2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
A wonderful combination of strong taste and crunchy texture, cambi are the Christmas ornaments in the vegetable world with their smooth and beautiful appearance, colored in green, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown or black. Although available year-round, they are best eaten in August and September.
Regardless of their color variety, all sweet peppers are known as Capsicum annuum and are part of the Dog Grape family, which includes potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants.
Like its hot peppers, common peppers originate in South America, where their seeds date back to 5000 BC. As they are a highly adaptable plant capable of growing in different climatic conditions, their cultivation and use in different kitchens is rapidly becoming popular. Today, the main producers of sweet peppers are China, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Nigeria and Mexico.
The bells are rounded, bell-shaped vegetables, divided into 3 or four sections. In their thick fleshy part there are edible but bitter seeds and a white porous central part. The sweets cambi they are not spicy because they contain a recessive gene that eliminates capsaicin, the compound responsible for the spiciness of other peppers.
Composition of the cambs
The combs contain vitamin A, C, B1, B2, E, PP, carotene and cellulose. Cambs are low in fat and rich in water.
Selection and storage of cams
• Choose cambiwhich have bright colors and taut skin, without the presence of spots or darkening.
• Their handles should be green and look fresh.
• The cambs must be heavy in size and firm enough.
• Their shape does not affect their quality, choose them according to what you will use them for.
• Kambi are most delicious in summer.
• Unwashed cambi will be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week.
• If you freeze them, it is better to freeze them whole so as not to disturb their nutrient content and taste.
Cooking cambi
• Add finely chopped cambi to chicken or tuna salad.
• Lightly blanch the peppers and fill them with your favorite rice salad and bake them in the oven.
• Mash the roasted and peeled ones cambi, add onions and zucchini and make a wonderful refreshing soup that can be eaten hot or cold.
Kambi are widely used in the preparation of various pickles for the winter. When fresh, they are used in salads and various meat and vegetable dishes. The marinated cambi are extremely tasty.
Benefits of cambs
• They provide us with color protection from free radicals. Brightly colored cambiWhether green, red or yellow, they are a rich source of some of the best nutrients. They are concentrated in vitamin C and vitamin A, which together act to neutralize free radicals that damage our cells.
• Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Cambs contain vitamin B6 and folic acid, which are very effective in reducing high levels of homocysteine, which causes damage to blood vessels, which is associated with a greatly increased risk of heart attack or heart attack.
• Reduce the risk of cancer. The reds cambi are one of the few foods containing lycopene, the intake of which is associated with a reduction in the risk of cancer of the prostate, cervix, bladder and pancreas.
• Contribute to the health of our lungs. If you or someone you love is a smoker, taking foods rich in vitamin A (such as the cambs), as part of a healthy diet, can save your life. Benzopyrine in cigarette smoke leads to vitamin A deficiency, but a diet enriched with this vitamin can help combat this effect, thus reducing the risk of emphysema.
• Protect our vision. Due to the presence of vitamin C and beta carotene, our cambs protect against cataracts.
• Protect against rheumatoid arthritis. Foods rich in vitamin C, such as sweet and hot peppers, give us protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, which is a form of rheumatoid arthritis and involves one or more joints.
