5 food anti-age for the cold season

5 food anti-age for the cold season
We know it already, the food can be our first medicine. The invaluable nutrients contained in the fruit and vegetables of all seasons can help us with less aging… Here five elements easy to integrate into your menus of the weeks which come.

Grape: antioxydants against the age

The grape is traditionally offered to the patients. It has good arguments health indeed: full of water to hydrate, of fibers which encourage a good intestinal transit time, it has also many vitamins. Its virtues anti-age come above all from the antioxydants which it contains, to start with the anthocyanes, particularly present in the red grape.
How to eat it?
Expenses, the grape is a delight in dessert or to taste some. You can also use it in a clafoutis (prefer varieties whose grains are not too thick). Attention all the same, it is one of the most heating fruits.

Apples: usual but not banal

By see them on the stalls, we too often tend to see apples like second choices. However, these fruits are an incredible source of benefits. They are rich in vitamin C, but also in malic acid (some studies indicate that this ingredient makes it possible to fight against of the rheumatic affections).
How to eat it?
You know certainly tens of receipts comprising of apples. To change a little, consume it in salted dishes: in small pieces in a green salad, or with potatoes in mashed potatoes (the proportion should be a third of apples fruits for two thirds of potatoes).

Oranges

Here are still of the fruits which we have the practice to see and to consume. We all, or almost, that the oranges (as all citrus fruits) are rich in vitamin C. But do you know know that they are also a source of hesperidin? This antioxydant is particularly good for the health of the blood-vessels.
How to eat them?
Process a banal pound cake or cake with yoghourt in orange delight while making heat the juice of two oranges with sugar freezes during a few minutes. Then pour this syrup on the still hot cake; that will make it vitaminized marrowy, fruity and…!

The pumpkin

The secrecy of this large fruit is very badly hidden: in fact the carotenoids give him its beautiful orange color. These antioxydants are among most effective; the pumpkin and the pumpkin are particularly rich in beta-carotene, guard of the immune system and also precursor of vitamin has, very important for the hydration of the skin.
How to eat it?
You do not satisfy with soups! Try gratins, with cut potatoes of pieces and plugs, or sweetened tarts.

The beet

The beet and one of the antioxydant vegetables. Its beautiful red color is not only one danger to the end of the fingers which it colors without pity, but also an index of invaluable antioxydants that it contains. It is in particular one of the rare vegetables which offer the betacyanin to us: certain studies pointed a capacity to fight against cancer for this nutrient.
How to eat it?
The beet is commonly tasted out of salad. Mix it with goat’s milk cheese to make an original dip with aperitif.