Vegetables and Health

Author: Jiang Zexian
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Vegetables are one of the green foods. Green food, in fact, refers to "pollution-free, safe and high-quality, nutritious, and highly absorbable" food. However, there is a process from green food to entering the human body, which is selection → washing → cooking → consumption. Do you know how to choose vegetables? Choose those suitable for your body, those that pair well with other foods, those that supplement nutrition, those that can prevent and treat diseases, and those that regulate your appetite. In fact, how to choose and combine is a science. Do you know how to cook vegetables to make them more nutritious? Stir-fry? Boil? Mix? Steam? High heat with plenty of oil? Low heat and quick stir-fry? A little aged vinegar? A bit of pepper? Cooking is a big, and this book will tell you these knowledge. The common people eat vegetables every day and know that eating vegetables is beneficial. However, they know the "what" but not the "why." Take a look at this book, and we will know the "why." Vegetables contain proteins, lipids, sugars, vitamins, and minerals, and we should also know that vegetables contain hundreds and thousands of plant chemical substances. These natural chemical substances are compounds with many bioactivities that plants use for self-protection to avoid damage from bacteria, viruses, and fungi in nature. Although people currently do not fully understand the bioactivity of each plant compound, it is certain that they have a significant impact on human health (from small things like skin beauty or allergies to big things like human anti-aging, cancer prevention, or cancer occurrence). Reading this book will help you understand vegetables, and let the vegetables forgotten by thousands of households bring you a healthy life.