During the crisis, all people want to spend less money on food, and get more benefits. Impossible? Why is that? After all, there is a cheap and delicious zucchini , useful properties of which have been known for a long time.
Useful properties of courgettes
Most importantly, courgettes regulate the water-salt balance, removing excess fluid from the body. In addition, he fights against cholesterol. These properties of courgettes are used in many diets. Including, this vegetable actively struggles with excess weight.
If you want to eat zucchini for weight loss, you need to take those of them that have a green skin, they are the most useful, and there is directly with the skin, after thoroughly washing it and cooking the vegetable. Better to extinguish zucchini, the properties and benefits of which then will not change much compared to raw.
In zucchini contains a lot of vitamins and trace elements, for example, potassium. Zucchini is simply saturated with potassium, so they are not even recommended in large numbers to people who already take potassium supplements: an excess of this element in the body is undesirable. This vegetable has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system, increases the level of iron in the blood, also increases immunity and contains antioxidants. Due to this, it prevents the aging of the body. And the minimum content of fiber allows you to recommend it even after operations related to the intestine. Dishes from zucchini are also useful in kidney diseases, diabetes, hepatitis and hypertension, and also as an emergency measure for poisoning.
If you do not stew, and fry zucchini, their useful and harmful properties are balanced: strongly, to blackness, fried zucchini are more harmful to the kidneys and gastrointestinal tract. Raw, too, not all useful. The ideal option is to stew zucchini. In this form they are very useful, for those who want to get rid of a few extra pounds. Zucchini courgettes, useful properties of which are known to everyone, in this case are most preferable.
To remove the body from the slag, it is enough to eat 200 grams of zucchini per week. The same amount will also help with joint diseases: it will rid the body of excess salts.
To whiten the skin, you can make a mask: a teaspoon of zucchini juice mixed with egg yolk. Keep this mask for 15 minutes, and then rinse with warm water or remove with a wet cotton pad.
How to cook zucchini with maximum benefit?
Prepare dishes from courgettes better in the oven, and not for long: 10 minutes is enough. Then all the useful properties of courgettes for humans will be preserved. You can recommend, for example, all known dishes, such as squash or zucchini, stuffed with minced meat. If these options are already fed up, you can stuff "boats" from courgettes with cheese or cheese, and both must be mixed with the pulp carved from a zucchini.
Zucchini is an easy product, so it can be eaten with weight loss. In the season, the amount of zucchini consumed in food may well be equal to one and a half kilograms.
A great option - ragout of seasonal vegetables. To increase the usefulness of zucchini, it is necessary to add a string bean and a large bunch of greens, but potatoes and carrots can not be added. Zucchini and so sweet to the taste.
And still it is possible to weld favorite with many jam from zucchini. To do this, 1 kilo of zucchini (and preferably zucchini) is washed, peeled, cut into small cubes, covered in syrup from a kilogram of sugar and 100 milliliters of water along with lemon leaking through a meat grinder and cook for 45 minutes over low heat.
Zucchini - it's tasty and useful, and also quite sparingly. Dishes prepared from zucchini like many.