It can be said that vegetables are one of the foods that are too familiar with Vietnamese rice trays. The “relaves” of the vegetable house are extremely diverse, cabbage, watercress, watercress, cabbage, basket cabbage…. and of course, sweet cabbage “brother” is indispensable. The reformer family has a lot of benefits and sweet cabbage is no exception. In this article, let’s learn with us about the benefits of sweet cabbage for health as well as delicious dishes from this vegetable.
Characteristics of sweet cabbage
Sweet cabbage belongs to the herbaceous family, round, height from 50cm to 100cm. According to oriental medicine, sweet cabbage has gentle properties, benefits the appetite, relieves chest tightness, lowers qi… If you regularly eat sweet cabbage, it can cure coughs and constipation. At the same time, sweet cabbage also supports quite well in the prevention of hemorrhoids, colon cancer, liver cancer and liver sclerosis.
Sweet cabbage can be grown all year round, but for sweet cabbage for high yield, you should plant it in the dry season. If you plant in the rainy season, you have to make a shelter and regularly monitor pests for the plants.
The harvest time is from 20 – 40 days depending on the month.
What is the effect of sweet cabbage
Clean wholesale vegetables of the cabbage family are very “healthy”, because it is not only easy to grow, easy to care for, easy to process but also good for health. Not ashamed to be a “member” of the cabbage family, sweet cabbage also carries many nutritional values.
Helps increase resistance, clears heat
In vegetables sweet cabbage contains many vitamins. Therefore, this vegetable has the effect of improving resistance, enhancing immunity, protecting the body from pathogens. Besides, cabbage also has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins. A cup of sweet cabbage soup with shrimp or meat in the summer is better?
Supports the digestive system, effectively treats constipation
Like other vegetables, sweet cabbage has a large content of fiber and mucus. Fiber helps prevent constipation, mucus supports intestinal motility, thereby promoting digestive health. People who often suffer from constipation and indigestion should add sweet cabbage to their daily menu to improve their health status.
Prevention and treatment of gout
Gout is a disease of many people, especially in the era of economic development and people’s living standards are as high as today. The reason why gout is formed is because our body consumes too many protein-rich foods such as meat, animal organs, seafood, etc. People with gout are often advised by doctors and nutritionists to reduce meat and increase green vegetables. Because green vegetables are very rich in fiber, vitamins and nutrients that can remove uric acid pathogens. During meals, you should add vegetables sweet cabbage, eat vegetables and drink broth. Sweet cabbage broth has the effect of pushing uric acid out, preventing gout. Besides, people with gout can also crush sweet cabbage, apply it to the painful area to relieve the disease.
Cancer prevention
Eating a lot of green vegetables is not only good for people with gout but also can reduce the risk of cancer. Especially such as colon cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer.
Bladder cancer often appears in older people. The reason is that at this age, movement has decreased a lot. This causes stagnant water, unable to remove waste, bacteria will arise, causing diseases and developing into bladder cancer.
According to experts, eating a lot of sweet cabbage will help prevent bladder cancer effectively. Therefore, don’t forget to add more vegetables to your diet to have a healthy body.
Helps strengthen bones
Colonial vegetables contain a relatively large amount of calcium. This is an important nutrient that helps our bone system to be strong and tall every day. Besides calcium, sweet cabbage also provides the amount of vitamin K – a necessary nutrient for the body to grow healthy. According to research, vitamin K will help increase the density of minerals in bones, minimizing fractures in people with osteoporosis. Therefore, cruciferous vegetables in general and sweet cabbage in particular are ideal foods for people with weak bones and osteoporosis.
Support the treatment of goiter
Gorrh is a common disease in women. The cause of the disease is largely due to iodine deficiency. Meanwhile, sweet cabbage contains some substances that can prevent goiter. Especially for people with hyperthyroidism. However, we also need to note that cruciferous vegetables are not good for people with hypothyroidism. Therefore, people belonging to this subject should not eat vegetables.
Effective treatment of boils
On the skin, pimples appear because we are hot in the body, food toxins and the impact of the weather. One of the effective ways to treat acne is to use sweet cabbage seeds in combination with onions. Grind sweet cabbage seeds into powder, mix with tubers, apply to acne areas. Do it once a day, persevere to be effective.
People who should not eat sweet cabbage
Sweet cabbage is very good for health, however, for some people, this vegetable is like an agent that causes the disease to change later. Therefore, if you have one of the following diseases, you should not eat sweet cabbage.
People with stomach pain: This disease often leads to bloating, bloating. If you eat a lot of sweet cabbage , you will have a lot of vitality, causing abdominal pain. Especially when eating raw cabbage.
People with kidney stones: Foods containing oxalic acid should be avoided because this substance affects the absorption of zinc and calcium. Meanwhile, sweet cabbage is also a vegetable with high oxalate content.
People with gastrointestinal inflammation: Limit eating to prevent irritation of the ulcer area.
How to grow sweet cabbage
Preparation
Soil for growing vegetables, sweet cabbage seeds, plastic pots or foam containers for growing clean vegetables, irrigation water, organic fertilizers such as cow dung, chicken manure, vermicompost.
Seeds
With 1g 50gr of seeds, you can sow 10 small-sized smart-sized pots of 67cm long – 24cm wide – 20cm high or 5 large pots.
Treat the seeds before sowing with pesticides. Seeds can be soaked in warm water with foliar fertilizer (about 1cc/1 liter of water), after 3 – 4 hours, take them out to drain the water and then incubate, then sow.
Planting technique
Depending on the type of soil you can plant immediately or need to improve the soil to grow vegetables before sowing.
When making or improving the loose soil, you spread the soil into a leveling pot and then sow the seeds on top. Because the rapeseed is small, you do not need to cover it with a thin layer of soil.
After sowing, you put the pot in a place with a lot of light and water it with clean water to make the soil very moist. Moist soil will stimulate seeds to germinate quickly. After 1 day, you will see white cabbage seeds and after 5-7 days, the vegetables have begun to appear 1 – 2 true leaves.
Sweet cabbage can be pruned and eaten young when the vegetables have 2 – 3 true leaves. Harvest or the second time when the vegetables have 3 – 5 true leaves.
Cabbage after 3 weeks of sowing, care can be harvested.
Take care of cabbage
After planting, it needs to be watered daily in the morning – evening.
Because sweet cabbage is a short-lived vegetable, it needs to be fertilized early and continuously. To ensure the safety factor, you should use organic fertilizer, it will ensure that vegetables do not poison you.
With 1kg of treated chicken manure, you can fertilize vegetables in 20 smart pots of the above size throughout the period.
Note: When growing vegetables in pots at home in cold months plus a lot of drizzle, you should sow more sparsely, water under the vegetables. This will help the seedlings not to rot roots and leaves caused by humid air.
Some delicious sweet cabbage dishes
With sweet cabbage, you can transform into many delicious dishes. But the important thing is what kind of food should be combined with, how to prepare it to be delicious and taste right. Here are the special recipes that housewives should refer to:
Attractive sweet cabbage soup with minced meat
Prepare ingredients:
- 2 bunches of sweet cabbage
- 150g delicious pork
- Dried onions
- Fresh ginger
- Spices: Cooking oil + fish sauce + MSG + seasoning + pepper.
How to do:
Step 1: Vegetables sweet cabbage remove the yellow leaves, wash, cut into pieces to eat, drain. Wash the pork with a little salt, cut into thin slices, chop. To save time you can use a blender. Marinate the minced meat with seasoning + fish sauce + pepper, leave for 15 minutes to soak the meat into spices.
Step 2: Peel the ginger, cut into strips. Peel and chop the dried onion.
Step 3: Put the pot on the stove, add cooking oil, fry the minced onion, then add the meat and stir-fry. Sprinkle a little fish sauce to make it more fragrant.
Step 4: When the minced meat is cooked, add water to cook the soup, only add a moderate amount so that the soup is not pale and less quality.
Step 5: When the pot of meat soup boils, add sweet cabbage. Wait for the soup to boil again, season to taste. Add ginger and turn off the stove. Put in a bowl, enjoy while still hot.
Sweet cabbage with meat
Sweet cabbage soup with rich shrimp
Prepare ingredients:
- 150g fresh shrimp
- 1 bunch sweet cabbage
- Ped onion
- Ginger
- Spices: Fish sauce + soup powder + seasoning + MSG + pepper.
How to do:
Step 1: Sweet cabbage with old leaves, yellow leaves, soak in diluted salt water for about 10 minutes. Then wash with clean water, drain, cut into pieces to eat.
Step 2: Peel fresh shrimp, remove the raw black thread, put in a coarse mortar. Marinate shrimp with fish sauce + seasoning + soup powder + pepper for 15 minutes to soak the shrimp in the spices.
Step 3: Peel and chop the dried onions. Peel the ginger, cut the thread.
Step 4: Put the pot on the stove, heat the cooking oil, fry the onion + ginger.…
