Is cauliflower cool in nature?

Cauliflower is a cold food, which means that female friends should reduce the number of times they eat this vegetable during their menstrual period. If they consume too much, their dysmenorrhea will become more serious. Patients with weak spleen and stomach should also pay attention to this situation. However, for other people, eating cauliflower regularly can help digestion and enhance appetite.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory

[Alias] Cauliflower, cauliflower, broccoli.

【Nature and flavor】Cool in nature, sweet in taste.

[return through meridians]returns the stomach, liver and lung meridians.

【Effects】Aids digestion, increases appetite, promotes salivation and quenches thirst.

Nutritional analysis

Cauliflower is more nutritious than ordinary vegetables. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, U and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. Cauliflower has a tender texture and sweet and delicious taste. It is very easy to digest and absorb after eating. Its tender stem fiber is tender and delicious after cooking. It is suitable for consumption by middle-aged and elderly people, children, and those with weak spleen and stomach and poor digestive function. Especially during the hot summer, when you have dry mouth, golden urine, hard or blocked stools, boil 30 grams of cauliflower into a soup and drink it frequently. It has the effect of clearing away heat and thirst, and promoting diuresis and defecation.

The nutrients contained in every 100 grams of cauliflower include calories (24.00 kcal), protein (2.10 grams), fat (0.20 grams), carbohydrates (4.60 grams), dietary fiber (1.20 grams), vitamin A (5.00 micrograms), carotene (30.00 micrograms), thiamine (0.03 milligrams), riboflavin (0.08 milligrams), niacin (0.60 milligrams), vitamin C (61.00 milligrams), vitamin E (0.43 milligrams), calcium (23.00 milligrams), phosphorus (47.00 milligrams), potassium (200.00 milligrams), sodium (31.60 milligrams), magnesium (18.00 milligrams), iron (1.10 milligrams), zinc (0.38 milligrams), selenium (0.73 micrograms), copper (0.05 milligrams), and manganese (0.17 milligrams).

Scientists in the United States and other countries have found that its main ingredients have anti-cancer effects. Cauliflower contains "sofrafen", which can stimulate cells to produce protective enzymes that are beneficial to the body - type II enzymes. This enzyme, which has very strong anti-cancer activity, enables cells to form a membrane that resists erosion by foreign carcinogens, and plays a positive role in preventing many cancers.

Animal experiments have shown that it can increase the activity of aromatic hydrocarbon hydroxylase in the liver of experimental mice by 54 times and the activity in the small intestinal mucosa by 30 times, thereby enabling the microsomal multifunctional oxidase system in somatic cells (especially liver cells) to decompose carcinogens and other harmful compounds that enter the human body, thereby keeping the human body in a benign cycle state for a long time.