KOMPAS.com – Apart from being processed into cooking, vegetables can also be enjoyed as vegetable salads, usually for diet purposes.
Some ingredients that are suitable to include in vegetable salad ingredients include lettuce, cabbage, carrots and cucumber.
Check out the ingredients that are suitable for salads, quoted from the book “Cafe-style Salad Recipes” (2012) by the Cooking Idea Team published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama.
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1. Lettuce leaves
The contents of lettuce leaves include vitamins and minerals, fiber, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulforaphane, beta-carotene, vitamin E.
Lettuce leaves are suitable as a salad ingredient because they don’t need to be cooked, apart from that they improve digestion, increase the body’s immunity by creating an alkaline condition, overcome anemia, and reduce the risk of cancer.
2. Kapri
Peas can also be used as an ingredient in vegetable salad. Contains beta-carotene, chlorophyll, vitamins B1 and B2, vitamin C, phosphorus, potassium, fiber and pectin, as well as protease inhibitors.
The health benefits of peas can improve the function of the digestive organs, relieve constipation and hemorrhoid disorders, reduce the risk of cancer and help overcome cancer.
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3. Potatoes
Potatoes in vegetable salad can be used as a substitute for rice because they are rich in carbohydrates, vitamin C and B complex.
Potatoes are useful for preventing premature aging of the skin and are good for digestion.
4. Paprika
If you want to taste a little spicy taste, you can add paprika which contains vitamin C, phosphorus, potassium, lycopene, chlorophyll and lutein.
Paprika can reduce excess blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, relieve inflammation, and reduce excess mucus production (phlegm, snot, etc.).
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5. Cucumber
Cucumber is one of the vegetables that is suitable for making vegetable salads, it can be consumed directly without cooking and it tastes fresh.
Cucumbers contain vitamin C, elaterase enzymes, beta-carotene, the amino acid trptophan, and curcubitain.
The benefits of cucumber can calm, relieve stress, rejuvenate cells and prevent aging, treat the kidneys and urinary tract and control hypertension.
6. Col
Not only for soup, cabbage is also suitable for vegetable salads because it contains vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, potassium, calcium, fiber and sulforaphane.
Cabbage can improve immunity, reduce the risk of cancer and help overcome cancer, reduce the risk of bone loss, and control blood sugar levels.
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7. Carrots
Carrots may need to be cooked somehow blanching to add to vegetable salads. Carrots contain coumarin, lutein, beta-carotene, lycopene, calcium and phosphorus.
Eating carrots can lower excess blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, reducing the risk of stroke and heart attack.
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8. Tomato
Cherry tomatoes are also often found as a vegetable salad ingredient that can be consumed directly.
Tomatoes contain the nutrients beta-carotene, lycope beta-sitosterol, phosphorus, magnesium and vitamin C.
Can reduce the risk of cancer, improve bile function, and increase body immunity, ward off flu, control blood pressure, control blood sugar levels, overcome spikes in blood cholesterol and triglycerides.
