Kale Healthy Diet Benefits from a Bitter Food Plate Garnishment

Kale is sometimes used by restaurants to garnish a plate. That green stuff is usually what’s left after everything else is devoured. Amazingly, this item just might be the healthiest thing that was on your entire plate.
Kale is not the tastiest food stuff you will ever consume, it is bitter. However, it [...]

Antioxidant Lycopene Sources and Its Benefit Against Cancer and for Immune System

Lycopene is an antioxidant that gives fruits and vegetables their pigment, or color. Consumption of lycopene rich food is believed to lower the risk of prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Your body does not produce lycopene, so you need to get it from your diet. Tomato products is the richest source, and other notable sources [...]

How Body Handles and Its Absorption of Vitamin A Retinol, Beta-Carotene and Carotenoids

Generally, there are two categories of vitamin A, depending on whether the food source is an animal or a plant.
Vitamin A from an animal food source is preformed vitamin A. It is absorbed in the form of retinol, your body’s most usable (active) form of vitamin A. This highly absorbing retinol can also be converted [...]