PURPLE UP YOUR HEALTH!

You know by now that our health depends on healthy diet with specific nutrients. Now research shows that colors of plant food play a key role - especially purple. Read on to learn more about.       

THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND

As you know from our publications and beyond, your health depends on 2 basic pillars: healthy food and physical exercise. When talking about food, it’s certainly nutritious components like vitamins and minerals, etc.
 
Not only. Since all fruits and vegetables are colored, this feature is of physiological and psychological relevance as well. With respect to one color specifically: purple. According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

BENEFITS OF PURPLE FOOD – SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED

The specific benefit of purple-colored fruits and vegetables comes from its content of antioxidants (anthocyanins), i.e. plant pigments creating naturally blue and red colors in specific plants. With the capability of preventing and also repairing the damage of certain cells in our body.
 
In medical terms, this may help our body, inter alia, to avoid heart disease, fight cancer and, containing also antioxidants such as polyphenols, they may also cut down neurological conditions, including stress.
 
Let us briefly focus now on a sample of those purple-colored fruits and vegetables in favor of our health:

Fruits
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• Blueberries

 Rich in polyphenols like phenolic acids and flavonoids, blueberries may
- alleviate inflammation
- boost our mood  

• Blackberries

 Rounded up with their contents of vitamins A/C/K and fiber, they may
- reduce inflammation           
   &
- support mental capability
 

• Purple grapes

 They may help to
- fight cancer
- support cardiovascular/arterial health &
- cut cholesterol
     

• Concord grape juice

 May be well effective for
- spatial memory/memory function/reaction time
   &
- enhance calmness
 

• Blackcurrants

 As they have high content of anthocyanins, they may
- balance cholesterol level
   &
- support vision
 

• Acai berries

 As research says, this purple-colored fruit may well support
- cognitive capacity
- cholesterol balancing
   &
- heart health
 

• Plums

 Their antioxidants

• reduce inflammation
• support bone health
• improve digestion
• lower blood pressure
• cut down blood sugar

• Figs

 They may
- prevent cancer         
  and support
- respiration
- digestion
- weight loss
- decrease of inflammation
- reproductive health  

Vegetables

Similar benefits for our health we find in purple-colored vegetables like…
 
* Eggplants  

​Based on their rich content of phytochemicals and antioxidants such as, inter alia, flavonoids, ascorbic acid and phenolics, they may improve respiratory problems like
​- asthma
   &
- bronchitis
   as well as
- prevent liver damage
 

• Purple corn

 This may well help to
- avoid certain cancers
   &
- diabetes
    as well as
- cut down inflammation
   &
- body weight
   and also
- support vision
 

• Beetroots

 They may well
- prevent cancer
- lower blood pressure
- support heart health
- cut down inflammation
- improve digestion
- support gut health
 

• Purple potatoes

 To cut down risk of
- colon cancer
   &
- inflammation
 

• Purple sweet potatoes

 Their health benefit of
- strengthening our immunity
   and
- cutting down inflammation
omes from their high anthocyanin power.
 

• Purple carrots

 With special reference to their high amount of phytonutrients like anthocyanins as well as of alpha and beta anthocyanin, they also
- strengthen immunity
   &
- support our vision
    

• Red cabbage

 Also this purple-colored vegetable may
- fight cancer
   &
- cardiovascular disease  

Based on international research at, inter alia…

- Pennsylvania State University in State Park, PA
- University of Western States in Portland, OR
- Institute for Functional Medicine in Federal Way, WA
- Cyprus University of Technology in Lemesos, Cyprus
- University of Naples Federico II in Portici, Italy
- University of Thessaly in Magnisia, Greece
- Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Canakkale, Turkey
- University of Guelph in Guelph, Canada
   As well as
- Luliu Hatiegano University of Medicine and Pharmacy  
   &
- University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
   (both in Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

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