Every food we eat has its own color.
There are red foods like apples, green foods like cucumbers, red foods like tomatoes, etc. Do you know that these foods have different nutritional values depending on their colors?
This time, we will learn about color food that has different nutritional values depending on the color and contains good ingredients for our body.
Read why you need to know the color and eat it.
The reason why color food became popular was that it started in the U.S. about a decade ago, from a campaign called “Five a Day.”
It was a movement to eat five colors of vegetables, fruits, and grains a day as a movement to eat tables tame in fast food and instant food with fresh vegetables and fruits.
Color food became more popular as it lowered the actual incidence of various diseases, and it helps the body recover and maintain normal function by preventing harmful oxygen in the body and helping to relieve immune function, aging, and stress than foods containing chemicals.
Let’s take a closer look at the effects of color food.
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- Green food that energizes your life
Green food that relaxes the body and mind. Rich chlorophyll in green fresh fruits and vegetables helps smooth metabolism, relieve fatigue, and boost the body’s natural healing power.
In oriental medicine, green is considered to be liver health, which means that eating a lot of green food relieves liver fatigue.
Green food’s representative foods are effective for people who often drink and smoke because they help regenerate cells by making blood with spinach, celery, broccoli, green tea, and plum, lower blood cholesterol levels and remove waste from their lungs.
Broccoli, the representative of green food, is rich in beta-carotene, routine, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, Kuwacetin, and glutathione, and has the best antioxidant effect among vegetables. It also has a high function of inhibiting carcinogens, activates intestinal exercise, eliminates toxins in the body, and helps prevent cancer.
Green tea, another representative of green food, is catechin, which prevents adult diseases and cancer, removes heavy metals, has antibacterial and sulfuric acid effects, and is known to be good for diet and skin by removing cholesterol in blood, liver, and intestines.
Plum, which contains organic acids such as plum citric acid, apple acid, and pumpkin acid, has excellent fatigue recovery function and maintains an acidic body with weak alkalinity, and has the effect of removing food poison, blood poison, and water poison, which also decomposes infectious diseases and food poisoning.
- Red food with anti-aging anti-cancer effects.
Enthusiastic red symbolizes vigorous energy and energetic youth, and oriental medicine said, “Red food strengthens heart function,” meaning that lycopene, which is contained in red pigments in fruits and vegetables, strengthens blood vessels and helps blood circulation throughout the body to prevent high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis.
Red foods, represented by tomatoes, peppers, jujubes, pomegranates, strawberries, and watermelons, clear blood, strengthen the heart, help blood circulation smoothly, and increase immunity and prevent cancer as they contain polyphenols and flavonoids that inhibit cancer cell growth.
Vitamin C in strawberries is more than 10 times higher than apples, so eating four to five servings a day can supplement the daily adult requirement of 50 mg, and the red color of strawberries is anthocyanin, which acts as cancer prevention, antioxidant, and vision recovery. It is also rich in organic acids, so it is known to be good for preventing aging and blood vessels.
Tomatoes contain minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, zinc, and vitamins such as vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, E, niacin, and folic acid, although more than 95% of them are very low in calories.
Lycopene, which makes tomatoes red, eliminates free radicals, prevents aging, and prevents cancer, especially because it is many times better than beta-carotene’s anticancer effect.
The main ingredient that makes peppers red is capsantin, and there are other carotenoids such as beta-carotene and kryptozancin.
These red ingredients are converted into vitamin A in the body and play a faithful role, and peppers are rich in various vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C than fruits. Capsaicin, a spicy ingredient unique to peppers, is also known to have anticancer effects that induce the destruction of cancer cells and carcinogens made in the stomach.
- Yellow food closely related to digestive functions
Oriental medicine believes that yellow food is closely related to the function of the digestive system, which occupies the center of the human body, which means yellow food is good for people with weak digestion.
Yellow foods such as pumpkins, honey, bananas, carrots, and corn boost the functions of the spleen and stomach, prevent immunity from weakening or various adult diseases due to poor nutrition, and beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and carotenoids in yellow foods also have anti-cancer effects and prevent aging.
The yellow color of amber is the effect of carotenoids, which contain beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and routine, producing vitamin A and removing free radicals to anticancerize. The dietary fiber in pumpkin releases carcinogens attached to the colon wall with feces, which is also good for colon cancer.
Pottery rich in potassium and vitamins A, B, and C also help excretion and make healthy eyes.
Bananas contain 25% carbohydrates instead of less moisture, so eating one can be an effective nutritional source for office workers who often skip breakfast, and bananas are rich in dietary fiber and pectin is effective for constipation and diarrhea.
Honey, called a living food, is more nutritious in darker colors, and it is rich in vitamins, proteins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes.
It also contains a large amount of antioxidant ingredients that prevent aging and have anti-cancer effects, and there is also a nicotine acid ingredient called “skin vitamin,” which has the effect of relieving rough skin and spots.
- White Food Responsible for Healthy Middle Age
In oriental medicine, white is considered to be related to respiratory function, but bellflower, radish, and bean sprouts are actually good foods for the lungs and bronchial tubes, preventing colds during the change of seasons and good for people with weak respiratory systems.
Antoxanthine and flavonoid components in white pigments in food inhibit oxidation in the body, release harmful substances outside the body, and develop resistance to bacteria and viruses entering the body.
In particular, garlic and onions contain allicin and potatoes contain saponin, which lowers blood cholesterol levels and prevents high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, and potatoes contain the most pantophenic acid among vegetables, strengthening the gastric mucosa and relieving stress.
It is also rich in potassium, which is good for hypertensive patients by discharging sodium accumulated in the body out of the body. Vitamin C in potatoes is known to be nutritious because it is not destroyed even after cooking and the amount does not decrease even if stored for a long time.
Garlic is rich in vitamin B성 ingredients that prevent fatigue, zinc, which is good for prostate and bladder inflammation, and alicin, which has anti-cancer effects, and is said to be good for high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, angina, myocardial infarction, and stroke.
Oysters, called “Milk of the Sea,” have a lot of zinc in minerals, which make men’s semen and help with the activity of male hormone testosterone, and serve as an energy source due to their high glycogen content, and are also rich in vitamins, minerals, copper, iron, and magnesium, which are effective for anemia and pregnant women.
- Comprehensive nutritional black food that is responsible for the brain
In oriental medicine theory, “black food boosts kidney function.” For example, eating hard black plant seeds such as black beans improves the reproductive function of producing human seeds, and black beans contain a large amount of isoflavones that act as female hormones, which are good for overcoming menopause.
Antocyanine pigments and flavonoids contained in black foods such as black rice, black sesame, black beans, squid ink, seaweed, and kelp develop antioxidant capabilities in our bodies, improving immunity, preventing various diseases, and delaying aging. Also, it has effects such as anti-aging and anti-cancer effects.
Black beans are high-protein and high-calorie foods rich in protein, fat, and carbohydrates, and are rich in minerals such as dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, and zinc, which are effective in promoting brain activity, treating osteoporosis, and preventing depression or insomnia.
Melanin pigment in squid ink is a representative animal natural pigment that has excellent anticancer and antibacterial effects, has an elixin component that prevents tumor activity, and is also effective in preservative action, gastric secretion promotion, and hemorrhoids.
Kelp is an excellent alkaline food that can prevent the body from becoming acidic if eaten with meat and ssambap, which are acidic foods, and alginate in kelp adsorbs heavy metals, carcinogens, urine, intestinal harmful gases, and cholesterol to help prevent constipation and colon cancer.
Caviar Sturgeon’s salted caviar is rich in DHA and prevents aging, especially for quick recovery after surgery, and caviar is said to replace vitamins that are likely to be deficient in cold areas where vegetables are not consumed much.
In this session, we learned about color food that we often see around us.
Color food that you can eat more deliciously and healthily if you know it, so please take a look at the color when you eat from now on.
Thank you for reading it.
