Benefits of blue foods
Posted on: 13/Mar/2015 9:40:35 AM
Blue is a color of loyalty, wisdom, confidence, faith, truth, heaven, and intelligence! This stands as the fifth color of Navarathiri. What does the color have to relate itself with health and nutritional benefits? Let’s check out the benefits of meals in blue color:
What do they contain?
Various studies carried out on these blue colored meals say that they have gained the color due to high content of phytochemicals that boost richness in them. These phytochemicals are also called as anthocyanins and resveratrol.
What are the health benefits of blue colored items?
Anthocyanins – These are anti-inflammatory in nature and carry anti-carcinogenic properties. This helps lower the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Resveratrol – This is an anti-oxidant which prevents aging and contains properties that prevent incidence of diseases. It has all goodness of upkeep of your health and reduces the level of bad cholesterol in body. It also prevents Alzheimer`s and cancer too. On the whole, foods that are blue in color are helpful in boosting overall health by preventing incidence of diseases and increases the life expectancy. These are also excellent memory boosters.
Blueberries, blackberries, figs, plums, purple cabbage, etc are some of the best blue foods.
