Dried Cabbage Flakes

Cabbage

Botanical name: Brassica oleracea capitata

Cabbage is a popular cultivar of the species Brassica oleracea of the family Brassicaceae and is a leafy green vegetable. Cabbage leaves often have a delicate, powdery, waxy coating called bloom. The uniqueness of cabbage in cancer prevention is due to the three different types of nutrient richness found in this widely enjoyed food. These are antioxidant richness, anti-inflammatory richness, and richness in glucosinolates. Cabbages are also a good source of riboflavin. Cabbage is an excellent source of vitamin C. It also contains significant amounts of glutamine, an amino acid that has anti-inflammatory properties. The characteristic flavor of cabbage is caused by glucosinolates, a class of sulfur-containing glucosides.

Benefits and uses:

The fruits, leaves, oil, and seeds are edible and used by local people as folk medicines in the treatment of jaundice, diabetes, ulcer, piles, colitis, insanity, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure, and skin diseases.

The fruit pulp is used as an emetic, sedative, purgative, cooling, diuretic, antibilious, and pectoral.

The flowers are an antidote to poison. The stem bark and rind of the fruit are diuretic. The seed is vermifuge. Extracts of the plant have shown antibiotic activity.

The fruit Juice is an excellent remedy for heart problems, digestive and urinary disorders, and in diabetes. Dietary fiber present in bottle gourd helps in constipation, flatulence, and even in piles. Topical application of a mixture of juice and sesame oil on scalp gives beneficial results in baldness (hair loss).

The juice also shows better effects in the treatment of insomnia, epilepsy, and other nervous diseases. Moreover it helps break up calculus (stones) in the body.

Commercially the shell of well-ripened fruits is very hard and can be used for many purposes such as bottles, bowls, musical instruments, etc.

Bottle gourd is not only rich in essential minerals, iron, protein and trace elements; it is also rich in fiber. Fiber helps in preventing constipation and other digestive disorders like flatulence and piles.

It helps for increasing efficiency of heart and brings immune in body. Bottle Gourd play role as energizer for body and mind, it is non allergenic.