What is remarkable in such a seemingly ordinary vegetable - ordinary beet, where the useful properties lie? It turns out that there are a lot of them. It is a real storehouse of vitamins and trace elements. All its useful properties are contained in root crops. First, they are different sugars (represented by glucose, sucrose and fructose), and their content reaches about 25%. In the beet contains many important acids - folic, pantothenic, organic acids - oxalic, malic, lemon. High protein content is very useful for the body, and the high content of vitamins such as BB, P, PP, C, B, trace elements - magnesium, calcium, iodine, cobalt, iron and potassium - speaks for itself. Many of the elements contained in beets regulate metabolism and prevent anemia.
Useful properties of table beets are scientifically proven. In recent decades, studies have been conducted in which it was proved that the beetroot helps the body absorb proteins and increase the activity of liver cells due to the content of betanin and betaine. Also beet is an excellent preventive against constipation, improves urination, lowers blood pressure, has a slight anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect. The undoubted advantage of this vegetable is low caloric content - that is, beets can be consumed if you stick to a diet for weight loss.
As you can see, there are a lot of useful properties for beets. But, nevertheless, there are contraindications. Due to the fact that the substances contained in it slow down the body's absorption of calcium, it is not recommended for people suffering from osteoporosis. The high content of various acids imposes its limitations on the use of this vegetable for gastritis with high acidity, and for sugars - for diabetes mellitus. As noted, beet has a laxative effect, so it can not be used for diarrhea. It is also better to refrain from using it in diabetes mellitus.
But it would be a mistake to believe that the beneficial properties of beets are contained only in root crops. Beet juice also preserves the usefulness of the plant, providing a general strengthening effect on the body, improving metabolism, increasing hemoglobin in the blood and improving its composition, lowering blood pressure. Rinsing of the throat with beet juice will be useful in tonsillitis, tonsillitis and chronic tonsil diseases due to pronounced anti-inflammatory effect. Thus for rinsing the beet juice should be diluted with warm boiled water in the ratio 1: 1.
It is also useful to drink beetroot juice, but because of the specific taste, it is better to first dilute it with other juices, for example, carrot, apple or any other, add honey, jam. Beetroot juice is not as aggressive as, for example, cabbage, acts on the stomach, and also helps to remove bile from the body. Also good news is that regular use of beet juice helps to maintain smooth skin and a beautiful complexion for a long time.
Now a little about the importance of the beetroot, its useful properties. In folk medicine recipes for the treatment of beets of various diseases are known. It helps with constipation, and it is also believed that eating this vegetable in menopause relieves irritability and hot flashes and helps to transfer this period more easily. If the trigeminal nerve is chilled, the beetroot will also help - you just need to drip the beet juice into your ear and lay it with gauze, also soaked in beet juice. Even with such serious diseases as fibromioma, mastopathy and fibroma this vegetable will come to the rescue - you need to rub the raw beet together with the peel, squeeze and cake to apply for two days in a row to the chest or lower abdomen, leaving for the night. The third day is a break, then - again two days you put beets. Duration of treatment - 20 treatment nights. Then - a break in a month and a half, then the treatment is repeated.
From beet it is fashionable to prepare useful and tasty salads - it is enough simply to mix it with cheese and sour cream. And if you want something "more interesting" - you can make a salad of beets, cucumber and garlic with the addition of vinegar and sour cream, or a salad of beets with prunes. Of course, this is not the whole list of dishes from beets - everything here is determined only by your imagination!
Beetroot is a useful and inexpensive vegetable, so let it always be on your table! And many diseases will bypass you, because you are now aware of the importance of table beet, its useful properties!