food

7 great foods

APPLES
With an astonishing 150 supernutrients packed into each aplle you eat, this easy to transport, easy to eat, no waste fruit is specially good for quercetin, an antioxcidant that appears from laboratory research to help to kill off viruses such as herpes, which causes cold sores.
Quercetin sits just under the skin so never peel your apples before eating.

GREEN TEA
Swap a couple of cups of your builder’s brew a day for green tea. Especially rich in polyphenols, green tea antioxcidants have antibacterial and anti antithrombotic roles, and regulate the immune system.
The lazy man’s solution to boosting antioxidants, which may also help to fight tooth decay.

TOMATOES
This vegetable is packed with the red pigment lycopene, the main antioxcidant in the prostate gland.
Studies reveal that men eating tomatoes 10 or more times a wek have a 35 per cent reduced risk of developing prostate cancer.

CHILLIES
These sure to raise your metabolism : the hotter you can stand, the more their effect. Expect a 15 per cent increase in calories burnt for about two hours after eating a hot chilli sauce.

OATS
Have them in muesli or porridge, Oatibix or oatmeal. Full of the soluble fibre called beta glucan, which lowers “bad” cholesterol, they also give us silica, a trace mineral believed to be vital for good – quality skin, metrosexual or otherwise.

PRUNES
Blend them with milk and yoghurt to make antioxcidant-rich, free-radical-zapping drink also gives ferulic acid, a supernutrient associated with bowel health.
The special sugar prunes will also help to keep you regular and potentially help to resist bowel cancer.

OILY FISH
Fling fresh sardines under the grill, or have them fron a can : either way, like mackerel, salmon and anchovies, they are great for omega-3 oils, which seem to make platelets in the blood less likely to clump together and cause a clot. – The Times.