Black radish

Black radish is the most bitter representative of this family, but it is also the most useful. Despite the fact that black radish does not contain too much supply of vitamins, its vitamin composition, one might say, is balanced almost perfectly.

Meanwhile, black radish is a biennial vegetable plant that is widespread throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Outwardly, black radish is distinguished by a thickened rhizome, which is a food. By the way, it is customary to eat not only root vegetables, but also young foliage of black radish - to add it to soups and various salads.

The use of peeled root vegetables of black radish, which, after removing the dense black skin, reveal snow-white flesh, is not limited only to raw use. Very often, cookers use this vegetable to boil or fry, and then add it to salads, okroshka, snacks, soups, borscht, various vegetable and meat dishes.

Benefits of black radish

The burning taste and beneficial properties of black radish are due to the content of essential oils, and the vegetable has a characteristic sharpness due to glycosides. In addition, proteins, sugars, fats, enzymes, fiber, carotene, vitamin V1 and C, choline, calcium, magnesium, potassium, organic sulfur compounds, purine bases, as well as lysozyme, which has a strong bactericidal effect, are present in the rhizomes of black radish.

The benefits of black radish are especially manifested if you consume this product in the form of juice. Black radish juice helps with cough, bronchitis, hoarseness and colds. In addition, it is recommended to drink for diseases of the liver and gallbladder, bronchi and rheumatism.

The benefits of black radish are known as a food that contributes to the normalization of the secretory functions of the digestive glands, as well as as a drug that enhances the formation and release of the necessary amount of bile into the intestines from the gallbladder.

Black radish is advised to be used for cholecystitis and intestinal atonia, and as a preventive agent - for the probable development of cholelithiasis, gastritis and hypacid duodenostasis. Due to the ability to remove excess cholesterol from the body, this product is recommended for use in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.

Harm of black radish

Despite such an obvious benefit, unfortunately, there is also the likely harm of black radish to human health. In particular, this is relevant for people who suffer from chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal organs in the stage of exacerbation, glomerulonephritis or have recently suffered a heart attack. In addition, the use of black radish juice is contraindicated in the presence of heart disease, kidney disease, as well as peptic ulcer of the 12th intestine and stomach.