Cruciferous vegetables are nutritious and healthy

In modern life, people pay more and more attention to the reasonable combination of healthy diet.

Professor Song Liqun introduced that there is a type of vegetables that is highly praised and praised by various healthy eating guides around the world.

Medicinal and edible, with a long history

Taking shepherd's purse, which enjoys the reputation of "licorice in vegetables" as an example, as early as 3,000 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a record in the "Book of Songs", "Whoever says that tea is bitter, it is as sweet as shepherd's purse

Professor Song explained that mustard greens are also called red vegetables, frost is not old, spicy, warm in nature, enter the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and are also regarded as blind medicine

As one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, radish has long been "planted" into our lives

Cabbage is a vegetable that was introduced to China from the Western Regions more than 1,000 years ago, and is regarded as a vegetable with high health care value in the Western world

Anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory, many benefits

Professor Song Liqun pointed out that cruciferous vegetables contain many valuable substances, such as dietary fiber, multivitamins, trace elements, various alkaloids, glucosinolates, flavonoids, etc.

As an "anti-cancer star", cruciferous vegetables are rich in isothiocyanate, indole-3-carbinol and carotenoids, which have gradually become a research hotspot at home and abroad

The occurrence of many chronic diseases is related to long-term high levels of chronic inflammation, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, etc.

Likewise, eating cruciferous vegetables on a regular basis is also beneficial for the cardiovascular system

　　In addition, the familiar mustard greens have a significant calcium supplementation effect.

　　Eat scientifically, avoid misunderstandings

　　Professor Song Liqun reminded that although cruciferous vegetables have many benefits, they are not suitable for everyone

　　And radish is easy to lower the qi and eliminate stagnation, which will offset the efficacy of some traditional Chinese medicines.

　　Although they understand the importance of vegetables to health, it does not mean that everyone has mastered the skills of eating vegetables

　　Of course, leafy greens are perishable and not shelf-stable

　　(Yi Xiaofeng, Dang Yuanyuan, Zhang Zhibiao)

Profile of Professor Song Liqun

　　Second-level professor, doctor of medicine, post-doctorate in pharmacy; former director of the Department of Nephrology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, now an academic leader of nephrology, doctoral tutor

　　Responsible editor: Zhang Jiazhen Review: Ouyang Meihua