Love your colors

{HEART} your colors!!

More than just vitamins and minerals in those fruits and veggies.  We want those phytochemicals that come from plants...along with the hundreds of other substances that are beneficial to our human bods.  All those disease preventers come in nice little packages.

That white family of goodies (cauliflower, mushrooms, white beans, onions, garlic, parsnips, shallots, turnips, ginger, bananas, pears) have a ton of good chemicals in them, DNA defenders and stuff that breaks down cancer-causing compounds.

Some of the most powerful antioxidant foods are in the purple/red family.  Berries, especially blueberries are the bomb!!!  Tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, tomato juice,
tomato soup, red peppers, red onions, beets, red cabbage, kidney beans, apples, pink grapefruit, red grapes, strawberries, cherries, watermelon, raspberries, cranberries,
pomegranates, eggplant, purple grapes, plums, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, purple
figs, dried plums, black currents are all good too!!

The yellow/orange family is rich in vitamin C and contains carotenes and flavanoids, another group of antioxidants which help our immune systems.  They help improve communication between cells as well as doing many of the same functions as other antioxidants.  Some good ones:  Carrots, summer squash, corn, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, pumpkin, yellow peppers, rutabagas, cantaloupe, grapefruit, lemons,
nectarines, oranges, peaches, pineapples, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, papayas.

There are lots of green vegetables!  The dark green leafy vegetables are rich in lutein, among other phytochemicals.  Leafy greens, asparagus, green peppers, broccoli, green beans, peas, cabbage, green onion, brussels sprouts, okra, zucchini, Chinese cabbage, green apples, green grapes, honeydew melon, kiwifruit, limes are some good greens.

 

A great website is http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/

So eat your colors. Reap the benefits.

Love the one you're with!!  X