When making my bowls at Genghis Grill I like to
keep it simple with the ingredients but always lots of good vegetables! The
most used veggies that I like would be spinach, cabbage, broccoli and peppers.
I would like to give some insight on the health benefits of each of these
veggies.
Spinach is a green and leafy vegetable that will be
able to provide you with the nutrients that you require. In fact, a single cup
full of spinach will give you adequate amounts of vitamin A and vitamin K. It
will also get you lots of folate and manganese in addition to magnesium.
Cabbage, rich in phyto-nutrients, this cool season
leafy vegetable belongs to the "Brassica" family of vegetables.
Cabbage is the storehouse of phyto-chemicals like thiocyanates,
indole-3-carbinol, lutein, zea-xanthin, sulforaphane, and isothiocyanates.
These compounds are powerful antioxidants and known to help protect against
breast, colon, and prostate cancers and help reduce LDL or "bad
cholesterol" levels in the blood.
Broccoli contains an unusual combination of three
phytonutrients, glucoraphanin, gluconasturtiian, and glucobrassicin. Together
these nutrients have a strong impact on our body’s detoxification system.
Broccoli is also high in fiber which helps to lower cholesterol and facilitates
digestion.
Peppers, many of peppers' phytochemicals have
antioxidant abilities. This means they can help neutralize free radicals in the
body, which damage cells. So they may help prevent or reduce symptoms of
certain diseases. Similar to hormones, some phytochemicals also act as
messengers in the body. Peppers come in a rainbow of colors, including green,
red, yellow, orange, and even purple, brown, and black. Whether mild or fiery,
peppers are nutrient-dense. They're one of the richest sources of vitamins A
and C. Just a cup a day can provide more than 100% of your daily needs.
Vegetable nutrition has widely drawn the attention
of fitness conscious as well as food scientists alike for their proven health
benefits. Majority of day to day used vegetables are very low in calories.
Celery is just 16 calories per 100 g. Scientific studies have shown that
low-calorie but nutrient-rich foods help the human body stay fit and disease
free.
Furthermore, the human body spends a considerable
amount of energy for the metabolism of foods, which is known as BMR or Basal
metabolism rate. When you add lots of vegetable nutrition in the diet, in fact,
you set to lose more weight than you would gain! This is the concept behind the
"negative calorie foods."
Get fit and healthy with more veggies and fruits!
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