About the Health Benefits of Mango

Mangoes are sweet fruits and everyone loves to eat. However, many people have forgotten that Mangoes have so many health benefits. Below are the health benefits of Mangoes.


Health Benefits

Mangoes Prevents Cancer:
Research has shown antioxidant compounds in mango fruit have been found to protect against colon, breast, leukemia and prostate cancers.


Boosts of the Immune System:
The high amound of Vitamin A and Vitamin C deposited in mango makes it possible for you to be strong and your immune system healthy, when consumed.

Clearing of skin
It is interesting to know that mango also clears our skins, both within and outside. Within for inside our body and outside for our physical body

Lowers Cholesterol:
In Mango, there is Pectin, vitamin C and a very large amount of fiber; these components help to lower serum cholesterol levels.

Improves Vision's Health
Do you also know that just a cup of sliced mango gives 25% of the daily required Vitamin A that enhances good eyesight and prevents dry eyes?

Alkalizes the Whole Body:
The tartaric acid, malic acid, and a trace of citric acid available in the fruit help to maintain the alkali reserve of the body.


May Help with Diabetes:
Mango leaves help regulate the insulin levels in the blood. The traditional home remedy involves boiling leaves in water, soaking through the night and then consuming the filtered decoction in the morning.

Helps Fight Heat Stroke:
We are in the rainy season, whixh is ogten accompanied with excessive heat. But, juicing the fruit from green mango and mixing with water and a sweetener can cool down the body and prevent harm from overheating.

So, these and lots more are the health benefits of Mango. I am sure you will look at the mango differently henceforth.

Potatoes

Potatoes as popularly known are starchy, tuberous crop that comes from the perennial Solanum tuberosum. Potatoes grow in almost any condition but prefers a cooler atmosphere. Numerous types of potatoes exist which are in thousands and can be found all around the world.

NUTRITION FACTS

Present in potato are vitamins and minerals, and also assortment of phytochemicals, such as carotenoids and natural phenols. An unpeeled potato provides of vitamin C, potassium, vitamin B6 and trace amounts of thiamin, riboflavin, folate, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and zinc. The fiber content of a potato with skin (2 g) is equivalent to that of many whole grain breads, pastas, and cereals. Talking of nutritional value, the potato is best known for its carbohydrate content. The predominant form of this carbohydrate is starch.

HEALTH BENEFIT

Potatoes provide the body with an essential source of fuel and energy, which you need even when dieting. As a rich carbohydrate source, they help to fuel all reactions in the body which you need for movement, thinking, digestion and cellular renewal.

As stated, there are numerous health benefits of Potato. I will be listing and discussing them briefly.

Gut health: Just one baked potato will provide about 12% will give you the recommended quantity of fibre, daily, as well as pastas, breads and cereals.
Consuming foods reach in Fibre protects you from colon cancer.

Weight Gain: Potatoes interestingly have a little deposit of proteins. Making it a perfe meal for those who want to put on weight.

Digestion:  Potatoes also aid digestion. It is most especially rexommended for those who cannot swallow hard food and they still want another means of getting energy. But kindly note that excessive potatoes consumption cause's acidity to the body. Eater's discretion is advised. ;)

High Blood Pressure: Potatoes have a high level vitamin-C and B which prevents high blood pressure. It should be noted, however, patients who suffer from diabetes should avoid it.

Nutritional Values of Oranges

The rainy season brings so much euphoria to Nigerians that love this nutritious fruit and the fruit itself bears so much oranges this season. But have you ever wondered the nutritional values of Oranges aside the popular vitamin C we know it has? There are  nutrients in oranges. To begin with, oranges are low in calories, they contain no saturated fats or cholesterol, likewise, they are rich in dietary fiber, pectin. Pectin, as a bulk laxative, helps protect the mucous membrane of colon by decreasing its exposure time to toxic substances as well as by binding to cancer-causing chemicals in the colon. Furthermore. Pectin also reduces blood cholesterol levels by reducing its re-absorption in the colon by binding to bile acids in the colon.

Oranges as said earlier, are good source of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a powerful natural antioxidant. When you take meals that are rich in vitamin C, resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals from the blood are developed.

This fruit also has a high amount of vitamin A, and other flavonoid antioxidants such as alpha and beta-carotenes, beta-cryptoxanthin, zea-xanthin and lutein. These compounds have been known to have antioxidant properties. Vitamin A is needed for maintaining healthy mucus membranes, skin and important for healthy vision. When you consume natural fruits rich in flavonoids, it help human body protect from lung and oral cavity cancers.

Furthermore, Orange is a good source of Vitamin B-complex vitamins such as thiamin, pyridoxine, and folates. These vitamins are essential because the human body requires them to replenish.

Present in orange fruit in form of minerals are calcium and potassium. Potassium is an essential component of cell and body fluids because it helps control heart rate and blood pressure through countering pressing effects of sodium.

It is proven scientifically that citrus fruits especially oranges by virtue of their abundance in vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals can serve us in lots of ways. Eventhough the non-nutrient compounds in the citrus fruits such as phyto-chemical antioxidants, soluble and insoluble dietary fiber helps in eliminating cancer risk, diseases like arthritis, obesity, and coronary heart diseases.