Is it worth eating? Benefits, harms and calories of pickled cabbage

The acquaintance of a man with cabbage happened before people learned to write. More than 3.9 thousand years ago, the cultivation of cabbage on a large scale took its beginning and continues to this day.

White cabbage literally immediately began to be considered a useful vegetable and a medicinal plant as a whole. Due to its beneficial elements in its composition, on tables of nobility and commoners more and more often cabbage could be found.

There is a huge number of recipes for its preparation. Marinating cabbage is one of the most common ways to cook it. For pickling, choose a cabbage more mature, because young heads in the treatment acquire unnecessary softness.

The chemical composition of the white species

100 grams of white pickled cabbage has:

  • proteins - 1.07 g .;
  • fat - 1.50 g;
  • carbohydrate - 8.60 g.

White pickled cabbage includes micro and macro elements, namely:

Micro and macro elementsQuantity in 100 gr
Mono - and disaccharides4 g
Water94.7 g
Ash0.85 g
Starch0.07 g
Organic acids115 g
Alimentary fiber4.6 g
Potassium279.1 mg
Sodium22 mg
Calcium59.1 mg
Phosphorus28.4 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Sulfur38.8 mg
Boron184.9 mcg
Copper76.9 mcg
Aluminum528.5 mcg
Fluorine9.5 mcg
Chromium4.8 mcg
Iodine2.9 mcg
Manganese0.1657 mg
Molybdenum13.5 mcg
Chlorine1802.1 mg
Cobalt3.3 mcg
Zinc0.3881 mg
Nickel0.3881 mg
Iron0.8 mg

In addition to the above elements, cabbage, in its composition, is enriched with such vitamins as:

Vitamin nameQuantity in 100 gr
Vitamin C41.5 mg
Vitamin B9 - Folic8.97 mcg
Vitamin B1 - Thiamine0,027 mg
Vitamin B6 - Pyridoxine0.2 mg
Vitamin B2 - riboflavin0.039 mg
Vitamin E (TE)4.7 mg
Vitamin H - Biotin0.08 mcg
Vitamin B5 - Pantothenic0.3 mg
Vitamin A0.03 mg
Vitamin A (RE)20.1 mcg
Vitamin PP0.7 mg
Vitamin PP - Niacin equivalent0.8853 mg

The chemical composition of kelp

100 grams of marinated cabbage has:

  • proteins - 0.93 g;
  • fat - 0.25 g .;
  • carbohydrates - 1.8 g

The indicators of micro and macro in pickled seaweed are as follows:

Micro and macro elementsQuantity in 100 gr
Water0.87 g
Ash0.08 g
Organic acids38.1 g
Alimentary fiber1.1 g
Calcium42.6 mg
Phosphorus53.9 mg
Magnesium165.7 mg
Potassium945.3 mg
Sodium509.5 mg
Sulfur1.9 mg
Manganese0,0026 mg
Copper2.8 mcg
Molybdenum1.5 mcg
Iron15.8 mg
Cobalt0.2 mcg
Zinc0,0059 mg
Chlorine574.4 mg

Vitamins that are part of sea kale:

Vitamin nameQuantity in 100 gr
Vitamin C1.85 mg
Vitamin B9 - Folic2.5 mcg
Vitamin B1 - Thiamine0.05 mg
Vitamin B6 - Pyridoxine0.03 mg
Vitamin B2 - riboflavin0.07 mg
Vitamin PP0.45 mg
Vitamin PP - Niacin equivalent0.5495 mg
Vitamin A0.2 mg
Vitamin A (RE)103 mcg

How many calories?

Pickled cabbage is an excellent dish for those who count calories in their diet. So how many calories in white cabbage and sea kale?

CabbageCalories per 100 grams, kcal
White-headed51.4
White with beets47.1
White with butter72.2
Sea62.5

What is useful white species?

Important! White cabbage in pickled form, with proper storage, is able to retain all the vitamins in itself for more than seven months. At the same time, it even gains additional benefits by combining with other components that are necessary and important to humans.

Pickled cabbage contains the minimum amount of acid, unlike fermented sorbate, which means that it is a lighter product for the digestive system.

All the useful properties of such cabbage are countless, but there are a few basic ones:

  1. Pickled cabbage, with its regular use, increases the protective functions of immunity, helps to cope with stress and fatigue.
  2. It helps to improve the work of the intestines, as well as the use of pickled cabbage accelerates all metabolic processes in the body.
  3. Due to the sufficient amount of vitamins, it prevents the occurrence of beriberi, thereby limiting us from eating synthetic vitamin preparations during the off-season.

Contraindications to the use

By its structure, cabbage is enriched with a significant amount of coarse plant fiber. This information tells us that in some cases, its use can lead to intestinal flatulence. You should not include this dish:

  • with indigestion;
  • colitis;
  • if the acidity of the stomach is increased;
  • with enteritis;
  • in case of myocardial infarction.
Attention! Nursing mothers should be careful to use pickled cabbage, according to its properties such a dish can provoke bloating or intestinal upset.

The use of kelp

Is pickled seaweed good for you? Of course yes. At the moment, scientists continue to discover new useful properties of kelp, which leads to an increase in demand for such a useful product.

Laminaria, also known as kelp, is widely used not only as food, but also in medicine and cosmetology.

Numerous vitamins and elements of sea kale endow it with a number of useful qualities.:

  1. The iodine contained in the kelp does not collapse during any heat treatment, which allows a person to obtain a sufficient amount of this element for his vital activity, without worrying about the way it is prepared.
  2. Eating seaweed prevents atherosclerosis and the appearance of blood clots.
  3. Being a kind of "cleaner" for blood vessels, it does not allow cholesterol to accumulate on their walls.
  4. Laminaria normalizes metabolic processes and replenishes and maintains the desired water balance in the body.

During the diet it is necessary to refuse pickled seaweed, as the spices used in the marinade can have a bad effect on getting the desired effect.

Contraindications to the use

Important! In addition to the obvious benefits, pickled sea kale can also cause health damage.

Having a lot of vitamins and mineral elements in its composition, kelp has a number of contraindications for some groups of people, namely:

  1. People who are allergic, intolerant or hypersensitive to iodine are strictly forbidden to eat such a product.
  2. Do not include kelp in the diet of a child whose age has not reached 3 years.
  3. Pregnant women should eliminate or minimize the ingestion of seaweed in their diets, as iodine in its composition can cause an abnormality in the fetus.
  4. Suffering from furunculosis, as well as people with kidney disease is not recommended to use sea kale.

Choosing sea kale, pay attention to where it came from, or rather where it grew. This plant is able to absorb from its environment (sea water) not only useful, but also harmful substances, and if the place of growth was in polluted waters, it is better not to use such cabbage.

We offer you the recipes for cooking pickled cabbage: with beet in Georgian, Guri-style, with turmeric, in hot marinade, with bell pepper or chili, in Korean, with garlic, slices, with carrots and other vegetables.

Conclusion

Marinated cabbage, both white and sea cabbage, is rich in all the necessary vitamins, micro and macro elements for a balanced and proper human nutrition. With regular use of products of plant origin, in fresh or pickled form, you protect your body from many different ailments.

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