What does it mean to eat vegetables in the New Year?

1. Cabbage means "treasure", which means to gather wealth, fortune, and treasure.

2, cabbage flowers: lucky money into treasure.

3, eggplant: eggplant looks like a high crown, often with the meaning of official prosperity and high officials.

4, loofah-missing and caring.

5, pumpkin: bumper harvest, pumpkin vines and many seeds, meaning that children and grandchildren are full, long life, wealth and glory, in addition, because pumpkins grow on the ground, melon meat is simple and sweet, and there is a happy life, lasting forever.

Vegetables can provide a variety of vitamins and minerals necessary for human body. According to the statistics of FAO 1990, 90% of vitamin C and 60% of vitamin A necessary for human body come from vegetables.

In addition, there are many phytochemicals in vegetables, which are recognized as effective components beneficial to health, such as carotenoids, dipropylene compounds, methyl sulfur compounds and so on. Nutrients in fruits and vegetables can effectively prevent chronic and degenerative diseases, and many substances are being discovered.

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Precautions:

1, cabbage is cold, people with qi deficiency and stomach cold should avoid eating more, and avoid eating cold food. If the wind-cold invades the lungs and the lungs are cold and cough, it is best not to eat it.

2. Cabbage and sauerkraut cooked overnight are not edible. Because both of them will produce nitrite, which has carcinogenic effect.

3. The blanching time of Chinese cabbage in boiling water should not be too long, preferably 20-30 seconds, otherwise it will not taste good if it is too soft and rotten. Don't press the cabbage to make stuffing, so as not to lose a lot of nutrients.

4. Don't eat cabbage without washing it. Many users feel that peeling off layers of Chinese cabbage hearts is very clean and does not need to be washed. In fact, it takes 2-3 months for Chinese cabbage to grow to the core, during which it needs to be fertilized and treated many times. In addition, air pollution leads to the long-term existence of bacteria. Therefore, cabbage heart must be cleaned before eating.

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