Color-keys of a healthy food/Benefits to eat fruits and vegetables

Color-keys of a healthy food/Benefits to eat fruits and vegetables

A market in fruit and vegetables offers a feast to the eyes as with the body. All the colors – bright and sumptuous reds, vigorous green, the orange ones and sharp yellows, the blue ones and the purple deep ones – get a sensual pleasure and an abundance of nutrients. If these fruit and vegetables with the bright colors carried labels, it would be possible to read there just like on the bottles of vitamins and supplements arranged on the rays of a house of dietetics and natural foods: food fibers, vitamins, minerals with profusion, and antioxydants. Since the fruit and vegetables do not carry labels, these are the colors which reveal some their nutritional rewards.

The phytochimiques ones, chemical substances found in the fruits and the vegetables, are like the brushes of nature giving to food derived from the plants – and the fruits – their colors and part of their nutritive punch. The betacarotene, lutein and lycopene, for example, are the phytochimic known ones like antioxydants. The antioxydants decrease the cancer risks by helping our body to neutralize the free radicals – composed which damage our cells. In order to collect the benefits of this healthy food harvest, decipher the code of the colors of the fruit and vegetables.