Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Fruits and vegetables juice as source of antioxidant

Antioxidants are very helpful for your health because it protects body cells from breakdown of free radical. Free radicals can cause serious health issues, such as cancer, heart disease and many other

diseases etc. Antioxidants are very helpful because it can protect you from these diseases. Some of the antioxidants are lutein, selenium, vitamin C, beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E etc. The sources of these antioxidants are fruits, vegetable, grains, poultry, nuts, few fishes, meats etc.

Advantages of antioxidants

There are lots of fruits and vegetable those are enriched with high level vitamins, glutathionine, carotenoids, phenols, and flavonoids etc. Stidues have shown that antioxidants acts as free radical scavengers, quench singlet, triplet oxygen, decompose peroxide and also inhibits many beneficial enzymes. Antioxidants help in decreasing the free radicals that created through metabolism. Antioxidants also help human health through decreasing oxidative stress. It also prevents human body from biochemical and physiological injuries that can hamper your body through cell death.

Fruits and vegetable are good source of antioxidants

There are various fruits and vegetables which have good level of antioxidants measured in Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORACs). Studies have shown that prunes have the highest level of beneficial antioxidants. The next ORACs measured fruits and vegetable in descending order are garlic, kale, strawberry, spinach, and raspberry. The fruits and vegetables with ORACs between that ranges from 500 to 1000 are alfalfa sprouts, broccoli flowers, Brussels sprouts, oranges, plums, beets, red bell pepper, kiwi fruits, red grapes, cherries, and pink grapefruits etc. Whereas The fruits and vegetable with little antioxidants are onions, eggplant, white grapes, cauliflowers, potatoes, yellow com, peas, cabbage, sweet potatoes, leaf lettuce, carrot, string beans, iceberg lettuce, celery and cucumber etc.

Beverages are also a good source of antioxidants

Few studies have shown that beverages like green tea and black tea have more antioxidants than some of the vegetables. On the other hand fruit juices like grapes juice, orange juice, tomato juice, apple juice etc. have high level antioxidants that can prevent human body from serious diseases.

Many people get the highest benefit of these antioxidants by eating fruits and vegetable with high level antioxidants. If you have fruits and vegetable in proper amount, it will definitely help human body. Adults should have two and half cups of fruits and two to three cups vegetable on daily basis to enrich your body with beneficial antioxidants.



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