Benefits Of Kiwifruit - Believable?
It's almost like it came out of nowhere, and then suddenly it's selling everywhere, people are talking about it and nutrition authors are writing about all these benefits of kiwifruit and and nick naming the new "superfood". Too good to be true€¦ maybe not.
Again and again, we see studies showing amazing facts about the benefits of kiwifruit, a little fruit most of us never even heard about growing up. Here are some substantiated facts:
Most nutrient-dense fruit - Unlike other fruits, the kiwifruit is loaded with the widest variety of nutrients, covering many vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and energy.
Vitamin C - has almost twice as much vitamin C as 2 oranges of equal weight. Arguable the most important vitamin because it helps our bodies in so many ways such as strengthening our immune system, antioxidant which fights the dangerous oxidization process that can lead to pre-mature wrinkles and old age blindness. Helps blood to circulate. Eye health, lessens risk of cataracs, which is blurry vision.
Heart health - eating 2 or 3 kiwifruits everyday improves heart health by thinning your blood, reduces clotting, and lowers the amount of fats in your blood.
Kiwifruit can lower blood triglycerides, which is fat in the blood that makes it's flow more difficult and very unhealthy for your heart. Having high levels of triglycerides can increase your chances of heart disease.
Cancer Fighter - It has been shown that kiwifruit can protect us from dangerous amounts of oxidization which can damage our DNA, which can lead to cancer. Also it's high levels of antioxidants can stimulate the repair of DNA cells and even as much as double the repair rate speed.
Constipation - Health care professions from several European countries prescribe kiwifruit to patients suffering from constipation, saying that when consumed regularly, the results were more frequent bowel movements which produced a bulkier and softer stool.
Prebiotic food source - To be a true prebiotic, a food has to have dietary fiber, enzymes, and phenolic compounds, all plentiful in the kiwifruit. It has been proven that a diet rich in prebiotics can leessen the risk of many of our common digestive and bowel disorders: type-2 diabetes, obesity, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, constipation, and inflammatory bowel diseases to name a few.
New chosen food source for prebiotic supplements
The prebiotic supplements that are still around from the last several years only focus on dietary fiber as the prebiotic source. Fiber is very important but research has shown that fiber is not the only nutrient required for a food to be a full-fledged prebiotic.
The kiwifruit has dietary fibers, enzymes and phenolic compounds making it a more nutrient-dense source than simply fiber. Remember that if you go searching for a prebiotic supplement to get all the benefits the kiwifruit has to offer, which by the way, many of it's nutrients are in the skin, so unless you eat organic kiwi, a supplement may be a better idea.
Again and again, we see studies showing amazing facts about the benefits of kiwifruit, a little fruit most of us never even heard about growing up. Here are some substantiated facts:
Most nutrient-dense fruit - Unlike other fruits, the kiwifruit is loaded with the widest variety of nutrients, covering many vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and energy.
Vitamin C - has almost twice as much vitamin C as 2 oranges of equal weight. Arguable the most important vitamin because it helps our bodies in so many ways such as strengthening our immune system, antioxidant which fights the dangerous oxidization process that can lead to pre-mature wrinkles and old age blindness. Helps blood to circulate. Eye health, lessens risk of cataracs, which is blurry vision.
Heart health - eating 2 or 3 kiwifruits everyday improves heart health by thinning your blood, reduces clotting, and lowers the amount of fats in your blood.
Kiwifruit can lower blood triglycerides, which is fat in the blood that makes it's flow more difficult and very unhealthy for your heart. Having high levels of triglycerides can increase your chances of heart disease.
Cancer Fighter - It has been shown that kiwifruit can protect us from dangerous amounts of oxidization which can damage our DNA, which can lead to cancer. Also it's high levels of antioxidants can stimulate the repair of DNA cells and even as much as double the repair rate speed.
Constipation - Health care professions from several European countries prescribe kiwifruit to patients suffering from constipation, saying that when consumed regularly, the results were more frequent bowel movements which produced a bulkier and softer stool.
Prebiotic food source - To be a true prebiotic, a food has to have dietary fiber, enzymes, and phenolic compounds, all plentiful in the kiwifruit. It has been proven that a diet rich in prebiotics can leessen the risk of many of our common digestive and bowel disorders: type-2 diabetes, obesity, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, constipation, and inflammatory bowel diseases to name a few.
New chosen food source for prebiotic supplements
The prebiotic supplements that are still around from the last several years only focus on dietary fiber as the prebiotic source. Fiber is very important but research has shown that fiber is not the only nutrient required for a food to be a full-fledged prebiotic.
The kiwifruit has dietary fibers, enzymes and phenolic compounds making it a more nutrient-dense source than simply fiber. Remember that if you go searching for a prebiotic supplement to get all the benefits the kiwifruit has to offer, which by the way, many of it's nutrients are in the skin, so unless you eat organic kiwi, a supplement may be a better idea.
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