Description and detailed chemical composition of the turnip. Who can and can not use it. What tasty can you cook with it and how to do it. All the most curious about turnips. Important! Peeled and, even more so, crushed turnip quickly drains and turns black, as a result of which it loses most of its nutrients. That is why you need to cook it 1-2 times maximum, not keeping it in the refrigerator for a long time.
Interesting facts about turnips
Turnips are much healthier than their "competitor", potatoes, since they do not contain starch at all. The Turnips variety is widely used as livestock feed.
It is also interesting that the British and Irish until the 20th century on Halloween made glowing heads not from pumpkins, but from turnips. One Russian folk tale is even dedicated to this vegetable, which children love very much.
Surprisingly, 1 kg contains more than 1 million seeds, since they are very small. Because of this, in ancient times, when sowing, they were chewed and spat out, and not scattered by hand. It is very popular in Great Britain and Germany, where it is readily consumed with meat.
Until 1300, the inhabitants of Kievan Rus had a ritual of getting rid of evil spirits with the help of turnips. They saw him off in the evening before All Saints Day. To do this, one largest head was cleaned, almost all the pulp was removed from it, in place of which a candle was inserted. Such a "flashlight" was left on the windowsill for several days, during which all the evil spirits left the house.
It is very important that turnips can be stored outside the refrigerator for more than six months. Therefore, it is convenient to buy it in advance in large quantities and leave it in the basement or on the balcony.
Outwardly, without the green part, it is very similar to its counterpart, the white radish. Therefore, customers often confuse them in the store and in the market.
An interesting tradition existed in Russia: girls, refusing to marry, gave their fans any dish with turnips. Nowadays, every year in Switzerland, the city of Richterswil, there is a parade in honor of this vegetable. At this time, the streets are decorated with lanterns from it and numerous candles, they dance and sing. To organize this large-scale event, at least 10 tons of root crops are involved. In 1999, it even got into the Guinness Book of Records, then the amount of used turnip reached 25 tons.
How to cook turnips - watch the video:
There are surprisingly many options for how to cook this vegetable deliciously, but in whatever form it is served, the benefits of turnips will always be huge for the body. It contains much fewer calories and much more vitamins, micro- and macroelements necessary for a person than in the same potato, which unfairly pressed it on the shelves.
