If you are eating mostly green and brown, it is time to break out a new meal plan paintbrush to get the mouth watering taste and healthy power of phytonutrients. Phytonutrients are the natural nutrients found in plants such as lycopene from tomatoes for red color, resveratrol from grapes and lutein from spinach leaves with its green color.
Colorful fruits and vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and teas provide a wide range of Vitamins, Minerals and are a rich source of Phytonutrients. Variety is equally important as quantity of fruits and vegetables. Variety gives us choice of more colors in our diet which signifies the range of natural nutrients in that fruit or vegetable. The range of color can give you all the phytonutrients you need to maintain healthy lifestyle.
Eating different colored fruits and vegetables is the key to healthy diet. Color your diet with red, yellow and orange, green, blue and purple and white. Red color means have water melon, Accerola cherry, apple, tomato, cherries etc for healthy prostate health and DNA health.
Choose yellow and orange color vegetables and fruits such as oranges, carrots, papaya, lemon, corn etc for your vision health, healthy immune function, good skin and healthy growth and development.
Green color vegetables or fruits such as spinach, lady finger, sprouts, cabbage, grapes etc for cell and lung health. Blue and purple color which is available in Brinjal, plums, black grapes, raisins etc supports heart health and arterial function. White color in banana, turnips, garlic, onions, and mushrooms etc aids for maintains healthy bones and circulatory health.
