💚🌱Dear friends of vitamins.🌱💚☀️ Yesterday I asked (in the picture the pomegranate) ...

... why antioxidants are good for you and your health. 🌞
There are incredibly many good answers from you to it! Thank you for your support. ♥️
To bring it again briefly to the point: Antioxidants are actually little helpers in your body that protects cells from free radicals. These free radicals are unfortunately everywhere (in the air we breathe, the water we drink, etc) so antioxidants are important. (very simplified explanation)
_____________________________More importantly, how do we get them? Most of all through our diet. I would like to introduce you to a few of the foods.
There are specially designed charts for this. The unit of measurement is called ORAC. The ORAC value for this is how many antioxidants are in the diet per 100g of food.
Today I present you the spices, fruits and vegan protein sources with the most ORAC. In the parenthesis I write you the ORAC units. _________________________
Spices: Cloves (314,446), Ceylon cinnamon (267,536), oregano (200,129), turmeric (159,277), cocoa (80,933), cumin (76,800), dried parsley (74,349), sage (32,004).
Fruits: acai berry (102,700), goji berry (25,300), cranberry (9,584), dried apple (6,681)
vegan protein sources: Kidney bean (8,459), black bean (8,040), lentil (7,282), soybean (5,764)
Of course, antioxidants are also found in other fruits and spices, but they are most abundant in these foods when measured in density (ORAC). In this regard, it is worthwhile to incorporate these spices, protein sources and fruits into your diet. Tomorrow in part 3 comes the continuation in vegetables, drinks, nuts and why matcha is the superfood par excellence. 💚