect the epidermis of the skin and make people's skin soft, shiny and elastic, so it is also called "beauty vitamin".

Lettuce leaves are rich in vitamin C, which can block the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines. Blanch lettuce leaves with boiling water to make noodles, which are not only fragrant but also nutritious. You might as well try.

Radish leaves: iron and calcium supplements are the most powerful.

Radish stems and leaves have high nutritional value and have the functions of appetizing, stopping diarrhea and stopping dysentery. Radish leaves contain a lot of carotene, and the content of vitamin A per 100 g is 1400IU, which is more than three times that of broccoli. The content of calcium is 238 mg per100g, which is more than four times that of spinach. Iron content is five times that of eels.

Vitamin B 1 is 60% more than that of douchi, and vitamin B2 is four times that of beef. So it is not difficult to see that the nutritional value of radish leaves is really amazing.

These are the nutritional functions of the three kinds of vegetable leaves we introduced to you. These three kinds of vegetables are often eaten on weekdays. Next time, when we eat these vegetables, we can't waste the good nutrition of the leaves. In addition, in our daily healthy diet, there are many nutritious foods that we will ignore, so it is even more necessary for us to pay attention to nutrition knowledge and correct wrong eating habits.