Endive properties: nutritional benefits of endive buds, an ideal vegetable for salads with anti-inflammatory action and extremely rich in fiber.
The raw endive is certainly a perfect plant for the production of delicious salads, especially thanks to its light like the lettuce. In fact, as with lettuce, endive leaves tend to discolor easily, so it is best to paint them with a little lemon juice.
Its flavor stands out for being a certainly bitter flavor, hence when it is made in salads, the most recommended is to accompany it with other slightly sweeter foods, such as fruits.
With its root, for example, you can make a beneficial decoction, which even when it has been previously dried and roasted can become an excellent substitute for coffee (as is the case with chicory).
If you love endive, as if you want to start adding it to your dishes, knowing the properties of endive is interesting from a nutritional point of view, because it is a highly beneficial vegetable for our health and recommended in our diet.
Benefits of envy
As with white lettuce buds, endive becomes an ideal food to include in delicious, light and nutritious salads, giving it a light –and curious- bitter taste. It is noteworthy that this flavor will depend directly on whether or not it has been protected from the sun during its growth, since the more sun, the more bitter it will be.
But as with the artichoke, precisely to that bitter taste we owe most of the properties that we find in raw endive (lactone and coumarin).
Both are substances with anti-inflammatory action, making it an ideal food to alleviate the symptoms of diseases such as arthritis and gout.
It is a vegetable recommended in people with diabetes, thanks to the fact that it helps regulate blood sugar levels, while it is able to lower high cholesterol levels and increase good cholesterol.
It is rich in fiber, so that its consumption is interesting not only against constipation, but to stimulate the health of the intestine thanks to the fact that it exerts a prebiotic action on our digestive system.
In addition, it is a recommended food in autumn and winter, because it helps to increase the defenses by strengthening the immune system.
