Simple, tasty, healthy salad. And colorful vegetables gladdens the eyes with bright colors.

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Simple, tasty, healthy salad. And colorful vegetables gladdens the eyes with bright colors. In just 10 minutes you will create a charge of health and mood for the whole family.

In the diet must include vegetable salads. Light vegetable salads will help to put in order the figure and replenish the body with vitamins.

Recipes of vegetable salads are usually made on the basis of: tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet peppers. Another rule of a delicious salad is slicing, namely, it is necessary to cut vegetables equally. Light salads are filled with olive oil.

Ingredients: tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet red pepper (Bulgarian), green onions, dill, basil, parsley, salt, oil.

Everybody knows a tomato. And of course, the important character of Tomatore was the character of Gianni Rodari's fairytale novel The Adventures of Cipollino.

Once upon a time believed that a tomato is a fruit. But at the end of the nineteenth century, it was decided that this was still a vegetable. The homeland of the tomato is South America. In its native land (in Peru, Ecuador, Chile), this plant is still found in the wild and is considered a weed. Ukraine learned about tomatoes at the end of the XVIII century. But then it was just an ornamental plant.

Useful properties of tomatoes

Useful properties of tomatoes are due to the presence in it of easily digestible carbohydrates - fructose, glucose, sucrose, pectin substances, organic acids (citric, apple). Tomatoes also include carotene, potassium salts, minerals: magnesium, cobalt, copper, chromium, zinc, manganese, molybdenum. And, of course, vitamins.

Cucumber - Indian liana

Cucumbers are known as a plant plant for about six thousand years.

The homeland of the cucumber is northwestern India.

Fruit of a cucumber, like a pumpkin, a berry. In India, wild cucumbers grow in the forest, twisting trees like creepers. Cucumbers are fences in the villages. With a dense planting of batch-crops cucumbers rise, clinging to the requisites for them framed.

Cucumber is depicted in the frescoes of Ancient Egypt and in Greek temples, allows you to judge about his venerable age.

Records of a cucumber are recorded even in the Guinness book.

Records of a cucumber are recorded even in the Guinness book. Thus, a long cucumber - 1.83 m, grown in Hungary, and refers to the Chinese variety of cucumbers. In the room you can grow a cucumber weighing more than 6 kg, and in the air - not much less - 3.7 kg.

In the old days, when cucumbers were a rarity

In former times, when cucumbers were a rarity, the Turkish sultan Mohammed the Second, cruel and greedy, once ordered to cut the stomachs of his seven subordinates to find out which of them ate one of the cucumbers sent to him as a gift,

Cucumber fruits have very valuable taste qualities.

Cucumber fruits have a very valuable taste, dietary and medicinal properties.

It is unusual that he is the only vegetable whose fruits we eat in green, immature. The history of the appearance of a cucumber on our table is very interesting in itself.

Useful properties of pepper

The intense red color of pepper is explained by the presence of the pigment of lycopene, a natural antioxidant. The sweet red pepper contains vitamins.

Low caloric value

The low calorie content of the product makes the pepper a red sweet coveted ingredient of fasting days and many diets. But everyone knows that without training in the gym you can not lose weight, except that you kill yourself with starvation. The most effective way to lose weight and get fit is sports and proper nutrition!

Pepper can be added to many dishes

Pepper sweet red is very elegant and can be effectively served in salads and cold appetizers, even cut into strips, it looks great on any table. Pepper sweet red baked, grilled, stuffed with meat and vegetable filling, is used to soften meat, baking it along with large chunks.

Champion of vegetables

According to the content of vitamin C, the Bulgarian pepper is second only to the dog rose and black currant, and among vegetables it is the absolute champion. In addition, there is a rather rare vitamin P in pepper that helps the absorption of ascorbic acid and makes pepper an indispensable assistant to our heart and blood vessels.

Not so long ago, Italian scientists found in sweet pepper substances, which can reduce the risk of developing malignant tumors. Especially a lot of such substances in green fruits. That's why scientists recommend eating at least one green pepper every day. And the main fans of pepper should be women - although this vegetable protects against cancer of any localization, it particularly effectively prevents breast tumors.

There are plants whose healing properties of glory are spread all over the world.

This can be said about onions - a vegetable, which is considered the most common product.

History

His story is very interesting. For the first time in Asia, wild-growing green bows began to be used. Shepherds - nomads were very happy when they met the thickets of this delightful plant. Then we learned that there are also bulbs. Then on the trade routes the onion gets to Egypt, and there it becomes a cult plant. He is worshiped and even made gold sculptures. Often also an image of a bulb on frescoes and paintings of that time. Then the onion gets to Ancient Greece and becomes there a medical potion that athletes rubbed the muscles for the fortress before participating in the most important competitions. They sacredly believed that the onions would give them extra strength. In Rome, warriors ate a lot of onions for strength, endurance and solving problems with the intestines. And it must have helped them.

Green onions are young shoots of a traditional onion, which can be bought all year round in the store. Very useful and tasty vegetable with a full set of minerals.

Dill - a beautiful plant with a pleasant delicate smell

Dill is a beautiful plant with a pleasant gentle smell, which is used in the food industry, used in seasonings, added to soup, salads from dill, water, seeds. Dill is a very good plant that helps in cooking!

As a child, I helped plant dill

When I once grew fennel. Once I went with my grandmother to the village. The weather was sunny, and nothing prevented my grandmother from working in the garden. In the meantime, while my grandmother worked, I rested, amused myself, caught butterflies and sunbathed in the sun. But suddenly my grandmother called me. I immediately ran to her. When I approached her, she gave me the task of planting dill. I never dipped fennel into my life and did not even know how to do it. But my grandmother told me everything and showed me. With her help, I learned to plant not only dill, but also radish with onions.

Useful properties of dill

Due to the presence of magnesium and iron salts in dill, the processes of hematopoiesis are greatly enhanced in a highly digestible form. Essential oil promotes better formation of bile, digestive enzymes, urine, and also provides disinfection of the body, especially in the genitourinary and digestive system.

Basil violet

Basil violet is a spicy plant, one of the species of basil. The plant got its name because of the violet color of the leaves. Vasily is the representative of the Gubotsvetny family. The plant belongs to the mint family. Basil violet - an annual plant that reaches 50 cm in height, with a large number of leaves of rich violet.

How to grow basil in your home

Cultivation of a violet basil under normal conditions is quite problematic. Basil refers to annual plants. Spicy grass is planted in open areas only on sunny and warm areas, even in summer the basil will die if there is not enough heat. For sale and for home consumption, basil is grown in closed ground. The soil for planting basil must be fertile and water-permeable.

Beneficial features basil

Basil has a very beneficial effect on the body, improves immunity, increases brain activity and has a good memory effect. It is rich in vitamins B2, C, A, PP, tannins, essential oils, common and other useful ingredients.

Parsley

This spicy plant is a find for those who want to take care of the health of their body with the help of natural means. It is valued for a unique combination of vitamins and microelements, high biological activity of the components of the composition. The availability of parsley at any time of the year, its ability to store for a long time without losing its unique qualities, ease of processing and manufacturing of various products, a variety of methods for long-term storage - all this makes parsley irreplaceable for a home pharmacy.

Vitamins of parsley

Vitamins contained in parsley are active antioxidants, removing free radicals from the body. They protect the immune system, cells and tissues of the body, contribute to their recovery and active renewal.

Beneficial features

This spicy plant is useful both for women and for men and actively helps in solving specific health problems for men and women.

Useful properties of parsley

Parsley also contains bioflavonoids and essential oils. Among other things, it has a high content of trace elements, which is extremely necessary for deficiency of calcium, zinc, phosphorus, iron or magnesium. In these cases, the introduction of parsley into your daily diet will be very beneficial.

Salt can be classified, for example, by a method of production or extraction, by the degree of grinding and purification, by the content of sodium and impurities.

Although some salts may contain more minerals than table salt, they can not be considered sources of the corresponding minerals (except iodized salt). With moderate consumption, regardless of the type of salt, the minerals accompanying sodium come in very small amounts.

Salt is the most popular of food additives.

Without this, it is impossible to imagine one dish on our daily or festive table. This is not just a habit caused by individual preferences in food. Drinking salt is needed for a person! For a modern, meaningless meal and very dependent on the taste experienced by the human food industry.

Salt is the most powerful of the most common and most common strong flavor enhancers. It should be understood that a complete rejection of salt is almost impossible. A salt-free diet is used only for certain diseases, such as kidney failure and urinary tract diseases, and only under strict control. Such a diet can cause significant harm, even to death from the violation of water-salt balance, unprepared human body. In this regard, in order to properly organize your diet and determine the dose of salt in your daily diet, you need to understand what sodium chloride is, and remember a few key rules for its use.

Sunflower oil for Ukrainians is almost an integral part of the diet.

Despite the fact that it contains many useful substances due to improper use, it can harm your body.

Advantages of sunflower oil:

- thanks to linoleic acid increases the immune defense of the body;
- reduces the level of harmful cholesterol;
- prevents the development of cancer;
- has a rejuvenating effect, as it contains a lot of vitamin E;
- prevents the development of atherosclerosis, thrombophlebitis, chronic liver disease, stomach, lungs, intestines;
- participates in the exchange of proteins and carbohydrates, improves memory, has a positive effect on the function of sex, endocrine glands.

Black pepper

Black pepper is a well-known spice, which is added to many dishes to improve the taste. It is the fruit of a bush that belongs to the Pepper family. The native land of the plant is India.

Red pepper

Pepper is not that simple as it seems! For example, red pepper. This spice is constantly on our table, and we do not notice it.

The birthplace of red hot pepper is considered the tropical zone of America.

Mix everything. And the salad is ready.

Salads from fresh vegetables are the best food at any time of the year. From April to September they are satisfied with juicy fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and pepper, and from autumn until next spring - a boiled combination of root vegetables and pickled olives.