A Closer Look at Our Cabbage



Our Red and Green Cabbage in our field in May



Green Cabbage

A head of Green Cabbage before Harvest

Red Cabbage

Red Cabbage ready for Harvest

Rows of Green Cabbage

Want to Stay Healthy? Eat Cabbage!

Health Benefits of Cabbage :

1.Cabbage contain phytonutrients, works to protect the body from free radicals that can damage the cell membranes. Phytonutrients also signal our genes to increase its production of enzymes involved in detoxification.
2.Cabbage may lower the incidence of cancer, especially in the lung, stomach and colon prostate.
3.Cabbage is a muscle builder, blood cleanser and eye strengthener.
4.The juice of fresh raw cabbage has been proven to heal stomach ulcer.
5.Cabbage is rich in iron and sulfur.
6.Juice of fresh cabbage is effective in treating fungus infection (due to it sulfur content).
7.Cabbage can lower serum cholesterol.
8.Cabbage contain Sulforaphane, a substance that can increase the production of antioxidant and detoxification enzymes. Sulforaphane works by stimulating the production of glutathione, the body's most important internally produced antioxidant which plays a role in liver detoxification.
9.Red Cabbage has more phytonutrients than the green cabbage. The vitamin C content of red cabbage is 6-8 times higher than that of the green cabbage.
10.Red cabbage contain anthocyanin (red pigment/color) is an antioxidant that can help protect brain cells, thus can help prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Spring Cabbage!

Excellent quality green and red cabbage now shipping from Bakersfield, CA. We have Regular 24 count, Jumbo 18 count and XJumbo 12 count supplies.

Announcing that we will start shipping Red Seedless, Regular Seeded and Yellow Flesh Watermelons out of Coachella, CA on May 9th.

Call for details!

Pictures from the Field

Jeff's Growing Update

Watermelon Buyers: Our Red Seedless Watermelons, Regular Seeded and Yellow Flesh Watermelons are doing very well in our fields in Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles. The warm days and warm nights really produce rapid growth; at times, I have measured the melons growing 2 inches in a 24 hour period. Our Harvest Contractor indicates with normal weather we should be harvesting the earliest melons the first week of May. Right now the Watermelons are the size of a Softball (see pics) We have an Organic Watermelon field this year in the Imperial Valley we will harvest a few weeks later than our early Coachella fields. Keep in Touch, Jeff Thomson Watermelon Category Mgr.

Top 10 Fruits With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck

Jennifer Langston jokes that her 2-year-old eats fruit like a bat, so that helped propel her to come up with nifty calculations on which fruits bring the most nutritional bang for your buck.

If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the choices that offer the best combination of those factors, says Langston, a researcher, editor and writer at Sightline Institute, a nonprofit sustainability think tank, who developed the rankings with her co-worker Eric Hess.

Here are their rankings of the best, cheapest fruits to get your vitamins from:

1.Watermelon
2.Plums
3.Oranges
4.Apples
5.Strawberries
6.Cantaloupe
7.Grapefruit
8.Bananas
9.Kiwi
10.Peaches

So if you want to spend only so much money on fruit, go with watermelon, plums, oranges and apples to get the most nutrition for relatively little dough.

Everyone knows berries are great sources of vitamins, but they rank low on this chart because they're pricey. This chart emphasizes both low cost and nutrition.

Here's how Langston and Hess came up with these rankings: They tracked down the price-per-cup of various fruits, as revealed in a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They also got the nutritional scores for various fruits, as determined by the ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) rating method used by the Whole Foods chain and others. They then divided each fruit's ANDI score by its price per cup.

Bottom line: It's not enough to just buy the cheapest fruit; try buying the cheapest fruit offering the best nutrition for the price.

How cheap a food is alone is not always the best measure of value, Langston tells Consumer Ally. You may very well prefer to buy an apple (ranked No. 4) grown in the neighboring countryside instead of a banana (No. 8) shipped from afar. "Cheap food," Langston says, "is probably one of the problems of the food system."

reference:
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/03/07/top-10-fruits-with-the-most-nutrition-for-your-buck/?a_dgi=aolshare_email