Is the nutritional value of celery stalk higher than celery leaves? Celery is a common vegetable with abundant nutritional value, but people usually only eat its stalks, while the fresh green leaves are often discarded. Here is a recipe for Celery Salad for everyone to try.
【Name】
Celery Salad
【Ingredients】
Celery, Carrot, Black fungus, Sesame oil, Vinegar, Salt, Garlic, Soy sauce.
【Instructions】
1. Soak the black fungus, shred the carrot, and shred the celery.
2. Blanch the black fungus in boiling water.
3. Blanch the celery and carrot in boiling water.
4. Put the blanched ingredients in a bowl, add minced garlic, vinegar, cooking wine, and mix well.
5. Season with sesame oil and adjust the amount of salt according to personal taste.
Celery leaves are edible and even more nutritious than the stalks!
【Is the nutritional value of celery stalk higher than celery leaves?】
Are celery leaves really devoid of nutrition and deserving to be discarded compared to celery stalks? The answer is definitely no, in fact, celery leaves are even higher in nutrition than celery stalks!
Research experiments have found that celery leaves contain more than 10 different nutrients in amounts far exceeding those in celery stalks. For example, the content of vitamin C in celery leaves is 13 times higher than in celery stalks, the content of vitamin B1 is 17 times higher, and the protein content is 11 times higher.
The most shocking fact is that the carotene content in celery leaves is 88 times higher than in celery stalks!
In addition, celery leaves contain vitamin E, which is not found in celery stalks.
