Cabbage, potatoes and a piece of roast meat. Sounds like a delicious winter meal. There are even more winter vegetables that have been forgotten, but are often much healthier. We tell you which types of vegetables you should definitely try!
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Spicy pak choi
It originally comes from China and is also called mustard cabbage. It tastes sharp, very slightly sweet and hardly like cabbage. It contains hardly any calories, but many vitamins and minerals:
- Vitamin A, B, C, E, K1
- beta carotene
- folic acid
- calcium
- Potassium
- Requirements
- Senföle
Pak Choi can be boiled or used in a salad. The white stalks can be prepared like asparagus. The mustard oil it contains strengthens the immune system, promotes blood circulation and digestion and warms the skin .
Kale and palm kale as alternatives to kale
Older cabbage varieties such as red kale or Friesian palm cabbage have a much finer taste and do not have a bitter aftertaste. Some of them are so tender that they can even be eaten raw. They provide many healthy nutrients with few calories :
- Vitamin A, B, C, K
- calcium
Jerusalem artichoke as a potato alternative
Jerusalem artichoke is a root vegetable and tastes slightly sweet and nutty. The vegetable does not contain any starch, as is the case with potatoes, for example, but consists of the dietary fiber inulin. This swells in the stomach and fills you up quickly and for a long time, which is why Jerusalem artichoke is particularly suitable for diabetics. Blood sugar remains constant. It contains minerals and trace elements such as:
- Potassium
- Magnesium
- calcium
