It follows straight from the definition that any adapted increasing (integrable) process is a submartingale. This means that $Z_n \leq Z_{n+1}$ and $\mathbb{E}Z_n<\infty$ implies indeed that $(Z_n,\mathcal{F}_n)_{n \geq 0}$ is a submartingale.
It follows straight from the definition that any adapted increasing (integrable) process is a submartingale. This means that $Z_n \leq Z_{n+1}$ and $\mathbb{E}Z_n<\infty$ implies indeed that $(Z_n,\mathcal{F}_n)_{n \geq 0}$ is a submartingale.