Is micro red cabbage the next superfood?
Red cabbage has been used for centuries (since the 16th century) for many things including food, medicine and even dye. That’s no surprise considering the staggering amount of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that benefit your health.
In fact, compared to green cabbage, red cabbage has 10 times the amount of vitamins, cancer-fighting flavonoids and antioxidants to help boost eye, bone, teeth and immune health. So, you can imagine how much more potent and powerful micro red cabbage is, rich as it is in vitamin C, K and A, potassium, beta-carotene, calcium, magnesium, and antioxidants.
NUTRIENTS IN MICRO RED CABBAGE
The below demonstrates the difference in nutrients of micro red cabbage versus its mature vegetable counterpart.
times more Vitamin C
Micro Nutrient: 147mg/100g fresh weight
Mature Veg Nutrients 24.4mg/100g fresh weight
times more Vitamin K
Micro Nutrient: 280 µ/100g fresh weightt
Mature Veg Nutrients 4 µ/100g fresh weight
times more Vitamin A
Micro Nutrient: 11.5mg/100g fresh weight
Mature Veg Nutrients 0.044mg/100g fresh weight
BENEFITS OF MICRO RED CABBAGE
Apart from the powerful nutritional punch highlighted above, micro red cabbage comes with a range of other benefits that will make you want to incorporate it into your everyday diet.
- Easy to prepare: Best consumed raw due to its delicate nature, micro red cabbage preparation is as simple as mixing it in with your salad or added as a garnish. At April Sun, we’ve incorporated a heap of it into our Micro Salad Mix for a fresh and crisp taste packed full of nutrients.
- Great for eye health: Overflowing with vitamin A – which protects your eyes from night blindness and age-related decline – micro red cabbage is excellent for ocular health.
- Natural beauty booster: Instead of dosing up on pills, add micro red cabbage to your diet. It’s full of sulphur, which your body uses to produce keratin – the protein responsible for strong and healthy hair, skin and nails.
- Beauty and brains: If sulphur boosts beauty, then all that vitamin K micro red cabbage holds will feed your brain function, protecting against nerve damage – and potentially Alzheimer’s Disease.
- Lower blood pressure: Thanks to all that potassium, micro red cabbage can help ease blood flow around the body and keep your blood pressure even.
- Help maintain weight: Early testing has revealed that micro red cabbage could limit weight gain and keep cholesterol at healthy levels – plus, they provide an antioxidant dose sure to lower triglycerides (fat found in your blood) in the liver.
- Cancer and stress preventative: Micro red cabbage contains glucosinolates (sulphur-based chemicals), which protect DNA against damage, reduce inflammation and promote unhealthy cell death.
Red cabbage is also a rich source of anthocyanins, which as well as colouring food, can deter the growth of cancer tumours, limit oxidative stress (linked to a plethora of diseases, ranging from Parkinson’s to asthma) and fight carcinogens that are inhaled, ingested or absorbed by any other means.
While the list – and scientific research – goes on, we have no doubt red cabbage is fast on its way to becoming a superfood.
Not only is it available year-round, thanks to cutting-edge technology that we employ at April Sun, it’s a true and natural source of a plethora of nutrients your body needs.
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