Sour cabbage: calorie, benefits and contraindications

Sauerkraut is one of those dishes that are known for more than one millennium (the first mention of it dates back to the third century BC), but still do not lose relevance. This is understandable, since the fermentation of cabbage in Russia has acquired the status of a peculiar folk custom. It has long been to this day in the season when harvesting is over, the housewives are engaged in shredding and pickling cabbage for future use. Only the exceptional usefulness of this vegetable allows him not to lose popularity until the present. The continuing glory of sauerkraut is also due to the high content of fiber, phytoncides, enzymes and vitamins along with the cheapness of this product. It is about sauerkraut in the people say, as a product that is not ashamed to serve, but eaten, so it's not a pity.

Unpretentiousness, along with universal accessibility and useful properties, which is rich in cabbage sauerkrays, which caloric content is very small, and make it an indispensable dish in almost every family. In addition, it does not lose its useful properties, but on the contrary acquires in the process of natural ripening additional. Scientists are increasingly asserting that for the prevention of cancer, supersaturation of the body with acidic products is necessary and it is sauerkraut, which possesses anti-carcinogenic properties - one of the vegetables that are ideally suited for these purposes.

Cabbage is sour, calorie content, which is only 25 kcal per 100 grams of product, is great for people who want to lose excess weight. In addition, it will also saturate the body with useful substances, and the liver will be cleaned by a gentle method. This is a real storehouse of vitamins B, C, provitamin A, and the substance choline perfectly normalizes metabolic fat processes in the body.

However, not only the calorie content of salted cabbage makes it a unique product, the presence of methylmethanine (vitamin U), which prevents the occurrence of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, possesses the strongest antiulcer effect, makes it particularly valuable. There is even a medical preparation vitamin U, which helps in curing peptic ulcer.

To increase the body's resistance, improve digestive processes, twice a week to eat 100 grams of sauerkraut. In winter, poor in vitamins, sauerkraut comes to the rescue. Caloric content and composition allow it to be eaten by everyone who adheres to a church fast or dietary diet.

In sauerkraut in excess there is selenium, which has anti-carcinogenic, general strengthening and immune-prophylactic effect. Selenium is of particular value for a weakened organism. But with all the indisputably valuable properties of sauerkraut, caloric content, which is very low, has contraindications to eating for the following ailments:

• Exacerbation of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum;
• Acute enterocolitis ;
• Propensity to spasms of bile ducts and intestines;
• Increased intestinal peristalsis.

When irritating the intestinal mucosa as a result of eating sauerkraut, strong pain and spasms may occur.

Cabbage is sour, the caloric content of which is minimal, except for other positive properties, serves as an excellent cleanser for the intestines, suppresses putrefactive processes, relieves constipation - it is enough to drink one glass of brine to eliminate this trouble naturally. And, finally, sauerkraut is an unsurpassed snack for 100 grams of vodka, and its brine relieves hangover syndrome. Maybe this is the reason to start writing this article? ..