Want to add a healthy vegetable to your diet? Make sure it’s cauliflower.
Cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable. It’s a part of the same family as broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, and others. It has a high level of anti-inflammatory compounds, plus the ability to ward off certain diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and weight gain. It’s an excellent source of antioxidants and phytochemicals, as well as a supplier of essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
While cauliflower is a part of the Brassica crops, it’s benefits extend beyond other vegetables like broccoli and cabbage because of its combination of carotenoids, tocopherols, and ascorbic acid. Extensive research is showing that cauliflower leads the way in benefiting your body as one of the top low caloric, highly beneficial ingredients you can add to your meals in many different ways. It can:
Help reduce cancer. The bioactive components in cauliflower can have beneficial effects on biomarkers of cancer-related processes.
Fight inflammation. Cauliflower produces a heavy dose of inflammation fighting elements that ward of inflammation throughout your body.
Reduce heart disease. Women who eat three or more portions a day had thinner artery walls, meaning blood vessels are clearer, making it easier for blood to flow.
Weight loss. The key to weight loss is to expend more calories than you take in. Cauliflower can be used in many different ways and is a low calorie food. A perfect way for you to feel full, longer, without adding in extra calories.
While there’s a lot of benefits to eating cauliflower, you don’t have to keep bowls of it around you to snack on every day. In fact, there are some pretty amazing things you can do with cauliflower. Want some ideas?
How about using it as a pizza crust?
Make cauliflower rice, and you can include it in any dish where grain rice would go.
Or include it in a bowl.
With just a little imagination, you can incorporate cauliflower into your meals every day.
How do you use cauliflower?