Sabtu, 28 Januari 2012

Consumption of Fruits for Health


Consumption of Fruits for Health - Fruit is one food menus that support our health. Consumption of fruit is known by many as a complement to comply with a healthy diet because the fruit has nutrients and nutrients the body needs. The fruit is very beneficial for the body and is an integral part so that we can always be healthy and fit. The fruit is also used as mandatory menus for your meals daily. Therefore, we need to know what are the benefits of the fruit ? And content of what is contained in the fruit for the health of our bodies ?

Some of the main content of the fruit is water, vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and carbohydrates. The following will discuss what is contained in the fruit that bring benefits to our bodies:


So if we consume less water 2 liters in a day, this water needs can still be met by consuming fruit.

Most fruits contain beneficial vitamins such as vitamins C and E. While minerals are present in fruits such as calcium, zinc and manganese. Vitamins and minerals are substances that help the cells in the body's metabolism working. Minerla cause vitamin deficiency and metabolism did not go well so that it can disrupt the body's health or freshness.


The body needs the fiber because the fiber is useful in the process of digestion. With the fiber then the process of absorption of sugars and bad fats in the gastrointestinal tract may be inhibited.


Are substances that counteract the free radicals that enter the body. Free radicals are substances contained in the pollution, excessive activity, cigarette smoke and vehicle.

When free radicals met with cholesterol in the body to eat will form ulcers in the body that can damage endothelial cells in blood vessels. As a result, be easily attached to cholesterol in the blood vessels.


Carbohydrates are used as a source of energy so the body can perform the activity. Although not many, but the fruit has a complex carbohydrate composed of glucose and fructose, where the incoming fructose does not require insulin to process it so as not to burden the pancreas, which when damaged can lead to diabetes. It is very different when we consume sugar.

In order to obtain maximum results, it is recommended that eating 10 servings of fruit with 10 different color every day. Types of fruits in different colors such as: bananas, pineapples, mangoes, apples, oranges, sapodilla, duku. One serving of whole fruit, not just pieces such as salad. Generally, fruits of different colors contain different substances that can complement each other to meet the substances needed by the body.

In selecting the fruit should be selected that shiny color. Fruit with bright colors or shiny contains more phytachemicals which means more antioxidants, more vitamins and minerals than fruit whose skin is dull.

Suggested Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) or the UN food organization, the fruit is consumed 65.75 kg per capita per year in order to stay healthy. So, do not forget to add fruit in your diet today.

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