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Health Endive stimulates our appetite and digestion
Salad is popular as a side dish or as a main course. Most salads are delicious and healthy. If you like something a bit bitter, you should fall back on endive. This leafy vegetable is suitable for a variety of dishes. And it is very healthy.
Healthy and tasty: endive. Image: ExQuisine - Fotolia Bitter than other salads
Although endive leaves usually taste a bit more bitter than, for example, lettuce, the delicious leafy vegetables offer plenty of minerals. The contained bitter substance lactucopyrin is also healthy. In addition, the endive contains an extraordinary amount of beta-carotene for a salad, informed the consumer information service aid. Beta-carotene is especially important for the skin and eyes. Furthermore, the pale green leaves contain abundant potassium, calcium, iron, phosphates and folic acid as well as vitamins of the B group and precursors of vitamin A..
The very special in the endive is however the bitter substance Lactucopikrin. This substance is also available in chicory, but today's varieties are less bitter. The substance helps to stimulate digestion. In addition, it stimulates the appetite, which is why endive is ideal as an appetizer. In addition, the bitter substance is slightly diuretic.
Endive not only in the salad
If you do not like it bitterly, it is best to lay the leaves briefly in lukewarm water or to add a pinch of sugar to the dressing. Often endive is eaten in the salad. But there are many more ways to make delicious dishes from the delicious leafy vegetables. This way, endive can also be prepared as spinach and then goes well with meat, fish or seafood. In addition, the leaves taste in a soup, in a stew or risotto. Recipes for dishes with endive, such as a delicious endive soup, can also be found on the Internet. (Ad)