Fruit and Veg are a natural source of vitamins, iron and all the other healthy stuff that your body needs to remain properly functioning. In fact a lot of the time, you'll hear on the news about scientists who have found out about prevention of a certain illness, and it was in the form of a fruit or vegetable.
These foods are the healthiest and along with water (being the healthiest drink), it seems no coincidence that they're both natural.
Discerning which fruits and which vegetables hold what illness repellent, is another thing entirely.
When I was younger I was told that eating my carrots would help me to see in the dark, whether this is true or not I had no idea. I just ate them.
So thinking about this, I felt compelled to put together a list of the benefits of each individual fruit and veg.
This post will be focusing on fruit, and will be split into multiple posts. (Not sure how many at the moment, I'm guessing 4-5 for fruit, have no idea for vegetables.)
1. Apple
Contain vitamin C which helps boost your immune system (although compared to other fruit and veg, vitamin c levels a relatively low), and ripe apples contain nearly 80% water, with no fat whatsoever.
They contain flavonoids which can prevent coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and colon; prostrate and lung cancer.
Are a source of fibre and aid weight loss and an average apple will contain 70-100 calories.
2. Apricot
Contain 1.4g of protein and 3.4g when dried. Vitamin A (equivalent (almost doubled when dried); vitamin C (tiny amount when dried) , iron ( 7 times higher when dried).
Promotes good vision aiding as a defence against cataracts, and can help prevent heart disease. It can also help prevent constipation and diverticulosis (digestive condition).
3. Avocado
Contains vitamins C,B and E, also contains: zinc, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium.
Can help prevent oral cancer; prostrate cancer; and breast cancer, macular degeneration and cataracts, and strokes.
Nutrients can be absorbed better when eaten with avocado. It promotes heart health and lower cholesterol.
4. Banana
Contains vitamins A,B and C, as-well as choline, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
Helps to keep your heart and nervous system in good shape because of high potassium levels. It can help prevent kidney stones, large calcium loss, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stomach ulcers, colitis, Diarrhoea and constipation.
Banana skins are said to be helpful against warts. (Doesn't sound that appealing to me though...eating the skin that is.)
5. Bilberry
Can be used to treat urinary tract infection, kidney stones, diarrhoea, vericose veins and mucose membrane inflammation.
May also help night vision, helping the eye adjust to quick light changes.
It helps circulation, can relieve pain and itching, and can fight skin ulcers.
6. Blackberry
Contains vitamins A, C and K, also contains calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, potassium, sodium and, folic acid.
It can help strengthen our immune system (which can lower stress levels),and can help prevent things such as heart disease, certain cancers, and macular degeneration.
They are low in calories, carbohydrates and fat, and are a great thing to include in your diet. One cup full of blackberries can provide you with 50% of your daily advised vitamin C intake - impressive.
They can reduce inflammation and can help protect your skin against ultraviolet light, and it is now thought that they can help repair damaged skin from ultraviolet light. (Because of ellagic acid it contains).
7. Blackcurrant
Contains vitamins C and B, also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and zinc.
It can help in insulin production by up to 50%, and weight-for-weight has a higher amount of vitamin C than oranges.
Can help in treatment of urinary tract infection, diarrhoea, whooping cough, tonsillitis, and gum disease.
8. Blueberry
Contains vitamins A, B, C, E and K, also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
Is a great immune builder and can reduce ageing of the body. (Wont stop it though) :)
It can reduce belly fat, as-well as reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, urinary tract infections, macular degeneration, cataracts, myopia, hypermetropia, Alzheimer's disease (and can help in the curing up to a certain point), heart disease, constipation, and colon and liver cancer.
They are also great anti-depressants.
9. Cherimoya
Contains vitamins A, B, C and E, also contains manganese, potassium, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc.
It can help prevent cholesterol absorption in gut, colon cancer, malaria, helminthes, nervous irritability; tension and headaches.
It is high in vitamin C.
10. Cherry
Contains vitamin C as well as iron, potassium and magnesium.
Tart cherries (dried, frozen or in juice) have one of the highest disease-fighting antioxidants compared with other fruits. Can help ease the pain of arthritis, and can help prevent heart disease, certain cancers and diabetes.
Also help in the reduction of body weight.
11. Clementine
Contains vitamins B, C and E, also contains choline, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium sodium and zinc.
Can help in the prevention of heart disease, gall stones, energy insufficiency. They also have antioxidant properties.
12. Cucumber
Contains vitamins B and C, also contains calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, and zinc.
It is the best known natural diuretic, promotes urine flow. Can help prevent kidney and urinary bladder disease, liver disease, pancreatic disease, and pyorrhea.
It helps with: digesting protein, hair growth, high and low blood pressure, splitting nails (against it, not for it) and rheumatic conditions.
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