Antioxidants present in Food and Fruits

We are pretty much familiar with antioxidant, as a great source of making your body healthier and save your internal body from free radicals, but do you actually want to know the scientific phenomena behind this? So let us tell you further.

Our body is consist of free radicals or say oxygen molecules that our cell produces, these are million in count as our body’s each cell produces ten thousands of them every day. An oxygen molecule or say free radicals contain odd number of electron in its outer cell, that creates a pairing and while indiscriminately opting each of them, hence, causing a biological damage inside of our body. And then, the need of anti- oxidant comes under stance to stabilise and neutralise these free radicals. However there are other factors also exist which creates the free radical situation, and causes biological damage. These factors are pollution, radiation, excessive smoking which majorly cause free radical in our body.

Therefore, there is a big need to stabilize the indiscrimination among free radicals, in order to prevent our body from many illnesses that occurs from free radical. So let us go through further and explain which antioxidant are naturally found in foods to reduce free radicals -

Vitamin E: can be found in green vegetable, nuts, unsaturated oils, cereals, almonds, sunflower seeds, sunflower oil, hazelnuts, peanuts, spinach, broccoli, kiwi, and mango. Vitamin E not only protects essential fatty acid, which is omega 3 fatty acid, which helps in the bonding of tissues, but also helps in the metabolism of cells.

Vitamin C: can be found in cabbage, green peppers, broccoli, spinach, tomato, kale, guava, cantaloupe, kiwi, papaya, and strawberries. It is water soluble vitamin that helps in maintaining bones and in the absorption of iron.

Beta-carotene: is very essential to reduce the risk of heart related problems and also many deadly diseases like cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease, fibromyalgia, male infertility, and psoriasis can be cured with the help of Beta-carotene. It is basically found in liver, egg yolk, milk, butter, spinach, carrots, squash, broccoli, yams, tomato, cantaloupe, peaches, and grains.

Selenium: the requirement of selenium in our body is minimal but it still helps in maintain a good tissue structure and formation along with it also synthesize antibodies which protects our body from many diseases. Selenium can be found in nuts, wheat germ, molasses, and sunflower seeds.