Boiled beets: what is useful?

We need garden crops not only for preparing delicious dishes, but many of them also contain useful minerals, trace elements, amino acids, vitamins, which have a beneficial and therapeutic effect on the human body. The leader among vegetables with valuable properties is beet... It has been appreciated by people since ancient times. Its unique qualities are not compromised even by exposure to high temperatures during cooking.

Beets are known and loved in every family. It is good in salads, borscht, and simply sliced. And they use it not only to give a beautiful shade to borscht, taste to dishes, but also to strengthen health, immunity, and treat diseases.

Content:

• The composition of boiled beets, useful properties
• To whom the product is contraindicated, its harm
• Beetroot cooking rules
• Tips for choosing a vegetable and its storage

The composition of boiled beets, useful properties

Beets in garden beds are barrels with useful contents:

• Among the vitamins in beets, group B takes the lead, its compounds do an excellent job with metabolic processes in the human body. Thiamin, or vitamin B1, has a positive effect on the work of the nervous system, normalizes the tone of the organs of the digestive tract, heart muscle. Pantothenic acid - vitamin B5 - is necessary for the breakdown of fats, the formation of adrenal hormones. The role of folic acid - B9 - is unique. Without it, there will be disturbances in the growth and division of cells, the transfer of genetic information, which is important for the development of the human embryo.
• Almost the entire table of chemical elements gathered in a red vegetable. There was a place for iron, copper, cobalt, iodine, sulfur, phosphorus, potassium, zinc. To replenish the pantry of the human body, beets play the role of the main supplier.
• The amino acids in the vegetable are also enough to increase a person's performance, strengthen his muscles, and energize. These substances normalize the immune system, help the absorption of proteins, and burn fat. They play the role of an additional source of energy and youth.
• And in order for the human intestine to function properly and be cleansed of toxins, toxins, beet fiber is needed. She will help you lose weight and save you from cancer.
• Such a composition of boiled beets gives it the first place in the treatment of human diseases. The vegetable successfully cures chronic constipation, reorganizing the intestines, destroying pathogenic microbes.
• For liver diseases, obesity, experts recommend using boiled beets in the diet. It is nutritious but low in calories.
• For people with low hemoglobin levels, the vegetable is useful, as it will replenish the body with iron.
• Boiled beets should be consumed more often to avoid diffuse goiter.
• For men, the vegetable is useful in case of a decrease in potency, and for pregnant women it is necessary for the formation of a healthy nervous system in the fetus.
• A boiled product is used in the treatment of depression, hypertension, atherosclerosis.

Beetroot is invaluable for strengthening human health.

To whom the product is contraindicated, its harm

As a herbal medicine, the vegetable has contraindications for use:

1. Since beets contain acids - oxalic, malic, it is necessary to limit its use in the diet for acute forms of gastritis, gastric ulcer.
2. The choleretic and diuretic properties of the plant can negatively affect the stones in the ducts of the urinary system. The movement of deposits will lead to acute attacks of pancreatitis, cholecystitis.
3. A significant amount of sugar does not allow diabetic patients to feast on cooked food.
4. You can not eat beets for people with low blood pressure, low calcium in the blood. And its laxative effect can aggravate the condition of patients with diarrhea.
5. Caution must be observed when consuming large quantities of beets, because excessiveness can cause negative reactions in the body.

Beetroot cooking rules

Different root vegetable sizes lead to different amounts of time for the product to be fully cooked. And this difference will be one or two hours. Beets take a long time to cook if they are placed in cold water. Therefore, to speed up the process, you can put the root vegetable in a saucepan with boiling, pre-salted water. This cooking method will preserve all the beneficial substances of the plant.

Many chefs know that you don't have to wait for the beets to soften. It is necessary, after keeping it in boiling water for thirty minutes, to transfer it to very cold. A sharp change in temperature will lead to softness of the root crop.

The preservation of nutrients in the plant is the main task when cooking beets.

A vegetable cooks quickly when it is poured with plenty of water in a large container and boiled with the lid open. A spoonful of vegetable oil will also help the speed of cooking. In a pressure cooker, the root vegetable cut into strips will be cooked in twenty minutes. Before putting a vegetable in a saucepan, it must be thoroughly washed under running water, removing pieces of dried earth. It is not necessary to peel the product from the peel, leave the tail intact so that the juice does not flow out of it.

To preserve the color, add a little salt, lemon juice or vinegar to the broth at the end of cooking. Peel the root vegetable before use. It is impossible to keep it in a purified form for a long time, since vitamins begin to break down under the influence of air. It is not difficult to follow the rules for preparing the product.

Tips for choosing a vegetable and storing it

There are many varieties beets... Sugar beets are grown for processing and sugar production in factories. The fodder type of root crops has a brown color, it is necessary and useful for livestock. Red beets are suitable for preparing vegetable dishes. But it is better to choose small roots of a new crop for cooking. The Bordeaux variety is popular. He is both handsome in appearance and not large in size. It has a thin skin that can be easily removed. The fruits of the species have a slightly flattened shape.

To enjoy a vegetable during the winter, it must be properly stored.

The root crop is very moody about the conditions storage... Before lowering the beets into the cellar, they are dried in a ventilated room for several days. It is not necessary to wash the vegetable before storage, but simply to clean it of dry soil by cutting off the tops, leaving a small tail. The main storage conditions include the absence of light, low temperatures up to plus two degrees, high humidity in the basement or cellar. It is necessary to create air circulation in the room, and for this the storage place should be on a shelf located fifteen centimeters above the floor.

The root crop is well preserved in sand or sawdust. In such an environment, the vegetable can be perceived without getting sick, retaining all the beneficial properties. Wintering of beets in plastic bags is allowed. It will not dry out in them, but for the flow of air the container must be left open on top. Loves beets stored on top of the layer potatoes, which shares moisture with it.Preserving the fruits during the winter will allow you to replenish your body with vitamins, microelements, so necessary in this difficult period.

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