Cabbage, Cucumber and Tomato Salad - Fresh Vitamin Salad

Ever since early childhood, and I don't know why, as soon as summer came and fresh vegetables arrived straight from the garden, my favorite meal was new potatoes with sour cream, dill and garlic, plus a big bowl of vegetable salad. A salad of cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes and fresh herbs.

Salad is almost the most important thing. I'll agree, there is nothing in a salad like this that makes it special. Maybe. But experience shows that the vast majority of people simply chop the vegetables, salt them and, at best, dress them with vegetable oil. At worst, as most do, they pour a thick layer of mayonnaise over it and enjoy… the taste of mayonnaise. But then, there's no accounting for taste…

Fresh vegetables are something people lacked for centuries. Travelers, sailors, polar explorers and many others often suffered from a lack of vitamins, to the point of scurvy, a dangerous disease. As early as the 8th century people realized that scurvy was caused by diet. Knowing nothing about vitamins, they understood that if you eat lemons (an excellent source of vitamins), scurvy doesn't happen. And only at the beginning of the last century was a compound from the amine group first isolated and named “Vitamine,” from the Latin vita, “life.” Although the most important vitamin, C, is not an amine, but that's not the point. The point is that without a dozen and a half of these substances a healthy life is impossible. Unlike plants and animals, the human body does not produce vitamins itself, so a vitamin-rich diet is extremely important for us.

A vegetable salad with cabbage, especially with young vegetables added, is an unbeatable source of vitamins.

Before running to the pharmacy for chemical vitamins, go to the market and buy fresh vegetables, just picked from the garden. Come home and make a salad in which, I assure you, the vitamins are positively swarming!