Why is white cabbage useful?

White cabbage is one of the few vegetables that have a balanced composition. With proper preparation and storage, its beneficial properties decrease slightly, and, therefore, all year round you can have a whole vitamin and mineral complex in your refrigerator for ridiculous money.

Benefits of cabbage for the body

What is not useful is white cabbage, here and potassium salts, phytoncides, fiber , vegetable fat, sugar, fluoride and much more. This vegetable is especially rich in the presence of ascorbic acid, and, consequently, is an immaculate immunostimulant. And this is not all the useful properties of cabbage. Thanks to the folic acid contained in the leaves, cabbage is an excellent stimulator of metabolic processes in the body. Salts of sodium and potassium contribute to the removal of excess fluid. And tartronic acid is an excellent "fighter" with manifestations of vascular sclerotization. Among vitamins in white cabbage vitamins C, PP, U, and also group B.

Energy value of white cabbage

Despite such a rich composition, in 100 g of product only 27 kcal, with proteins in cabbage cabbage 1.8 g, fat - 0.1 g, carbohydrates 4.7 g.

Diets based on white cabbage

On the basis of white cabbage, many diets have been created, but one of the highly effective is the 10-day classic. Thanks to it, you can lose from 6 to 10 kg of unwanted weight. The diet for a cabbage diet:

1. Breakfast : green tea, coffee without sugar or still water.
2. Lunch : Salad from fresh cabbage with the addition of carrots and vegetable oil (ideally use olive). 200 g of boiled chicken meat, beef or nonfat fish.
3. Dinner : cabbage salad with half a chicken egg, can be replaced by one. quail, one fruit (you can not use a banana ).

4. 2 hours before bedtime

   - drink a glass of 1% kefir.

In order to slightly diversify the menu, cabbage salads can be replaced with soup from cabbage and vegetables. For the entire diet time of 3 days you can replace the fresh product with fermented. The main feature of the diet is the complete exclusion of sweet and salty, flour and confectionery, as well as alcohol. If there is a strong feeling of hunger, then you can eat white cabbage leaves in any quantities. The main thing - fresh and without the addition of oil or salt.

Side effects of the diet are sometimes a decrease in working capacity, apathy and a decrease in the reaction rate. After the completion of the diet, you can repeat it only after 2 months.