The vegetables become delicious 'unusual' in November

The surface of some vegetables becomes more attractive at the end of the year when the weather becomes cold.

Some vegetables are better when it's cold

November is the time when the weather starts to become cold, the time of the wilting, wilting for many types of trees. However, this is a favorite time for some vegetables, making them unusually delicious.

1. Vegetables

November is a great month for vegetables. According to O'Brady, the cold weather of November will help 'tame' the spicy characteristic of this food.

Brussels sprouts.

Specifically, cold weather will cause some carbohydrate molecules in vegetables to decompose into simple sugars, so vegetables at this time will taste sweet.

One of the most beneficial " vegetables " in this weather is Brussels sprouts . This is a cabbage-like vegetable, which contains very high levels of folic acid and vitamin K. These ingredients will help us replenish blood, while acting as an effective antioxidant, contributing to preventing cancer.

2. Carrots

November is also the season of tubers, especially carrots. In cold weather conditions, root rhizomes such as carrots, beets . will have a mechanism to help them survive, that is to convert starch into sugars.

Specifically, in places with extremely low temperatures, the ability to absorb water will be significantly reduced, so carrots will perform a mechanism to convert starch into sugars to store water inside the body.

Radish also becomes more sweet in this weather.

This mechanism is like mixing salt into snow to melt snow, because the salt water mixture has a lower freezing temperature. Similarly, the freezing temperature of sugar water is also lower, helping vegetables survive the winter. But this also inadvertently makes the taste of the carrot at this time much sweeter and tastier.

Although in Vietnam the winter temperature is not too cold, it is enough to cause a mild "mutation" in carrots.

3. Garlic

According to O'Brady culinary expert, leeks are essentially a rhizome plant, so they will also have a mechanism for carrots and radishes, which means a sweeter taste in November.

Garlic is a rich source of vitamin C, B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin K, and trace elements such as manganese, iron . In particular, Vitamin C is very important in wound healing and collagen synthesis. Maintain skin elasticity. Vitamin B6 has the function of helping the body use energy effectively.

Vitamin K in leeks helps enhance blood clotting as well as bone metabolism, and also helps prevent cancer.

4. Onions

This period is also the time when onions become the most 'full' of the year.

During this time, cold weather will make the soil not need to store much water to feed plants like hot season. Therefore, the onions will become sturdy, firm, each with more thick onions and lower water content.

In addition, onions also have quite the same mechanism as carrots and leeks, which is the ability to convert carbohydrates into sugar, so at this time they also taste quite sweet.

Onions are one of the foods that are not only delicious in processing but also a good medicine that can cure many diseases, especially the flu. In addition, onions contain a number of substances with strong antibacterial properties, which can kill dangerous infectious bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella - two types of intestinal bacteria.

* The article is based on the opinion of culinary expert Tara O'Brady, author of the book 'Seven Spoons: My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day'.