Healthiest fruit, vegetable, and GNLD antioxidant choices

Which fruits and vegetables would you choose from these mouth-watering displays?

lovely selection of fruits

fresh, colourful, health-giving vegetables

Fruits and vegetables provide us with mixed fibre (essential for intestinal health and regularity), vitamins, minerals, carotenoids (antioxidants protecting the oily parts inside us), flavonoids (antioxidants protecting our watery parts), and a host of other disease-fighting nutrients.

But they don’t all contain similar amounts of health-giving compounds.

I’m sure you’ll agree, if you’re going to be eating fruits and vegetables, you might as well choose the ones that are going to give you maximum health benefits.

Here’s a handy list to help you make the healthiest choices…

Fruits rich in carotenoids, flavonoids, and other phytonutrients

Apricots

Blackberries

Blueberries

Cherries

Cranberries

Fruit salad – tinned

Grapes – dark red, and black ones

Grapefruit – pink ones

Guavas

Mangoes

Nectarines

Nartjies

Oranges

Papayas

Passion fruits

Peaches

Plums

Prunes

Raspberries

Strawberries

Tangerines

Watermelons

Fruits not so rich in carotenoids, flavonoids, or other phytonutrients

These fruits aren’t bad for you. They provide fibre, vitamins, and minerals, too. It’s just that they’re not bursting with antioxidants like the fruits in the list above.

Apples

Bananas

Currants

Dates

Figs

Gooseberries

Grapes – white ones

Grapefruit – yellow ones

Honeydew melons

Kiwi fruits

Lemons

Pears

Pineapples

Raisins

Rhubarb

Vegetables rich in carotenoids, flavonoids, and other phytonutrients

Asparagus – green tips

Beans – green ones

Beetroot

Broccoli

Brussels sprouts

Cabbage – dark green, red, and bok choy

Carrots

Cauliflower

Corn – yellow

Green leaves from calabrese (sprouting broccoli), collard, dandelion, horseradish, kale, lettuce (red-leaved, and dark-green leaved), mustard, turnip

Mixed frozen vegetables

Parsley

Peas

Peppers – hot ones, red ones, and yellow ones

Pumpkin

Radish

Red onions

Squash – all yellow, and all orange types

Spinach

Sweet potatoes – red, and orange

Tomatoes

Watercress

Vegetables not so rich in carotenoids, flavonoids, or other phytonutrients

Of course, these vegetables aren’t bad for you. They provide fibre, vitamins, and minerals, too. It’s just that they’re not bursting with protective antioxidants like the vegetables in the list above.

Artichokes

Avocados

Beans – pale-coloured, and bean-sprouts

Cabbages – white, or savoy

Celery

Corn – white

Cucumbers, and zucchini

Lettuce – iceberg

Mushrooms

Olives

Peppers – green

Potatoes – white

White onions

GNLD phytonutrient supplements from whole foods

If you’re not keen on fruits and vegetables, or tend to chose the ones not so rich in health-giving phytonutrients, don’t worry. You can bridge the gaps in your nutrition by taking GNLD phytonutrient supplements every day.

Here’s a brief description of each nutritional product, covering the three main phytonutrient groups.

For more detailed info about the supplements, and how to get them, please visit our Healthy Business GNLD products blog.

GNLD Carotenoid Complex

World’s most powerful complex of carotenoids (fat-soluble antioxidants), derived entirely from whole-food from the human food chain. One bottle of 90 capsules is guaranteed to contain 15 powerful carotenoid family members, equivalent to eating 115 kg of the component raw fruits and vegetables. Just imagine munching your way through all that!

Proven by the USDA, and various Universities, to boost the disease-fighting cells of the immune system.

The protective, immune-boosting carotenoids are: alpha-carotene; beta-carotene; cis-beta-carotene; gamma-carotene; zeta-carotene; lycopene; cis-lycopene; lutein; zeaxanthin; alpha-cryptoxanthin; beta-cryptoxanthin; violaxanthin; canthaxanthin; capsanthin, and cryptocapsin.

And they’re derived from real foods:

Carrot

Red Bell Pepper

Tomato

Spinach

Apricot

Strawberry

Peach

Natural Vitamin E Complex (containing all eight family members)

Lecithin from soy beans (as emulsifier)

Pure Olive Oil (enhances absorption of fat-soluble carotenoids)

GNLD Flavonoid Complex

Flavonoids protect the watery parts of our bodies, in a similar way the carotenoids protect the oily parts.

GNLD Flavonoid Complex is guaranteed to contain the following water-soluble antioxidant flavonoid groups: ellagic acid; flavones; flavanols; flavanones; anthocyanins, and catechins as they occur in the human food-chain. They’re derived from real, whole food:

Cranberry

Kale

Green Tea

Beet

Mixed Berries

Red Grapes

Black Grapes

Orange

Lemon

Grapefruit

Natural Vitamin C (to enhance absorption)

GNLD Cruciferous Plus

This is a great supplement for those who don’t like the ’smelly’ vegetables, like broccoli. Guaranteed to contain health-promoting isothiocyanates and indoles derived from:

Broccoli

Radish

Kale

Black Mustard and Brown Mustard

Watercress

With added terpenes from orange, chalcones from liquorice root, and isoflavones from soya milk.

GNLD supplements are…

Based in Nature, backed by Science. That means you get only the parts Mother Nature put in fruits and vegetables for humans to eat and benefit from, and nothing from dubious sources like marigold flowers, or tree bark. Guaranteed.

You can trust GNLD.