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💖Health is a colorful picture and paying attention only to green and forgetting about red also makes the whole picture less vivid.
💖According to WHO recommendations, we should eat at least 400gr of fruits and vegetables every day with a variety of colors to maintain stable health. However, according to a statistic, in Vietnam, 57% of adults cannot ensure this minimum amount of vegetables and fruits. (1)
💖Many red fruits and vegetables have powerful, healthy antioxidants — such as lycopene and anthocyanins — that can do everything from fight heart disease and prostate cancer to lower your risk of stroke. stroke and macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in people 60 years of age and older). Antioxidants absorb damaging free radicals. (2)
💖Beetroot are also a representative of the red color nutrition. Despite its rough appearance, amaranth is a deliciously flavored vegetable that contains a unique antioxidant called betacyanin. This pigment gives beets their deep color and has medicinal properties such as: supporting the liver, improving blood circulation and purifying the blood. (3)
💖If people for some reason don’t want/can’t eat the minimum amount of vegetables, tubers and fruits, why don’t we choose to DRINK vegetables, tubers and fruits? Beetroot juice helps reduce blood pressure for 1 hour after drinking. Drinking beetroot juice regularly helps to reduce the risk of heart disease and is one of the cancer prevention diets.
Source:
(1)https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnamese-diet-too-much-salt-and-not-enough-fruit-and-veg-3465675.html
(2)https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/red-foods-the-new-health-powerhouses
(3)https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20121212/beetroot-juice-blood-pressure
