Special Portion For Skin Care and Staying Young

The experts now find antioxidant foods have biggest anti aging ability. Antioxidant can be found in fruits and vegetables. That is why fruits and vegetables are called anti-aging medicine because its vitamin and minerals content do many numbers of works. At least to fight against free radicals that damage.
This free radicals are formed when O2 join with other molecules, produce high energy chemistry substances that seek something to join and cause damage that can’t returned back.
Vitamin (A, C, E) and antioxidant minerals (zinc, copper, manganese, selenium) in fruits and vegetables can stop free radicals attack. Carotenoid vitamin is effective antioxidant that contains of betacaroten (in carrot), lycopene, lutein and zeaxanthine.
According to the expert, we need to consume antioxidant regularly in a big amount. The method is: eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables everyday. Then what’s the meaning of 5 portions?

Five portions for your skin care and staying young

Portion is a terminology that used by nutritionist. The meaning isn’t always 1 piece or 1 slice. Portion here is determined by the fruit and vegetable kinds. For example: 1 apple is equivalent with 1 portion but 1 small pineapple is more than 1 portion.

One portion of fruit is equivalent with:
• 1 apple or orange or banana
• 1 big slice of melon or pineapple
• 2 small fruits (example: plum, kiwi, satsuma)
• 1 full cup of berry (raspberry, strawberry) or grape
• 2-3 tablespoon of fresh fruit salad, stewed or canned fruit
• 1 glass (150 ml) of fruit juice.

While 1 portion of vegetable is equivalent with:
• 1 full tablespoon of fresh vegetable, ripe that frozen
• 1 bowl of dessert full salad.

Vegetable and fruit are the best. Vegetable that frozen, canned and dried up is also good choice. Potato isn’t included as vegetable but is a good carbohydrate and fiber source if eaten with its shell.
If you can’t eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetable in a day, so try to eat as much as you can. Then the next article is about how you get those 5 portions.