Nettle is undoubtedly a plant with a very high nutritional value It owes its exceptional nutritional value to its abundance of minerals, vitamins, and amino acids that it has. To understand the size of the nutritional value it is enough to mention that it contains vitamins C, E, A, K as well as the vitamins of the complex B. iron, copper, zinc, magnesium, selenium, phosphorus, lycopene, β – carotene and a variety of other minerals and nutrients. It is worth mentioning that it is perhaps the only plant – food that contains all these nutrients together.
For all that we mentioned above, nettle is an ally of our health since three cups of nettle decoction daily shields both our immune system and the whole body. More specifically, and especially for us women who lose a sufficient amount of iron due to the menstrual cycle we have every month, nettle can help us because it has anti-wind properties precisely because of its high content of iron and folic acid.