Healthy food Garden cress with many healthy vitamins

Healthy culinary herb: Cress is full of vitamins
On the bread, in the quark or as an ingredient for delicious sauces: garden cress offers itself for numerous meals. The delicious herb not only provides a mild spiciness, but also valuable nutrients.

Many healthy nutrients
Garden and wild herbs refine some food. Cress is especially popular in many German households. Nasturtiums are used in the kitchen, for example for sauces and dips, watercress and, above all, garden cress. Cress not only provides a mild spiciness, but also many healthy nutrients.

Garden cress is full of vitamins and minerals. It tastes great in herb quark or on bread. Cress can also be grown easily. (Image: Rangzen / fotolia.com)

Supply of vitamins
According to the herb table of the consumer information service aid, garden cress works "blood purifying, appetizing, digestive, diuretic".

The green stalks contain vitamins like vitamin C as well as minerals like calcium, potassium and iron. According to the consumer information service, cress brings variety to the table, especially in winter, and ensures the supply of vitamins.

On the bread or in the herb quark
Cress should be enjoyed fresh. It tastes delicious in herbal quarks or with butter - or pure - on the bread. The herb is also well suited as a pretty garnish. The spicy and spicy taste is reminiscent of radish or mustard.

The focus is on mustard oil glycosides, chemical compounds that have an antimicrobial effect and are found mainly in horseradish and cabbage. Among other things, they should help against respiratory and urinary tract infections.

Grow cress yourself
You can buy garden cress all year round in the supermarket, but the herb can also be easily pulled yourself. If you want to grow it yourself, it is best to use a shallow dish that is laid out with damp gauze. Then the seeds are evenly distributed and repeatedly splashed with water, so they do not dry out. (Ad)