Daikon is a common vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked, and its taste is slightly spicy. Modern research believes that white radish contains mustard oil, amylase, and crude fiber, which can promote digestion, enhance appetite, speed up gastrointestinal motility, relieve cough and reduce phlegm.
White radish is a kind of radish, which is the fresh root of radish of the cruciferous family radish. There are many varieties of radish, including white, red, and green, but white radish is the most common.
Radish one- or two-year-old herb. Root fleshy, oblong, spherical, or conical, root bark green, white, pink, or purple. Stems erect, stout, cylindrical, hollow, branched from base. Basal leaves and lower stem leaves have long stalks, usually large head pinnately split, shaggy, lateral lobes 1 to 3 pairs, edge serrated or notched; stem middle and upper leaves oblong to lanceolate, gradually becoming smaller upward, Indehiscent or slightly divided, not clasping. Racemes, terminal and axillary. Flowers are pale pink or white. Silique, not dehiscent, nearly conical, straight or slightly curved, constricted between seeds into bead-like, apex with a long beak, beak 2.5-5 cm long, fruit wall spongy. Seeds 1 to 6, reddish-brown, round, with fine reticulation. Originating in my country, it is cultivated all over the country, and there are many varieties, such as carrots (turned radishes), green radishes, white radishes, water radishes, and Xinmei. The roots are edible and are one of the main vegetables in my country. The seeds contain 42% oil and can be used to make soap or lubricating oil. Seeds, fresh roots, and leaves can be used as medicine, and the function of qi eliminates accumulation. Raw radish contains amylase, which can help digestion.
Nutritional Analysis
1. Enhance the immune function of the body:
Radish is rich in vitamin C and traces the element zinc, which helps to enhance the body's immune function and improve disease resistance;
2. Helps digestion:
The mustard oil in radish can promote gastrointestinal motility, increase appetite, and help digestion;
3. Helps the absorption of nutrients:
The amylase in radish can decompose starch and fat in food and make it fully absorbed;
4. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer:
Radish contains lignin, which can increase the vitality of macrophages and phagocytose cancer cells. In addition, a variety of enzymes contained in radish can decompose carcinogenic nitrosamines and have anti-cancer effects.
