Is cabbage always clean? Some growing regions have concentrated large amounts of pesticide residue

Napa cabbage is the most common vegetable we have, and many people, like this editor, love to eat it. Cabbage is tasty and refreshing, stimulates the appetite and strengthens the spleen, and is rich in nutrition, loaded with dietary fiber, and also contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. Eating it regularly can help with digestive health and strengthen immunity.

There are some finer points to eating cabbage that many people do not care about and do not know, feeling that eating it this way is just fine. In fact, this way of thinking is completely wrong. Illness enters through the mouth, and many diseases are caused by what we eat, and since we have to eat every day, how can we be so careless?

The heart of the cabbage is thought to be clean and not need washing

Here, many people have a misconception, which is thinking that the heart of the cabbage is very clean, believing that since it is on the inside, it is not exposed to outside contamination, so they do not wash it much, or even not at all. This way of thinking is extremely wrong, it is self-righteous. In fact, from growth to forming a head, cabbage needs 2~3 months, during which it needs repeated fertilizing and pest control to ensure smooth growth, and because of air pollution, pesticides and bacteria exist within it, "stored" away, so to speak concentrating a large amount of pesticides and toxins. Therefore, the heart of the cabbage needs to be carefully washed; although it does not look dirty, there are many residues in it.

What else needs attention when eating cabbage?

Cabbage should not be cooked for too long

When cooking cabbage, especially for hot pot, cabbage should not be cooked for too long; the best time is 30 seconds to 1 minute, otherwise it becomes too soft and too mushy to taste good, and the nutrient loss is severe.

Squeezing the juice out of blanched cabbage

Some people like to blanch the vegetable and then squeeze out the juice; doing so causes a large loss of nutrients.

Do not wrap cabbage in newspaper

Some people, to save trouble, wrap cabbage in newspaper, but the ink on newspaper contains toxic heavy metal elements such as lead, chromium, cadmium and mercury, as well as carcinogens such as polychlorinated biphenyls, which will contaminate the cabbage. Eating cabbage like this is extremely bad for your health.

People with qi deficiency and cold stomach should not eat cabbage

Cabbage is common people's food, and many people eat it almost every day; it can be called a vegetable for everyone. However, cabbage is rather cold in nature, so people with qi deficiency and cold stomach should not eat too much of it, and people with wind-cold attacking the lungs and cough from lung cold should also eat less of it.

There is also the fact that cabbage should not be eaten together with mangosteen, yellow eel or rabbit meat; these foods clash, which is bad for health. This editor says their favorite is cabbage and pork stewed with vermicelli, and you?