Tag: Cabbage

Purple cabbage is a colorful leafy vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked. It is also often called as red cabbage. Purple cabbage has a relatively high ratio of nutrients and vitamins to calories and fat and it is a great choice for people who follow a strict diet to curtail the calories. It is a good source of many nutrients like vitamins, fiber, potassium.

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Baking has several uses including keeping the soil at the ideal pH level. It also helps to kill weeds like crabgrass and those weeds that sprout up between the cracks in concrete. It can help reduce odor in compost pits, kill cabbage worms, slugs, and snails, and make the soil a better environment for flowering plants that require alkaline soil. You can use it as a makeshift indicator for checking pH levels to help keep your soil at the ideal level.

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The high vit C content of cabbage fights free radicals in the body, lowering your risk of cancer, degenerative nerve diseases, heart disease, or stroke. Its potent antioxidants may help restore kidney function, cure peptic ulcers, and regulate blood glucose levels. Cabbage juice can also serve as a viable probiotic drink for those who are lactose intolerant!

Cabbage can be as much a friend as a foe! It contains significant quantities of raffinose (an indigestible sugar) that may end up blocking your intestines causing flatulence or bringing on a bout of diarrhea. Nursing mothers should avoid consuming it as it might make their baby colicky. Excessive consumption coupled with iodine deficiency might result in hypothyroidism.

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Cabbage is a smart carb, it relieves constipation. Cabbage juice prevents cancer, strengthens the immune system, is a digestive cleanser and is a skin healer. It is a brain food, detoxifier, lowers blood pressure, fights anemia, cures headaches, regulates blood sugar, anti-inflammatory, strengthens bones, relieves muscle aches and contains Vitamin E.