Rhubarb. Benefit and harm of this product
The stem of a rhubarb - what is it useful for us?
By the content of vitamins this product can becompare with apples. In some ways, rhubarb, the benefits and harms of which are known to many who have sat on fruit diets or are fond of home canning, even surpass those fruits. It contains a lot of pectin, organic acids, mineral salts (including calcium salts), magnesium, phosphorus. Rhubarb is low in calories (sixteen kilocalories per hundred grams of fresh product).
Rhubarb - good and bad
Any medicinal plant has contraindications to use.
Dishes from rhubarb
A small sugar content of the stems, as well as a highthe concentration of malic acid allows to use them in baking. In German, Swedish, Danish cuisine, many recipes with rhubarb. Most of them are sweet dishes. A distinctive feature of rhubarb is its good compatibility with many products and spices. For example, in pies and jams it is combined with strawberries, add to the dishes and fillings from rhubarb ginger, citrus peel, cinnamon and cloves. You can cook from it a great many light, bright and tasty salads. To do this, use both a raw rhubarb stalk, and stewed or canned. For example, a salad from this product, fragments of orange (peeled from white peel), grated carrots and herbs looks great and gorgeous. Rhubarb sauce is a good addition to meat, it has a pleasant acidity. In order to prepare meals from this product, you need to take not oxidized dishes - iron or brass will not work. Remember that by strongly digesting the petioles, you make it rough and tough. He needs a very short thermal treatment, in which the use of rhubarb only increases.