Cabbage and Baby Spinach in the Promotion of Digestive Health

By Kyle J. Norton

Gastrointestinal diseases are the conditions of the digestive system associated with the disorders involving the gastrointestinal tract, including esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and rectum.

The digestive system includes gastrointestinal tract (GI), liver, pancreas, and gallbladder with a healthy function of breaking down food into nutrients and fluids for the body need.

There are many different types of gastrointestinal diseases, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's disease, celiac disease, and lactose intolerance.

Most common causes of gastrointestinal diseases are a bacterial or viral infection, inflammation, poor circulation of the intestines, muscle dysfunction, gallstones, stress, particularly long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs. However, gut microbiota, a community of microorganisms living in the gastrointestinal tract has been found to induce a significant effect on digestive health if imbalanced, including
*  Reducing the function of gut microbiota to absorb the dietary nutrients of the digestive system, in nutrient metabolism,

* Reducing the function of gut microbiota in the inhibition of xenobiotics and drug toxicity through facilitating the excretion, in xenobiotic, and drug metabolism,

* Reducing the structural integrity of the gut mucosal barrier, leading to the weakened the epithelial cells function to protect the intestine against invasive pathogens.

* Reducing the gut microbiota interaction with the immune system against inflammatory immune disorders and inhibition of the risk of gastrointestinal diseases and non-gastrointestinal diseases caused by overexpression of bad bacteria, in immunomodulation.

Conventional medicine used for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders is depending on the disease that triggers the disorder.such as antibiotics for bacterial infection, painkillers for stomach pain.

Cabbage is a species of Brassica oleracea belongings to the family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae), native to the Mediterranean region along the seacoast. The veggie has a short stem of which is crowded a mass of leaves, usually green but in some varieties, it may be red or purplish.

On finding a natural compound for the improvement of digestive function in the absorption of nutrients, researchers examined the effects of co-digestion of a carotenoid-rich vegetable such as carrot, cherry tomato or baby spinach with an anthocyanin-rich vegetable such as red cabbage
intestinal cellular bioaccessibility (cBAC).

According to the analysis of the chemical constituents, the tested vegetables processed the concentration of % cBAC of lutein was 0.23-1.42%, lycopene 0.07-0.39%, α-carotene 0.01-0.12% and β-carotene 0.03-0.61% respectively.

Furthermore, the co-digestion of the vegetables/salads resulted in synergy in cellular antioxidant activity compared to those without salad.

Moreover, cellular anti-inflammatory activity was also a significant increase in vegetable co-digestion compared to single vegetable alone.

Additionally, among the tested vegetables, baby spinach co-digested with red cabbage showed synergistic bioactivities in all tested assays.

In other words, co-administration of vegetables work synergistically to provide higher improvement of digestive function compared to single vegetable through their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.

Taken altogether, red cabbage may be considered a functional food for the promotion of digestive health, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Effects on intestinal cellular bioaccessibility of carotenoids and cellular biological activity as a consequence of co-ingestion of anthocyanin- and carotenoid-rich vegetables by Phan MAT1, Bucknall MP2, Arcot J. (PubMed)