Now people began to trust their health more "gifts of nature", rather than chemical compounds of artificial vitamin complexes. Therefore, the diet, most full of vegetables and fruits, has become for many a daily habit.
If everyone knows about the benefits of cucumbers, cabbage and beet for a long time, then very few people know what vitamins are contained in zucchini and that this simple vegetable is a real find for those who want to lose weight or are suffering from excess weight . And all because zucchini contains a lot of water, which is easily eliminated from the body.
What vitamins are contained in zucchini?
There are not so many, but it is enough to recognize it useful not only for dietary, but also for baby food.
So, in vegetable marrows there are the following vitamins, which allow beneficial influence on the human body:
- B1, improves the activity of the nervous system and normalizes the water-salt balance;
- B2, it is rightly called the "vitamin of beauty", it beneficially affects not only the skin condition, improving its metabolic processes, restoring faded cells, but also the structure of the hair and nails;
- B3, cleaves proteins, fats and carbohydrates, improves digestion, helps to normalize the cholesterol in the blood;
- B6, contributes to the strengthening of the nervous system of the body, is a means of preventing cardiovascular diseases;
- vitamin C, strengthens immunity, ensures the preservation of cells of the nervous system, participates in the synthesis of collagen;
- vitamin E, strengthens the body's vascular system, preventing the formation of blood clots.
In addition to the fact that zucchini contain a whole range of vitamins, they also contain minerals:
- iron (0.4 mg / 100 g), increases the physical activity of a person, the mineral is able to maintain a normal level of hemoglobin in the blood;
- Potassium (240 mg / 100 g), carries the transfer of nerve impulses of the body, which contribute to the normal reduction of the muscular system.
Few people know that the flesh of this vegetable can and should be eaten raw, in this case in the zucchini all vitamins are preserved in an unchanged form, and during the heat treatment some of them partially lose their properties.
Now, when it became known what vitamins and minerals contain zucchini, this vegetable can rightly win its worthy place in the daily diet, among other useful for the organism of garden plants.