The popularized zucchini was Agatha Christie - her hero, a well-known detective, Hercule Poirot decided to rest and start growing zucchini in the village. Why zucchini? Why, this is a magic vegetable!
There are two legends that open our eyes to the history of the way of courgettes to the Old World. First, lyric, where Indian women, who were bored from day to day expecting their husbands anglers, idling, asked the gods to create a vegetable growing on the ground, but possessing all the magical tastes of seafood.
Secondarily, the legend is more realistic - it is believed that zucchini along with potatoes, tobacco, chocolate and other delights of Hispanic life, "came" with Spanish conquistadors from South America.
But, let's go back to the main question of why we need this oblong vegetable in the beds, that is, let's talk about the benefits and harm of zucchini.
Zucchini - benefits and contraindications
To begin with, zucchini is a product for everyone, old and small, sick and healthy. Zucchini is often part of diets for people with digestive problems, but all because they do not contain insoluble dietary fiber, but, on the contrary, have a high concentration of pectin substances. This element of the composition makes zucchini indispensable with a curative diet - they absorb everything that is in the digestive tract and gently excreted without straining the diseased digestive system. It is believed that if during the year you were treated with antibiotics, during the season of zucchini you must necessarily "sit down", because zucchini can clean the entire body of poisonous products of decay.
Zucchini contain potassium , which gives them the opportunity to withdraw sodium salts, that is, to relieve you of swelling. Due to this property zucchini is often used for weight loss - after all, excess weight is not only fat, but also old, used liquid, which is stored under the skin and in the form of cellulite.
The vitamin composition of zucchini makes of them a restorative remedy that is equally relevant for all ailments:
- vitamin C;
- vitamin PP;
- vitamins of group B.
Slimming with zucchini
Contrary to the opinion that it is better to eat vegetables fresh and unprocessed, in this case, the opposite is true. Raw zucchini is rarely used for weight loss, or for daily consumption. Zucchini either stew and bake or fry, mixing grated zucchini with flour, eggs, spices, herbs.
True fried zucchini there is a benefit, and harm - the benefit is due to the presence of the zucchini itself, but the harm lies in the frying. It's too fat for a diet.
Therefore, we recommend the following baked or stewed options for a diet:
- zucchini casserole - squash , greens, egg, rye flour;
- stewed zucchini with vegetables;
- zucchini stewed with fish;
- zucchini "boats" - stuff the halves of zucchini with any vegetables, then wrapped in foil, send to the oven.