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Gathering and cabbage storage
Cabbage from all garden cultures clean in last turn as it is capable to transfer autumn frosts. For a prolonged storage select only strong, not damaged mechanically or pests heads of cabbage. Clean cabbage so: incline a head of cabbage aside and cut off it together with external several leaves. At the gathered cabbage leave a cabbage stump in length in 2-3 see Store cabbage in a cool room, suspending it for cabbage stumps on walls or putting it on regiments. At cabbage storage on a floor it put pyramid on 5-7 heads of cabbage. Optimum temperature for cabbage storage – from-1 to +1 degrees, and humidity – 92-98 %.
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Vitamins
Vegetables represent the special value as alimentary and medicinal products in connection with the high maintenance to them of vitamins. As vitamins are called low-molecular organic matters, various on a chemical constitution. Remarkable feature of these materials is that their quantity necessary for an organism, is insignificant a little, but presence of these remains necessarily. Such simple name of these materials – vitamins – actually masks the terrible fact bound to them: absence of vitamins in nutrition invokes heavy diseases, for example a scurvy, takes-take, a rickets, pellagra and other which come to an end with mors of the patient. From here "vitamin" that В«life amineВ» (amines – the phylum of organic matters) means.
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Vegetables
Vegetables began to define the further development of an alimentary system. They compensated a meat lack: thanks to the low caloricity they were consumed by our ancestors in considerable quantities without excess of rational energy value, creating feeling of appetite and satiety. Also vegetables have not driven out some meat of a diet of the person completely, but opposite, promoted the best mastering of meat and other food natural products. The feeling of satiety has allowed our ancestors not to ferment all time in search of food, and a food by meat stimulated development of a brain which has occupied hours of full leisure ancient with useful occupations.
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