16/08/2021
Red foods 🍅🍓🍒🌶🍇🍉🍎
The bright pigment in red foods helps prevent cell damage
🍅Benefits 🍅
-Protects the brain, heart, liver and immune system.
-Helps protect against free radical damage (which is one reason they have anti cancer benefits)
-Feeds you gut bacteria
-Helps to reduce the risk for some cancers
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Foods to include:
🍒Bell peppers, radishes, red beetroot, apples, blood oranges, radicchio, cranberries, grapes, plums, red onions, cherries, red potatoes, pomegranate, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, watermelon, beans: adzuki, kidney), red cabbage, tomatoes….
Active compounds:
🍅Lycopene - the phytonutrient that may protect against some cancers (prostate, breast and skin) as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks. It’s the red colour found in tomatoes, tomato paste and tomato soup, watermelon, pink grapefruit and guava.
🍓Anthocyanins - helps reduce cancer risk and protects the heart and brain. Found in red berries (strawberries, raspberries, cherries and cranberries), apples (with the skins), beetroots, cabbage, onion, kidney beans and red beans.
🍉Others include: carotenoids, quercetin, ellagic acid, flavones & fisetin
How to eat more red foods:
🌶Eat more colourful salads, add things like tomatoes, berries, pomegranate seeds, grapefruit /blood orange segments.
🌶Try a salsa: lots of tomato, red onion and chilli
🌶Add a spoonful of tomato puree to cooked dishes
🌶Use red (marinara type sauce) rather than white sauces
🌶Add the red fruits to breakfast
…………………………………….………Bon appetit………….…………..………
