Broken nails and hair, dull complexion, insomnia, non-healing skin damage - that's what spring usually meets us, in addition to the bright sun. In such cases, someone uses cosmetics, someone buys a package of tablets with vitamins, someone waits until the rich with fresh fruits and berries begin summer. However, the fight against beriberi can begin in the early spring with the help of radish.
Radish - a vegetable that can be purchased already in early spring. Despite its pungent taste, it is very popular in the preparation of salads and cold summer soups. In addition, this rich in vitamins and minerals product - a great escape from spring vitamin deficiency. Of course, radish has a number of useful properties, and not very much, but to appreciate it and decide if there is room for it on your table, it's worth taking a good look at everything in order.
Vitamin content
First, like any vegetable, radish is a source of fiber, which has a beneficial effect on the digestion of food, helps in the purification of the body. Vegetable fibers not only resist a set of excess weight, but also contribute to the elimination of toxins. Secondly, the content of vitamins A, C and group B is high in radish:
- Vitamin A promotes growth and regeneration of body cells, positively affects the immune system
Vitamin C has a good effect on metabolism and rapidly removes toxins
B vitamins help to cleanse the vessels of cholesterol, help the nervous system work, improve the production of enzymes for digesting food, regulate the work of the heart and muscles
Mineral content
Sodium, calcium, phosphorus and fluorine are those minerals that contain radish:
- Calcium positively affects the human bone tissue, as well as nails and hair
- fluorine produces a similar effect on the body, but in addition to this contributes to the assimilation of iron
- sodium is a very important element that not only maintains the water-salt balance in the body, but also helps the substances in the blood to remain dissolved
- phosphorus affects the strength of bones and teeth, takes part in energy distribution
And this is not the entire list of minerals that radish is so rich in. It would seem that they are not so much contained in it by mass - all within one milligram per hundred grams of the product. However, it is these milligrams that sometimes do not reach the body for normal functioning.
Benefits of root vegetables
Just one cup of salad with a radish a day will save you from vitamin deficiency. If you consume such vegetable dishes throughout the whole week, you can eliminate the lack of vitamins and minerals in the shortest possible time, in order to please everyone with healthy skin and hair by the summer. The combined use of radish with onions, carrots, cucumbers covers a significant part of the daily norm of vitamins; The rest you can compensate by other meals. It would seem that now the 21st century, and why eat salads, when you can buy biologically active supplements and just take a couple of tablets a day? But do not forget, the body must receive vitamins naturally. In addition, healthy food is now in vogue. And the radish itself is not only useful, but also delicious, juicy and crunchy! Combine pleasant business with useful.
Cosmetic application
In addition to eating radish in food, it can be used to create home cosmetic products due to high nutritional value. For example, you can make home oil for feet based on olive oil, grated radish and honey, which are combined in equal proportions. This mixture is insisted in a darkened cool place for two days, after which it is divided into a liquid and a solid part, and the first is used to soften the skin of the feet.
Contraindications to use
On a number of merits, the radish has flaws, and even what! The sharpness of the root crop is attached to the derivative product of mustard oil, it is the limit on the consumption of the vegetable. So, for example, it is not recommended to eat radish in large numbers to people with a weak cardiovascular system. Also contraindications are gastritis with high acidity, stomach and intestinal ulcers. In addition, the essential oils that enter, even in the minimum proportion, in the radish composition, can cause allergic reactions, so it is necessary to give caution to root vegetables to children and allergic people. It is necessary to know that many vitamins are fat-soluble, that is, a drop of vegetable oil or mayonnaise in any salad, including radish, kills most of the vitamins. This means that the best dressing for this vegetable is its own juice, which is abundantly produced if you grate the root on the grater. Be healthy!