Alex P. On Collards VS Kale.
Cooked Collard greens have 30 times more lutein-zeaxanthin essential for good vision than do Carrots. (They are Carotenoids for the human eye macula)...and Collards have 20% more protein per calorie than does cooked broccoli.
Collard Greens also have 3% more protein per calorie than cooked lentils...11% more protein than cooked kale and higher protein quality than: lentils, kale or milk. The amino acid score is 94 versus 91 for kale, 86 for lentils, 85 for milk. Collard is also 3 times better digested by the human system than is Calcium and Collards have many more nutrients than does broccoli. (See the top vegan sources of Calcium at Https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/W5iRpgBk3iS,
Collard greens are easy to steam and unlike other cruciferous vegetables, have far fewer goitrogens which are compounds mostly destroyed during cooking and which interfere with the thyroid when eaten raw in large amounts - too much of any food is bad!
Because of these things, I have started eating a lot more collard greens with the aid of the pressure cooker ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/HcNA6yU4UDS. Not to mention, steamed/cooked broccoli has 47% more carbs than steamed/cooked collard greens per 100 grams - which is not ideal for glucose control ► check your glucose 1 hour after meals with https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexP/posts/5ocD2zDyUkW. Steamed/cooked kale has 14% more carbs than collard greens, but less than broccoli, so I gave up eating kale - since collards have more easily absorbed Calcium and 11% higher quality protein. The Amino Acid score is (94 versus 91).
Dear Alex P.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! I will be chewing on Collard Greens in the near future.
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