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Balanced Diet Ideas: Fruit  

Mixing up your food intake making sure to include foods that offer nutrients can be seen as balance. Here are some ideas and fruit suggestions along with the nutritional value they hold

• Apples – A very popular fruit that varies in size and flavours. They are rich in soluble and insoluble fibers including pectin, hemicellulose and cellulose. A great source of Vitamin C, usually we think of oranges to get Vitamin C but apples also contain this. Helps with Digestion, gut and heart health.
• Banana – Seen as tropical usually grown in hot climates, Bananas are a great antioxidants and depending on the ripeness can produce various results. Unripe they are considered high in starch, sugars when ripe. The types of sugars you’ll find when ripe are sucrose, fructose, and glucose. Great for cardiovascular health as a great source of potassium, a vital electrolyte. Sending signals to the heart to regulate its beat. Main Vitamins and minerals are Potassium, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin C

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Minerals & Vitamins  

There are many minerals that the body requires, but there are three main minerals considered essential for the body to function at it’s best. These are Calcium, iron and potassium. What are minerals really? Minerals are there to help the body develop and function, essentially they set the standard for good health. By understanding the different minerals you’ll be armed with the knowledge needed to get enough of what you need daily.

Although we mentioned three essential minerals, there are a number of others that are important for different reasons.

Like Minerals Vitamins are needed for the body to function and develop normally. Although most vitamins are essential Vitamin D is considered the most powerful as there is a huge number of people that are deficient in this area. Vitamins essentially are substances our bodies need on a day to day basis. Vitamin A, C, D, E, K, Choline, and B vitamins should be looked into often, Vitamins can be broken into many different subcomponents like, B12, B6, Biotin, and a number of others.

Combining Minerals and Vitamins gives our bodies the best chance of staying healthy, developing great cells, and increasing immunity.

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