04/07/2022
Eating the right food boosts your immunity — particularly plants that are intensely flavoured (herbs and spices) and/or intensely coloured. These plant foods are loaded with antioxidants and other immune-boosting micronutrients. 🛒🥬🍄🌶️🍏
The following is a shopping list to help you make better food choices and boost your immunity this Winter:
1. Eat Your Veggies - Eat the colours of the rainbow. Examples are green leafy vegetables of any kind (such as spinach, kale, and cos lettuce), red cabbage, red onions, peppers, beets, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and eggplant. Add legumes (beans, lentils, chickpeas and split peas) to your list too!
2. The Mighty Mushie - Mushrooms are a fungus rather than a vegetable, and eating them a few times a week will not only boosts your immunity but your mood too!
3. Let's Get Spicy - There are too many to mention here, but use them to add flavour to your meals. Turmeric, which is both intensely flavoured and intensely coloured, is the “king of health-promoting spices.” Did you know adding black pepper to turmeric increases the effectiveness by 1,000 times?
4. Fresh (not dried) Fruit - Again, intense colour is important: oranges, pink grapefruit, mangoes, papaya, watermelon, kiwi fruit, dark grapes, dark plums, and berries.
