Fruits and glowing skin

How your Diet effect your skin ?

Eating natural food such as fruit is really beneficial for your skin wellness. 

To maintain healthy skin isn't hard at all. All you've got to do is keep your diet clean. You do not need to go to aesthetic treatment or use special chemicals to make your skin appear healthy and glowing.
All the ingredient are available naturally on the earth. Wether you grow it your self or buy, these fruits are much more delicious and cheaper than chemical or needle treatment. 

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In this article, I will share with you 11 fruits that work miracles for your skin as it detoxes and keeps your skin nourished.

1. Lemon
Lemon rich with vitamin c, antioxidants that can help to flush out toxins and protect the skin from photo damage such as uneven pigmentation, dark spot and acne scars. You can consume it as a beverage ingredient, or mixed in your everyday meals. 

2. Papaya
Papaya contains vitamin A, C, B, Pantothenic acid, folate and mineral such as potassium, copper, and magnesium. They also contain enzymes like papain and chymopapain that help to prevent skin damage by free radicals and have antibacterial, anti fungal, and antiviral properties. Consuming papaya can help prevent constipation, which is one of the causes of poor skin health. It can also help treat warts, eczema, corns, and cutaneous tubercles. Scientists have also found that papaya can help heal wounds and chronic skin ulcers.
Top Papaya producing country are Indonesia, India, and Brazil. 

Taste:
Ripen papaya taste sweet and soft. It can be added in a yoghurt, fruit salad, juice or cocktail drink. Young papaya are often used for cooking stew or curry. Unripe papaya is also high in papain, which is used to tenderize meat. Some cultures use its leaves in traditional medicine as a cure for malaria, although this use is not supported scientifically.

3. Avocado
Consuming avocado can promote healthy ageing as it rich in lutein and zeaxanthin that protect your skin from UV radiation beside the fat in avocado can retain the skin elasticity and reduce inflammation. 

Avocado is rich of vitamin E, A, C, K, B6, also the other nutrition such as niacin, folate, pantothenic acid.

4. Orange 
Like lemons, oranges are rich in vitamin C. 100 grams of oranges contain 54 milligrams of vitamin C, which is an antioxidant. Oranges can help prevent oxidative damage, photodamage, DNA damage, reduce inflammation, and aid collagen synthesis.

5. Water melon
With its red, juicy and sweet taste, anyone can easily enjoy this fruit. Watermelon has dietary fiber (0.4%), water (92%), carbs (7.55%), sugar (0.4%), vitamins C, A, B1, and B6, carotenoids, flavonoids, and lycopene. It has zero fat and is cholesterol-free. Lycopene helps in scavenging the free oxygen radicals and prevents skin damage. The water helps flush out toxins and improves bowel movement.

6. Cucumber
Cucumber has antioxidant properties. Unpeeled cucumbers are also rich in vitamins K and C and dietary fiber. Scientists have found that cucumbers can be used for reducing wrinkles. Cucumber are often used as meal condiments such as pickles or salad.

7. Mango
Mangoes are rich in vitamins A, E, C, and K, flavonoids, polyphenolics, beta-carotene, and xanthophylls. They help protect your skin from DNA damage and inflammation. Besides its delicious taste, these are the common summary of mango :
  • Rich in protective antioxidants. Mangos are a good source of protective antioxidants, plant chemicals that include gallotannins and mangiferin 
  • May aid digestion
  • May help maintain healthy skin & hair
  • May support heart health 
  • May support eye health.
8. Pomegranate
Pomegranates are rich in vitamins C, K, folate, and minerals like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium. In fact, the peel, the membrane, and the edible seeds of the fruit are loaded with antioxidants (ellagic acid) that help protect the skin from UV-A and UV-B damage and skin pigmentation.
 
9. Kiwi 
Kiwi fruit is originated from New Zealand. These days the fruit is grown commercially in other countries such as Italy, California, France, Greece, Chile, China, Japan, South Korea. Kiwis contain a good amount of vitamin C and help protect the skin from the free oxygen radicals that cause DNA damage. Kiwis also promote collagen synthesis and help prevent wrinkles.

10. Strawberries
Strawberries are a great source of vitamin C and alpha-hydroxy acid (also known as salicylic acid).
Strawberries also contain ellagic acid that protects the skin from UV radiation and prevents collagen destruction and wrinkle formation.

11. Grapes
Grapes, red or green, are loaded with resveratrol, an antioxidant. Researchers have found that resveratrol helps protect the skin from UV damage and skin cancer. Grapes are also a rich source of vitamins C, K, and folate, and minerals such as calcium, potassium, and phosphorus. Grape seed extract has skin-rejuvenating, -protecting, and -healing properties.


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Arie Hughes
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