Health professionals recommend making fruits part of our daily routine. Aside from their low calorie and low fat content, these fruits provide vitamins, minerals, fiber, and complex carbohydrates. In addition, they help you reduce your body fat. Another important reason for loading up on fruits is that they naturally contain cancer-fighting phytochemicals.
There are thousands of different phytochemicals and they are found only fruits and vegetables. These unique microsubstances help fight and prevent diseases like colds, flu and even cancer formation. Others even help shrink tumors and malignancies. For example, the P-Coumaric and Chlorogenic Acid found in pineapple work inside the digestive tract, preventing the formation of cancer-causing substances called nitrosamines. Nitrosamines (from nitric oxide and amines) are carcinogens that are routinely manufactured by the body during digestion. What these phytochemicals in pineapple do is bond with the nitric acid and whisk it out, preventing it's chemical union with the amines. In doing so, these phytochemicals stop the cancer before it can even begin.
Advanced as modern science is today, it still cannot isolate, process, and add phytochemicals to artificial foods. That's why experts recommend eating a variety of natural fruits and vegetables. You can eat them fresh. Frozen, or canned; chopped, squeezed or pureed/juices. Choose a variety such as pineapples, apples, strawberries, and bananas; spinach, carrots, green beans, garlic, and legumes. This way you will be getting not just vitamins and minerals but a wide range of disease-fighting phytochemicals as well.
