The founder of the doctrine of vitamins was not accidentally exactly the pediatrician, MD Nikolai Ivanovich Lunin. He experimentally proved that in food other than proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and water, other substances, useful vitamins for the human body, necessary for all living things should be contained. Later they were studied by K. Funk and were called vitamins. The children's organism is most sensitive to the shortage of any necessary substances, because it needs to replenish their stock and build new cells and tissues from them. How to prevent spring weakening of the body?
What will protect us?
First of all, a useful vitamin for the human body is vitamin C, ascorbic acid, a unique substance. Some vitamins can be partially synthesized in the intestine, others - are contained in such off-season products as meat, liver and kidneys, eggs, milk, fish, cereals ... But the human body, even in acute need, can not create vitamin C. It is contained only in plant products, so in the cold season, its quantity in food sharply decreases. In addition, ascorbic acid is very unstable, it disintegrates from cooking, from heat, light, water, oxygen, almost from a slanted look. Just in case, let's look at the sources of vitamin C with sympathy.
Perhaps, this is the very first of the useful vitamins for the human body, which children learn about when we read them books about round-the-world travel, about Magellan and Columbus. Whole expeditions in those distant times perished from scurvy, that is, from a lack of vitamin C. Later, seafarers rescued sauerkraut , the barrels with which they took with them on a voyage.
Older children from Jack London's "God's Mistake" will learn how a whole northern town of gold diggers saved from this disease ... potatoes .There is probably an exaggeration in the story, but remember this product - POTATO .It's really a lot of vitamin C. It is a pity that by the end of winter only half of these stocks remain, but this amount should be cherished in March, when less than 7% of the vitamin is lost during boiling of potatoes, but for 3 hours of storing potato soup, the loss of ascorbic tea will amount to as much as 40% inventive dish.
Potatoes and sauerkraut preserve some amount of useful vitamins for the human body throughout the whole winter. But ... too little, especially for a growing body. And if we take into account that these vegetables are used in children's food only after cooking, then they do not have to be rooted hopes at all.
Superfoods
This is the way to name foods that contain a lot of vitamin C and can keep it for a long time.
Rosehip
In the red glossy peel of its fruits, a myriad of useful vitamins for the human body, and in a special state in which it most actively "works" in the body.In the dogrose, this vitamin is found in a beneficial neighborhood with routine and hesperidin, which increase the absorption of vitamin C and the effectiveness The pharmacy vitamin complex contains ascorbic acid along with bioflavonoids, hesperidin and routine (sometimes referred to as "citrus salts"). Sometimes vitamin C is produced with the addition of wild cherry berries. But in the general sale there is basically a preparation of "pure" vitamin C, which is obtained from dextrose of cereals, however, pure vitamin is assimilated worse, and in this respect, natural products have an indisputable advantage.
Rosehip is the richest source of this vitamin complex. There is a lot of dog rose and carotene - provitamin A. What should I cook?
Infusion
Option 1: Wash the hips, put on a strainer, beat with boiling water and crush with a rolling pin, pour into a porcelain teapot, pour boiling water (a glass on 1 table., A spoonful of fruit). Kettle wrap and leave for 1-2 hours. Finished infusion strain through gauze, warm up to the desired state and serve instead of tea. Infusion of dog rose can also be cooked in a thermos bottle.
Option 2: Prepared fruit and healthy vitamins for the human body, for example, rose hips put in enamelware and pour boiling water. Close the lid tightly and simmer for 10 minutes at low boiling point. Remove from heat, persist for 6-8 hours, strain.
Rosehip soup with rice and berries
Take:
1L of dog rose
100 g of frozen cherries or strawberries
lemon peel
1 table. a spoonful of starch
4 table. spoons of boiled rice
5 table. spoons of jam
Preparation
In a hot briar infusion, put the berries, bring to a boil, pour in the starch dissolved in cold water, with stirring again bring to a boil, put the jam, lemon zest and refrigerate. Before serving, put 1 table. spoon of boiled rice.
Sweet Bulgarian pepper
Its fruits are also rich in useful vitamins for the human body and beta-carotene. Sweet pepper in the content of vitamin C, like the rose hip, surpasses the well-known standard - black currant. 100 g of these berries accumulate 200 mg of vitamin C, and 100 g of red sweet pepper - as much as 250 mg (!). Remember that the daily requirement of the baby's body in this vitamin is 60-100 mg. As the pepper matures, the concentration of vitamins in its pods increases. The reddened barrel of a not fully mature pod contains more vitamins than its greenish part. Exceptionally rich in vitamins pepper varieties, ripening closer to the autumn.
In winter, sweet peppers are grown in greenhouses. Even in greenhouse pepper is quite enough vitamin C. Useful vitamins for the human body remain and when canning. Pepper paste - the champion in vitamins among canned vegetables. Even better preserved vitamins in frozen sweet pepper. What to cook? For kids, freshly squeezed juice is best.
This fruit is surprisingly juicy, and half of the pod with the help of an electric juicer can get 50-60 ml of sweet aromatic juice. For older children who already know how to chew food, various salads with finely chopped sweet pepper and salads from one pepper are useful, with simple and useful dressings.
Salad of sweet pepper and chicken
Take:
100 g boiled chicken breast
1 chopped red pepper
2 cherry tomatoes
sour refueling
pinch of dried basil
Preparation
Combine the ingredients by watering the dressing. To make it in sour cream, stir a clove of garlic, rubbed with salt.
Brussels sprouts
This is a real queen among all kinds of cabbage. In 100 grams of Brussels sprouts, 120 mg (!) Of vitamin C are contained. In frozen form, it retains up to 80% of vitamins in its small kitties, so only 40 g of frozen Brussels sprouts are enough to satisfy the daily requirement of preschool baby in this vitamin 50%. Beta-carotene in Brussels sprouts in 15 (!) Times more than in white-colored or colored, and 3 times more than in red or kohlrabi. The value of Brussels sprouts for the baby's nutrition is so great that even in a small amount added to vegetable soup, borsch, cabbage soup or pickle, it will bring undoubted benefits.
The smell of this cabbage, especially after heat treatment, is very peculiar. Both the smell and taste are due to a significant number of chemical compounds called indoles. They are valuable in that they neutralize a number of carcinogens, acting in conjunction with quercetins and with vitamins C and E. But this specific taste is not liked by all children, so they try to somehow "fix" it, veil it with herbs and other spices. coots of Brussels sprouts in thin slices of smoked bacon and lightly fry.Borussel cabbage is rich and B vitamins, especially B2.
Cabbage Brussels in sauce
Take:
2/3 plates of frozen cabbage cabbage
3 table. tablespoons butter
2 table. spoons of flour
1 glass of cream
salt
Preparation
Kochanchiki brussels sprouts, without thawing, immerse in boiling salted water and cook for 6-7 minutes. Discard, and in the broth, stir the flour, boil for 5 minutes, add butter, cream, salt and heat. Put the cabbage into this sauce, warm it for 8 minutes and serve with the sauce. You can sprinkle very finely chopped dill, crushed cumin.
Cabbage Brussels fried
Take:
2/3 plates of frozen cabbage
2 table. tablespoons butter
salt
Sauce:
100 g of dill greens
50 g coriander
1 table. spoon of lemon juice
2-3 ml of saline solution
sour cream, mixed with thick cream (to taste)
Preparation
Frozen kochanchiki cabbage boil. Then lightly fry with butter and pour sauce. Finely chopped greens of dill and cilantro beat in a blend-re with sour cream and cream. Add lemon juice and saline solution, mix thoroughly, trying not to be too sour or, conversely, fresh. This vitamin sauce is useful to fill almost all children's dishes: salads, first and second dishes.
How valuable is vitamin C
Protects the body, especially children, from many viral and bacterial infections, strengthens the immune system.
Promotes the healing of wounds, burns and bleeding gums. Accelerates the healing of tissues in the postoperative period.
Prevents the formation of nitrosamines in the body, toxic substances that have carcinogenic properties. To a certain extent reduces the harm of nitrates and nitrites.
Useful vitamins for the human body have an effective preventive effect, and also help in the treatment of colds.
Improves the absorption of inorganic iron. Reduces the effect on the body of various kinds of allergens. Strengthens the adhesion of cellular proteins, thereby increasing life expectancy.