Cauliflower supplies a tremendous amount of vitamin C, vitamin K, fiber, and folate, as well as a great supply of B vitamins, including B6 (pyridoxine), B5 (pantothenic acid), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), and vitamin B1 (thiamin). There are also minerals and other nutrients, such as potassium, protein, phosphorus, manganese, and magnesium, found in cauliflower.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF CAULIFLOWER
1) Weight Loss: - Cauliflower is a great food to include in your diet when you want to lose weight because it’s low in calories and can be used in a variety of ways. Try cooking the cauliflower into “rice” and using it in stir-fries instead of regular rice.
2) Heart Disease: - Cauliflower protects from heart disease in many ways. If your arteries remain flexible, you are less likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke. Cauliflower avoids the chronic blood vessel inflammation involved in arterial hardening. The potassium in cauliflower helps to keep your blood pressure under control which is one of the main reasons of heart attacks. It also reduces the LDL or bad cholesterol considerably. Cauliflower contains allicin, which can improve heart health.
3) Cancers: - Cauliflower is an excellent source of fiber, which helps to improve colon health and can even help prevent colon cancer. Cauliflower, contain indole-3-carbinol, a substance that can affect the metabolism of estrogen in the body, and prevent breast and other cancers that primarily strike women.
04) Fetus Development: - Folate found in cauliflower, is needed for cell growth and replication. For this reason, it is often recommended that women who are pregnant eat significant amounts of cauliflower in order to help their unborn children develop properly. folate, a B vitamin that prevents neural tube defects in the baby and helps the proper development of a baby’s brain and spinal cord.
05) Detoxification: - Cauliflower contains phytonutrients called glucosinolates, which are sulfur-containing compounds. They give cauliflower its pungent smell and flavor and they help our body get rid of toxins and carcinogens. When chewed, glucosinolates break down into their active form, known as sulforaphane, which is what then triggers and activates liver detoxification enzymes.
06) Healthy Bones: - It is due to the special combination of vitamins K and vitamin C; cauliflower can keep your bones healthy.
07) Digestion: - Dietary fiber is very important, as it helps clean the digestive system, making the stool move through the intestines more easily. Cauliflower is a great source of dietary fiber, which is essential for optimal digestion. Cauliflower also contains a compound called glucoraphanin, which protects your stomach and intestines from certain health conditions.
08) Arthritis: - Cauliflower is an excellent source of vitamin K and omega-3 fatty acids, both of which have been proven to lower the levels of chronic inflammation that are involved in diseases of arthritis.
09) Alzheimer: - Cauliflower (containing high levels of vitamin K) can help to prevent the sort of neuronal damage that can sometimes lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Research also suggests that eating cauliflower can help to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in those who already suffer from the condition.
10) Prevent premature aging: - As you grow, you have less collagen at your disposal, and collagen is necessary for resilient and elastic skin. Vitamin C in cauliflower helps your body to produce more collagen and helps you to grow old gracefully by promoting the maintenance of smooth, wrinkle-free skin.
Cauliflower should always be cooked before eating by steaming, sautéing, or roasting. Raw vegetables steal iodine from the body and the enzyme is not released for proper mineral absorption. Seasonings such as turmeric, ginger, and paprika go well with cauliflower and provide a nutritional and medicinal boost.
Once again, Medical Science confirms that which was written over 100+ years ago in the spirit of prophecy. Coarse Vegetables should be cooked and not eaten raw.
“In the study of hygiene, students should be taught the nutrient value of different foods. The effect of a concentrated and stimulating diet, also of foods deficient in the elements of nutrition, should be made plain. Tea and coffee, fine-flour bread, pickles, COARSE VEGETABLES, candies, condiments, and pastries FAIL OF SUPPLYING PROPER NUTRIMENT. MANY A STUDENT HAS BROKEN DOWN AS THE RESULT OF USING SUCH FOODS. Many a puny child, incapable of vigorous effort of mind or body, is the victim of an impoverished diet. Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, in proper combination, contain all the elements of nutrition; and WHEN PROPERLY PREPARED they constitute the diet that best promotes both physical and mental strength.” {Ed 204.3}
“A Scotchman is launching a new form of vegetarianism in Paris. Its members eat and drink nothing but uncooked vegetable foods and natural liquids.” {June 21, 1894 EJW, PTUK 398.13}
***Notice how in 1894, some Scotch man came up with the raw diet in food and drink. This did not come from Adventists. If this was the diet for us, GOD would have given Sister White that counsel in 1863 when He gave her the health message.
Cauliflower can be readily found at your local grocery and health food stores.
