Eat a Rainbow to Stay Healthy

The first question that pops to mind is what does 'Eat-a-rainbow' refer to? It simply means that you should eat different colored fruits and vegetables.
By eating different fruits and vegetables you get different essential nutrients and vitamins that helps you to fight diseases and stay healthy. Given below is few of the benefits of each colored fruits and vegetables and why you should use them in your daily diet.

1. White and Brown: onion, ginger, mushrooms, jicama, bananas etc are very few of the long list that you can include in this color. The reason why these foods have white and brown color is presence of Anthoxanthins and health promoting chemicals like allicin. These activate natural killer B and T cells reduces chance of heart diseases, cancer, hormonal imbalance and maintain cholesterol level.

2. Blue and Purple: eggplant, purple cabbage, blueberries, purple grapes and many more are colored blue or purple. These are famous for antioxidants that make you look beautiful. Nutrients and anti-oxidants helps to repair cells, stay healthy, detox the body, lower blood pressure and keeps the digestive system healthy.

3. Green: Green leafy vegetables are ever popular for their health reasons. It contains nutrients such as chlorophyll, fiber, lutein, calcium, folate, vitamin C, calcium, and many more! Fruits and vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, honeydew, green apples, grapes, lime, and other leafy vegetables keeps your bones and teeth strong, boost immune function, prevent osteoporosis and have many other health benefits.

4. Orange and Yellow: Carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins etc comes under this category. Having these in your diet helps you and your heart to stay healthy, strengthen immune system and lowers chance of getting cancer.

5. Red: Red food contains plant pigments called lycopene and anthocyanins that help to fight cancer, prevent cell damage and makes you healthy. You can find these essential nutrients in red apples, beets, tomatoes, red peppers, red onion and in many other foods.

You can have fruits; make smoothie and juices in breakfast. You can use sliced fruits and vegetables in snacks or you can use green salad, fruit and vegetable sandwich, wraps, soups etc for dinner. The choices with these natural nutrients (Read: Best Natural Nutrients in Daily Diet) are endless and creative, depending on what you like.