A doctor with 24 years of experience explains why the right okroshka is one of the healthiest dishes that mankind has come up with
Let's eat today okroshka? I consider her one of the best foods to eat.
She is very good protein (eggs) and more complex carbohydrates (vegetables and herbs). A ryedisk - source sulforaphane and indole-3-carbinol, these substances play a huge role in the prevention of oncology. Moreover, these substances enter our organism in the maximum volume, since it never occurs to anyone to cook radishes.
There are a few more secrets that turn this dish into a truly rejuvenating one.
1. Don't peel the skin off the cucumbers! It contains a large amount of fiber, it is thanks to it that this vegetable is digested for 2 hours - the same amount as chicken. And it gives long lasting saturation. And without a skin, a cucumber flies through our digestive tract in 20 minutes.
2. Put in as much greenery as possible. Lots of greens = lots of fiber (which is very good for digestion) = lots of vitamins, especially B vitamins. Try adding cilantro, for example. I love arugula - it also has sulforaphane, plus you can not bother with mustard and horseradish. There are lovers to add sorrel - both in the form of greens and in the form of a decoction.
3. Use boiled meat. I am a staunch opponent of sausages and processed meat in general, the oncogenicity of these products has already been proven a hundred times. So just boil some beef or chicken.
4. Between kvass and kefir, I choose kefir with a low fat content, up to 3.2 percent. Dairy products are healing. Good kvass is also useful, it is a fermentation product, therefore, it is useful for digestion. However, read the label so you don't accidentally buy "lemonade" made from sugar, acid, and food additives. In any case, kvass should be consumed in moderation, as it contains a lot of carbohydrates.
5. Big mistake is to eat anything cold. The ideal food should be warm or, in the case of okroshka, at room temperature. Cold food leads to hypothermia of the mucous membranes, spasm of the biliary tract. This means that fats will not be digested, the motor activity of the intestine will decrease, and this is the path to constipation.
And how do you do the okroshka? What are you pouring?
Your Doctor Pavlova
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