Healthy eating salsify (Properties and Benefits of a healthy diet)
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Are you familiar with the following sentence? A healthy diet! Undoubtedly heard many times heard this sentence, What is a healthy diet?
A healthy diet is to eat different foods every day that contribute to your body nutrients, something that the body needs to be well, lucid, and energetic. Healthy foods are those that provide your body with proteins, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins and minerals.
A correct nutrition, added to a physical activity, contributes to maintain a healthy body and without overweight, in a certain way we are what we eat, the foods have the ability to influence your immune system and can affect your mood and your energy, something vital to keep the mind fresh and healthy.
I invite you to know all the properties and benefits of salsify
The salsify plant is well known in much of the world by its scientific name "Tragopogon porrifolius" belongs to the families of the "asteráceas". Depending on where you are, you may have heard it named as "salsify, goatee beard, goat's beard, goat's beard, barbaja, barbel, grass on the side, vegetable oyster, oyster plant, Villaviciosa rosette, white salsify, white salsify, cow's tit, cow's tits, cow's nipple, tetillón, verbaja "
This plant is cultivated for its edible roots, a plant that in good conditions can to develop up to one meter in height, considered an annual herb, its edible roots have the appearance of a white carrot covered with fine roots that look like a plumage, can grow to ten centimeters, depending on its species its color varies from black, violet, purple, yellow or white.
The origin of this vegetable is not very precise, its nativity is attributed to "western and southern Mediterranean Europe, the Balearics, Corsica, Sardinia, Africa, Pakistan" and from there it was introduced in a large part of the world "North America, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina , chile ", This vegetable grows spontaneously and wildly, there are farmers who practice planting. It requires very little care, just being exposed to the sun and nourished soils.
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A very versatile vegetable in the kitchen, appreciated by the international chef, for its great ability to prepare dishes, can be consumed, raw in salads, cooked, stewed, grilled, oven, fried, soup, as a main dish or as garnish or dessert, has a slight leek flavor. Others attribute certain flavor or aromas to oysters, which is why in some parts of the world they call them "oyster plants or vegetable oysters".
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"SALSIFÍ WITH CHAMPIÑONES AND PURÉ DE BONIATO"
Source: http://www.gastronomia.es/recetas/salsifi-con-champinones-y-pure-de-boniato/
"Roasted duck with salsify"
Source: http://elgourmet.com/receta/magret-de-canard-rtie-avec-salsifi-pato-asado-con-salsifi
"Ragout of tangerines with salsify and mashed potatoes"
"Salsify with hazelnuts and purple shiso"
Source: https://www.makro.es/aula-makro/calendario-verde-2017/octubre-salsifi
Salsify chips with watermelon jam and tekka
Source: http://macroseny.com/receta/chips-de-salsifi-con-confitura-de-sandia-y-tekka/
The consumption of this vegetable is very beneficial for our health, you should know that by eating salsify, you are incorporating many benefits, vitamins and minerals for your body
- "Energy"
- "Carbohydrates"
- "Water"
- "Protein"
- "VITAMINS A, B-6, B9, B-12, C"
- "Calcium"
- "Potassium"
- "Match"
By periodically consuming salsify, you are incorporating many very healthy benefits for your body, in addition to providing important vitamins and minerals to your body, you are preventing many diseases, you should know that this vegetable has curative and preventive powers, you should consider adding this vegetable to your daily intake
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- This vegetable is considered a natural laxative, its component of "dietary fiber" actively promotes digestion by promoting bowel movements healthy.
- If you suffer from "blood pressure" you should consider adding salsify to your daily intake, its "potassium" component helps to decrease "blood pressure"
- The component of "copper and iron" that contains this vegetable helps to produce more "red blood cells" and "oxygen" to the main organs, it is also very good for "blood circulation".
Now that you know the benefits of the consumption of "salsify" that you think, or how many times you will consume this wonderful product
- Once a month
- Once a week
- Once a day
If you want to know more about the medical and scientific specifications and the benefits that the consumption of this plant brings, you just have to enter the links that I leave below.
Very Important: This publication is a compilation of information from different pages, in order to inform the properties of different fruits, vegetables or other foods. Do not make any determination based on this report, without first consulting with a nutrition or health professional.
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