Why Eat Fruit?

Why are fruits needed in our daily consumption of food to maintain a health body?

Fruit offers natural health benefits like vitamin C, potassium, calcium, iron, folic acid to name a few. Fruit is low in sodium and has no fat content. Fruit helps in maintaining joint function, cardiovascular, urinary, vision, acts as a natural body cleanser, provides antioxidants that help combat free radicals and protect the circulatory system.

Fruit and there benefits: Apples – lungs
Bananas – energy
Blueberries – antioxidants
Pomegranates – cardiovascular
Strawberries – heart
Tart Cherries – joints
Amalaki – all of the above and more

We all know where apples, bananas, blueberries, pomegranates, strawberries, tart cherries come from but what about the amalaki? The amalaki fruit, according to ancient mid-eastern texts, has been around for 5000 years. It is picked from a small to medium sized tree in tropical southeastern Asia, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and the Mascarene Islands. Amalaki is said to be the richest natural source of the antioxidant vitamin C. Amalaki or Indian Gooseberry, as it is also known, has a bitter-sour taste and is very fibrous. This makes it hard to consume in its raw state but with a little salt and a lot of water you can eat a little piece.

In Ayurvedic medicine amalaki has the most rejuvenating food qualities in the plant kingdom and has a great quantity of healing properties. In ancient texts amalaki has been stated to be the best anti-aging medicine. Studies have been conducted on amalaki in both cancer and heart disease these studies are very encouraging.

If the fruit amalaki could be used in a nutritional drink and you could have all the health benefits of anti-ageing, help in preventing coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, antioxidants to control free radicals, lowering cholesterol, maintaining mental and memory function, help the body fight inflammation of the joints, aid in digestion, what could be better than that?

Fruit is the answer to having a happier healthier longer life.

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