Cabbage

Cabbage and I never had a great relationship. I recall being in my teens and asking what dinner was on certain nights. If the answer was anything with cabbage, 'kraut' or something of that nature, my evening was considered ruined. I loved food! Homemade french fry night.....that was a whole different evening.

Once I grasped the concept of how good cabbage was for me, I decided I would reintroduce it into the daily meal. Hidden at times, it still really boosts the cancer fighting enzymes in our foods and that's always a great idea.

Cabbage soup, roast cabbage and veggies, cabbage rolls made with brown rice. Shredded cabbage in a stir fry is delicious! It adds flavor - and I love the versatility of green and purple cabbage. I once made a soup so pink my daughter thought it had to have been made of pure magic.

Nutritionally, cabbage is incredible! 89 grams of raw cabbage gets us 2 grams of our dietary fiber. Most people don't get 1 gram in a day.

Fast food (in case that's all you ever eat) doesn't have any fiber at all. Why not you ask? Well, fiber is what keeps our digestive system regular. Fast food eliminates fiber, so eventually we can't eliminate at all and we become sick, full of you-know-what and that's it. Now you know. 

54% of Vitamin A? Calcium? This doesn't happen in any store bought processed or packaged foods, that's for sure.

There are so many great places to find out information about what we eat, what it contains and why it may be good for us (or not). One of those places is Self Nutrition Data. The link is for the nutritional information about cabbage - feel free to do your own searches for the foods you eat too.