3 types of vegetables you should buy right away: More nutritious than meat, cheaper than medicine, as cheap as dirt

Spinach

Spinach is a common source of plant-based nutrients in every family’s meal. Spinach comes in a variety of types: red spinach, rice spinach, and spine spinach. The vegetable has a sweet and cool taste, while containing many essential nutrients for the body. Iron content in spinach is quite high and it is the king of iron in vegetables. Consuming spinach can help reduce inflammation, is good for bones, and prevents cardiovascular and diabetes diseases. Regular consumption of spinach can stabilize blood sugar levels and improve type 2 diabetes.

Spinach also has the ability to reduce cholesterol levels in the body. In addition, tocotrienol – a type of vitamin E found in this vegetable also helps remove bad cholesterol and prevent coronary artery disease.

Spinach is high in fiber (three times more than wheat). Therefore, it can help improve digestion and prevent constipation. It is also a very good vegetable for children and the elderly. Water boiled from fresh spinach leaves also helps treat diarrhea, bleeding, and dehydration.

In addition, together with carrot juice, the cleansing properties of beetroot juice are very effective in treating diseases related to the gallbladder and kidneys.

There are many dishes that can be made from spinach such as: Spinach soup, stir-fried spinach with garlic, beetroot soup, beetroot juice…

Sweet potato

Usually, many people are only familiar with sweet potatoes, but few know that this vegetable also contains a lot of nutrients, and can be compared to kale.

These plants are rich in vitamins compared to sweet potato tubers because they contain 10 times more vitamin B10, 5 times more vitamin C, and 3 times more vitamin B6. More importantly, a vitamin that has a miraculous effect on our health is also found abundantly in sweet potato leaves.

Sweet potato leaves are also called by various names such as pennywort, test orange… They are the stems and leaves of the sweet potato plant, an herbaceous vegetable, and its tuber is a familiar ingredient to Vietnamese people.

In Eastern medicine, sweet potato leaves are a bình herb, non-toxic, and have the effects of nourishing health, benefiting the liver, enhancing vision, and curing acne…

In modern medicine, sweet potato leaves contain many nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin B6, riboflavin… These nutrients are similar to those in sweet potato tubers.

According to experts, eating sweet potato leaves has many benefits such as preventing heart disease, reducing the risk of osteoporosis, helping blood clot and reducing menstrual pain, supporting cancer treatment…

Specifically, eating sweet potato leaves can prevent heart disease. Many people experience heart pain due to the calcification process in their blood vessels, which causes plaque formation in the blood vessels. Vitamin K is known to be a very good factor in limiting this process, and you can completely intake it through consuming sweet potato leaves.

In addition, this vegetable also helps reduce the risk of osteoporosis: For women after menopause, imbalances in calcium content in the bones can cause the risk of osteoporosis. Supplementing vitamin K from sweet potato leaves will help balance the calcium content in the bones. Moreover, when combining vitamin D with vitamin K, it can help people with fractured bones recover quickly.

In addition to the above effects of vitamin K, it also has the ability to promote blood clotting, thereby helping the body recover from wounds quickly and reducing menstrual pain and premenstrual syndrome. In addition, newborns can also have bleeding if their bodies lack vitamin K. You can completely supplement vitamin K through regular consumption of sweet potato leaves.

Parsley

In ancient documents, parsley is not only a top-nutrient food, simple and mild, but parsley is also considered as an herb for disease treatment because parsley has excellent anti-inflammatory effects.

Parsley is an herbaceous plant that grows on the ground. In nature, parsley can grow 20-40cm tall, with green stems and leaves, and white flowers. Parsley is very easy to grow and requires little care. Just sow or plant with seedlings once, it can be harvested many times, year after year. The plant grows well all year round, can be used as food, and can also be used as medicine when necessary.

The parsley plant contains plenty of vitamin group B and minerals such as copper, pyridoxine, iron, niacin, mandan, thiamine, calcium, riboflavin… It also contains a lot of vitamin K, which is very good for people with osteoporosis,…

At the same time, parsley also has the function of dissolving stagnant blood, promoting blood circulation and detoxification. People can process parsley by cooking soup with shrimp or meat, or stir-frying with eggs…

According to experience from ancient times, parsley should not be used together with beef or buffalo meat. Eating parsley is very good for health as it helps reduce the risk of arteriosclerosis, prevent cancer, stimulate digestion, and prevent aging… However, there are some types of food that are not good for health when combined with parsley.