A Colorful Array of Fruits and Vegetables Can Help You Get Better Health

When you eat varieties or a rainbow of fruits and vegetables you have overall better health. Fruits and vegetables can provide you with nutrients, vitamins and minerals that your body needs each and every day to perform at its best. A diversity of fruits and vegetables provides color and variability to all of your meals.

Naturally occurring substances that cannot be obtained with any other substitute, such as vitamins or pills, are contained in fruits and vegetables and the best way for your body to absorb these is in the form of eating them.

There are an abundance of studies which have displayed that people that do eat varieties of fruits and vegetables in generous amounts are less likely to have chronic diseases such as diabetes type 2, heart disease, high blood pressure, certain types of cancer as well as reducing their risk for heart disease.

Numerous people will have certain fruits or vegetables that are their favorites or they enjoy more than others. There is a tendency to eat only these and disregard others and feel you are receiving everything that you need from fruits and vegetables. However, doctors recommend that a variety of the rainbow should be eaten. A variety of the rainbow means that you are eating a variety or all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Each fruit or vegetable has its own individual “super benefit”.

A super benefit of a fruit or vegetable is the one thing about that piece of fruit or veggie that makes it better than all of the others. For instance, lemons have more properties that will benefit digestion than oranges or other types of fruit. Therefore, you may say that lemons super benefit is the properties that it contains for helping your body digest better, get rid of harmful free radicals, assisting your liver with cleaning out wastes and the amounts of vitamin C that it contains. All of these different rewards combine to make lemons have a super benefit that cannot be found in any other fruit or vegetable.

Of course, every fruit or vegetable has its own properties that are specific only to that particular food stuff and there are some properties that are shared. However, eating a variety of fruits and vegetables is much more beneficial to receiving more overall advantages than simply eating the ones that you like best over and over again.

Better health can be realized when we eat all sorts, varieties and kinds of different fruits and vegetables because we receive all of their super benefits. Receiving all of their super benefits makes us feel better as well as look better. Transform your health through the power of smart choices and eat eat an assortment of colors.

Below are some smart choices in an array of colors. Starting with the most important…Green!

Green

  • Green apples
  • Artichokes
  • Asparagus
  • Avocados
  • Green beans
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Green cabbage
  • Cucumbers
  • Green grapes
  • Honeydew melon
  • Kiwi
  • Lettuce (except iceberg, which has next to zero nutritional value)
  • Limes
  • Green onions
  • Peas
  • Green pepper
  • Spinach
  • Zucchini

Red

  • Red apples
  • Beets
  • Red cabbage
  • Cherries
  • Cranberries
  • Pink grapefruit
  • Red grapes
  • Red peppers
  • Pomegranates
  • Red potatoes
  • Radishes
  • Raspberries
  • Rhubarb
  • Strawberries
  • Tomatoes
  • Watermelon

Orange/yellow

  • Yellow apples
  • Apricots
  • Butternut squash
  • Cantaloupe
  • Carrots
  • Grapefruit
  • Lemons
  • Mangoes
  • Nectarines
  • Oranges
  • Papayas
  • Peaches
  • Pears
  • Yellow peppers
  • Persimmons
  • Pineapple
  • Pumpkin
  • Rutabagas
  • Yellow summer or winter squash
  • Sweet corn
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Tangerines
  • Yellow tomatoes
  • Yellow watermelon

Purple/Blue

  • Blackberries
  • Blueberries
  • Eggplant
  • Figs
  • Juneberries
  • Plums
  • Prunes
  • Purple grapes
  • Raisins

White

  • Bananas
  • Cauliflower
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Jicama
  • Mushrooms
  • Onions
  • Parsnips
  • Potatoes
  • Turnips

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