Carrots are useless to eat without sour cream or butter. ..
Meat is defective without vegetables. ..
All of us have heard such phrases many times. How true are they and what other combinations of products are particularly useful?
Every vegetable that gets to the table, and then into the body, carries a lot of usefulness. Some products perfectly "work" by themselves, giving out the body the necessary vitamins and a set of trace elements. But there are products of "greedy", which share their useful properties only if they are used in conjunction with a product-companion.
Such products include carrots. Included in its composition beta-carotene is well absorbed only in the presence of fats. That is, the carrot is especially useful in the form of a salad dressed with sour cream or vegetable oil. And here are a few lesser known, but very useful combinations.
Tomatoes and olive oil
European nutritionists have found out what it is better to serve tomatoes - with sunflower or olive oil. During the study, volunteers had to consume tomato salad, flavored with appropriate fat.
Two months passed and it was found that olive oil significantly improves the rejuvenating and regenerating properties of lycopene, a substance rich in tomatoes. But with sunflower oil, tomatoes do not give out a "standing set" of antioxidant properties. Therefore, it is worth using tomatoes in a "kit" with olive oil. This guarantees the body health, youth and getting a rich mass of vitamins.
Pine nuts with chicken and vegetables
This type of arrangement is recommended by dieticians often to those who need to improve and strengthen hair and nails. Pine nuts contain a large amount of zinc. This microelement strengthens claws and activates the properties of hair growth. However, in order to better assimilate zinc in the body, it needs animal proteins with a small fraction of fat content - the same ones with which the chickens are famous.
Pine nuts are rich not only in zinc, but also in unsaturated fatty acids. They significantly improve the absorption of minerals and vitamins in pairs with any vegetables. Therefore, season with cedar gifts vegetable salads - a healthy idea for the body.
Oatmeal with berries
Many people do not like oatmeal, which is very in vain! This porridge contains phenols, and in fresh berries there is a lot of vitamin C. With this combination, these benefits double the ability to protect the body from the formation of blood clots and plaques. And the cardiovascular system will be in good shape.
By the way, sweet berries allow not to add sugar to the porridge, which favorably affects the refined figure.