Description

Kale is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, with a wide range of benefits and extraordinarily little calories per serving. It is unknown when mankind started eating kale, but there’s evidence to show it has been a food staple of different regions around the world for thousands of years – spanning back to ancient Greece cultivating the vegetable in the fourth century B.C. 

Like collard greens, cauliflower, broccoli, beansprouts, cabbage, Kale is a cruciferous vegetable of the Brassicaceae, or mustard family. Taken from the Roman “brassica”, a word used for such kale like plants and other vegetables like turnips. This family of flowering plants is only mid-sized but play crucial parts in our ecosystem and economy.

As it is high in nutrition and low in calories, it is known as one of the world’s leading super foods. Kale has various benefits that span the entire body in many diverse ways. Abundant in vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes and minerals, it also brings fiber and protein to the table.

Kale is also known to be a food with great anti-inflammatory properties thanks to its high volumes of Vitamin K, and a single serving also contains about 10% of the daily required omega-3 fatty acids – also noted for being anti-inflammatory.

Benefits

1)     Skin and Hair

2)     Eye Health

3)     Bone Health

4)     Weight Control

5)     High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease caused by Cholesterol

6)     Diabetes

7)     Digestion

8)     Cancer