Only salad you eat? And fill up? Appetizer salad is ...... Can some years ago the salad to be a side dish, but today may well be a complete meal! The Greek salad is one of the most common and favorite dishes, which is open daily at the tables of the Greeks-and beyond.
It is no coincidence, also the fact that tourists who visit Greece often choose a salad as a main meal.
Let us now see in detail how nutritious and adequate to meet our needs is this "famous" salad.
The tomato is the main ingredient. Has few calories and are a rich source of vitamin C. It also gives the body sufficient amounts of other vitamins such as vitamin A. Known for its antioxidant action is lycopene contained in tomatoes, which is extremely important for men, since its intake has been associated with reducing the risk of prostate cancer.
Second component of rustic salad is cucumber. The water content reaches 97% and therefore classified as vegetables with the fewest calories. The nutritional value of cucumber is poor. Of vitamins and minerals containing some minimal vitamin K and potassium. The increased water content helps to replenish lost body fluids.
Peppers, apart from its rich flavor, which is rich in vitamin C. Also contain carotenoids, vitamin B6, manganese, and vitamin A. All these nutrients contained in a vegetable few calories. Did you know that a raw pepper contains more vitamin C than a glass of orange juice?
The onion could not be missing from the traditional Greek salad. The onion has antioxidant and antiseptic action. Surveys indicate that consumption contributes probably to protect the human body from cancer.
Food-drug is olive oil! It is rich in liposoluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and also contains B and C. The highest percentage of these vitamins is owned by A and E. Vitamin E has potential anticancer activity, seen as essential to the maintenance of normal reproductive capacity of the organization. It also helps reduce "bad" cholesterol. Can the benefits of olive oil be many, but care is needed in quantity, as it is a high calorie food.
The olives are rich in nutrients and compete with extra virgin olive oil. Contain significant amounts of vitamin A and carotenoids in small quantities vitamins B1, B6 and B12. Black olives are richer in total tocopherols in relation to green and the only ones that contain beta-tocopherols and alpha-tocotrienols. The trace of the olives are potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium. The olives are kept in brine, thus contain large amounts of sodium.
The slice belongs to the group of meat. Contains high protein nutritional value and calcium. It is also rich in vitamins, particularly the B group, such as thiamine, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and B12. Apart from calcium, other minerals containing is phosphorus, fluorine and zinc. Feta, like most cheeses have enough fat. If you do not want, then, to move much calories of salad, we should be especially careful in the amount of cheese you eat. Also, feta is quite salty cheese and therefore it is advisable to avoid adding extra salt to the salad.
The final touch of flavor and aroma in the salad will give, rich in antioxidants, oregano.
Finally, a kind of group of starch (bread, rusk, toast, croutons) is missing, so that our salad turned into a complete and healthy meal that will supply us with all the necessary nutrients, but not us causes heaviness or discomfort.
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