Yoghurt

Probiotics are, along with fruits and vegetables, products consumed during the summer. The resulting fermented milk yogurt contains a large number of live and active bacterial cells with positive effects on health.

Fruits and vegetables

Their high water content, fiber, vitamins and other nutrients makes them the most appropriate food for the summer. Quench our hunger and thirst as appetizing and help keep our skin well nourished and hydrated.

An adequate intake of vegetables during these months would ration of between 200 and 250 grams per day. Of the vegetables: potatoes and tomatoes, and between fruit: Orange.

Soups and cold soups

Besides drinking water, “most recommended”, juices, fruit smoothies and soups or cold soups made with vegetables provide large amounts of water, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and other non-nutritive substances but important health benefits, known as natural antioxidants, which are found mostly in plant foods.

Do not eat too much salt

Despite the losses that occur with perspiration, and exceptional cases, in times of heat is necessary to increase the intake of salt. Some think it is necessary to ingest larger amounts of salt to replace what is lost through perspiration.

While it is true that when we sweat our body loses salt and water usually does not lose so much that needed taking extra amounts. Only those engaged in hard work and intensity at high temperatures and sweat profusely, and when the water consumption of a person from four liters a day, you should take extra amounts of salt, but both conditions are exceptional.

In the market and at our table we can find a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, which not only captivated our eyes but also protect us and filled with numerous and amazing benefits for our health. Fruits and vegetables included in the yellow-orange color belong to many different families, but all share common properties such as being rich in taste and provide health benefits.

1. Orange
The dried apricots provide garn amount of potassium. Although it is shocking to the eye, this color is common in flatware, has a wavelength and penetrating power, which increases the flavor of food. This color is presented primarily in fruits and rejuvenating virtues attributed to him. For its part, the orange is synonymous with good appetite.

2. Yellow
This color has a vital electrical wavelength and pleasant, as is customary in our plates and cutlery especially in pale yellow (provides a touch of exoticism to increase the taste of food without going to offend our sensibilities). Since the bright yellow can be irritating even to influence the quality of food, making them too much power to our taste.

Of yellow food is said to improve mood and promote a positive and happy life anta, while stimulating the mental faculties and enhance our memory. In psychology it is considered to yellow as a color can stimulate interest in life in people dissatisfied and that helps keep the focus on children.

3. What vegetables, fruits and other foods contain?
We will find the yellow and orange:

• Vegetables  such as corn, yellow peppers, carrots and squash.
• Fruits such as lemons, pineapples, pears yellow, orange, peach, apricot, tangerine, the loquat, grapefruit, mango, etc.
• Eggs contain protein, vitamin A and vitamin B complex The yolk is rich in folic acid.
• The cheese has protein, potassium and fat.
• The pulp that provides magnesium, riboflavin, folate, thiamine and niacin.
• Shrimp and other seafood provide us with niacin, protein, vitamin B12 and iron.

4. What’s in these foods?

• The yellow color exhibited by many of the plants we consume regularly, such as potatoes, have a pigment called Anthoxanthin, which is a good antioxidant.
• Some of the yellow fruit, especially pineapple, bromelain possess, which is a phytonutrient able to purify and protect the pancreas and suppress the inflammation process. This fruit is also rich in vitamin C and manganese.
• The tendency to yellow fruits with greens are rich in lutein and xeazantina both carotenoids are substances that protect our eyes, thus reducing the chance of developing cataracts and even vision loss.
• Foods orange-yellow hue have the most intense, are also rich in beta-carotene (provitamin A), an antioxidant compound that protects the skin from the sun and the body of cancer. They also have vitamin C, potassium (potatoes have twice the potassium than bananas) and folic acid. Helping us to have high defenses and a healthy skin and good vision.
• Fruits of pulling light orange yellow are rich in beta-cryptoxanthin, carotenoid that prevents degenerative diseases (cancer), regenerate our tissues and purifies our body from the harmful effects of snuff, pollution and other pollutants
• We should not let their wealth in fiber, case of yellow pears and corn.

5. Why we help?
Ultimately food yellow-orange help us:

• Reduce the risk of fetal malformations.
• Maintain good vision.
• Strengthen the immune system.
• Protect against some cancers.
• Keeping your skin healthy and young.

6. Did you know …?

• The carrot is the food richest in carotenoids.
• Bromelain (mainly pineapple) is an enzyme that aids digestion of proteins, then it is advised to bloating and slow digestion.
• The apricot for its potassium content is recommended for the dietary management of hypertension and other diseases related to fluid retention presenting diuretic nature.
• When you make orange juice, take it quickly and avoid loss of vitamin C.
• Mangoes contain vitamin B6, essential to keep the blood in optimal conditions.

7. Curiosities of these foods

• Lemons contain more juice than are those with thin skin and a bright yellow.
• The sleek look of oranges, is normally due to the wax layer is added to their skin in order to facilitate preservation.
• In India, the mango flesh dried and ground is used as a spice, giving the dishes a slightly acidic taste.
• Apricot (seed lodged in his only bone) is an oil similar to almond oil for massage and very useful for the preparation of cosmetics.
• The pineapple takes its name from Spanish explorers, who gave their name from their resemblance to the fruit of the pine.
• The Winter squash is used to get the angel hair.
• Depending on the variety of corn and the temperature varies the growing oil quality of it is earned. In fact maize grown at lower temperatures have more unsaturated oils oleic type grown in the tropics.
• The peach has long been associated with the desire and carnal instincts, this relationship is more pronounced in Chinese culture, which was used to represent the female genitalia.