Best vegetables for salad
We all know the health benefits of salad however it's very important to choose vegetables for salad. Including nutritious vegetables in your salad will make it a healthy diet. If possible, salads should be made entirely of raw vegetables and raw fruits. Do not mix too many foods in a meal, it may spoil the taste. There is no point making salads so complex, when simplicity is a requirement for building health.
Best Vegetables for salad:
Lettuce: Lettuce is the foundation for your salad. If you prefer iceberg lettuce, look for a dark green and weighty head, with no brown spots on the stem or outer leaves. Check the condition of red leaves in bagged lettuce because they tend to spoil first. It's nutritious and tasty too.
Raw broccoli: This adds crunch and powerful phytochemicals, nutrients found only in plants, to your salad. Look for heads with tight, even florets. Color should be an even dark green or bluish-green. Squeeze stalks gently to ensure firmness and check that leaves are intact. You can also try packaged broccoli.
Radish: It contains vitamin C, sodium and calcium and is very good for health. Patients with a weak liver or jaundice were prescribed a juice of this vegetable. Eating the leaves of the radish along with it, help to remove the pungent flavor of the radish.
Tomatoes: They are excellent source of vitamins A and C and a good source of potassium. hey are delicious with basil (tulsi), olive oil, salt, and pepper. Don't refrigerate them. Try to pick up tomatoes with no dark spots or wrinkles. Try different varieties like plum or Roma.
Shredded cabbage: This is rich in vitamin A, B; C E. Cabbage provides high levels of iron and sulphur, minerals that work in part as cleansing agents for the digestive system and contains chemicals that can prevent cancer. However do not eat red cabbage raw. Avoid cabbage if you suffer from goiter, or take MAOI antidepressants.
Onions: Onion adds the real taste and flavor to your salad. It has antibacterial properties and also acts a blood detoxifier. Onions are also natural and gentle blood thinners and they are also good for liver disorders. Look for smooth, evenly colored sweet yellow or red onions. avoid any with discoloration.
Herbs are a great new addition to salad ingredients. If you have an herb garden, pick whatever is green and leafy and toss it in your salad.
Bell Peppers: Green capsicum, red bell peppers are great sources of vitamin C and are good for all constitutions. The yellow peppers tend to have the mildest taste. Hold peppers in your palm and squeeze the sides; they should yield slightly, with a firm feel. Smooth-shaped peppers are easier to slice than irregular ones.
Salads are easy to make and they bring us a few steps closer to our recommended daily serving of fruit and vegetables. Salads provide the body with a lot of fiber which in turn means lower cholesterol and less constipation. When you eat these green wonders, you feel fuller, eat less and lose weight. So enjoy salad with these vegetables and be healthy.
(Sources: food.ivillage.com, lifemojo.com)
