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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 6

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CABBAGE DIET. AN AID TO DIGESTION. (By the Health Department). Many women would be far freer from the ordinary common ailments if they would make greater -'use of chopped cabbage as an aid to health. This statement is made on the authority of a qualified nutritionist, who has some useful tips to give about the use of this easily-grown and readily available vegetable. Cabbage in this form may not have a universal appeal, but when carefully cooked, it has a value that few people are aware of. For instance, it may be taken advantageously as a midday meal when sugar-sweetened. Ordinary light dusting with white or brown sugar,' while it is hot, and immediately before it is eaten makes it a palatable meal. Again in the hot weather, when hot vegetables are not fancied, chopped cabbage can be eaten cold —cooked in advance and eaten with jellied meats and cold meats. It is not only palatable, but it aids in the digestion of the meats, and provides that extra energy we so frequently lack when the weather is warm. Then there’s chopped cabbage liberally buttered. Often it is found in cases of stomach and intestinal irritability, where fibrous foods are borne with difficulty, that small helpings of this form of cabbage are tolerated remarkably well, and prove a big help in cases of constipation if taken only once or at the most twice daily. The cabbage must be well chopped and well cooked, and only good butter should be used. Three parts of chopped cabbage to one of steamed spinach, or two of cabbage to one of spinach, make a palatable mixture with a laxative effect.