Cabbage Blog

The word "cabbage" comes from the ancient Greek "kaputum" (head), which emphasizes the peculiar shape of this vegetable. Well, what - a certain similarity, you see, there is.
Cabbage juice in folk medicine is used as an antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory agent.

Sauerkraut is healthier than fresh cabbage. Useful qualities of sauerkraut last about 10 months, so you can eat it almost the whole year.

The ancient Greeks and Romans grew no more than a dozen varieties of cabbage. In the nineteenth century there were already about thirty of them, and now there are more than a hundred.

Methods for growing cabbage are described in detail in Domostroy, a literary monument of Russia in the 16th century. Our ancestors were sure that it was necessary to plant cabbage seedlings on May 18, on the day of Arina the nursery.

Archaeological excavations indicate that people began to grow cabbage since the Stone and Bronze Ages.

Cabbage has beneficial properties that help fight excess weight.

Theatrical skits did not just get their name. There is a version that this was the name of the gatherings of theatrical actors after the winter season ended. As a rule, Great Lent was going on at this time, when the church was not allowed to eat quick meals. Therefore, the main decoration of the table was a lean cabbage pie.

Until now, a wild-growing relative of garden cabbage has not been established, as well as the place where garden cabbage was grown for the first time.

The stalk is the most harmful part of the cabbage, because it is in it that a variety of nitrates accumulate.

The place of origin of cabbage is still unknown. Most likely, this vegetable appeared somewhere in Asia, but scientists cannot say for sure yet.