Fresh, green and leafy cabbages are now showing up on grocery store produce isles and will soon take their honored place in backyard Fall gardens. As a member of the Brassicaceae family, cabbages are loaded with Vitamin C, low in carbohydrate, and a good source of dietary fiber. In European folk medicine, cabbage was used to treat acute inflammation and the raw cabbage juice has been show effective in treating peptic ulcers.