Top 10 Reasons to Eat Fruit

1. Eating fruit regularly is associated with a stunning array of benefits: a lower risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, cataracts, and functional decline associated with aging. That’s one reason there are so many fruits are included in Akea Essentials.
2. Fruit tastes great. Know why plants developed that sweet, juicy fruit around their seeds? To tempt animals and birds into eating it—so that the seeds will be dropped somewhere to grow into a new plant.
3. Eating fruit helps keep your skin young. It provides vitamin C, which is necessary for building collagen. Collagen is also used to keep veins strong and supple, which is why sailors’ gums used to bleed when they were suffering from scurvy (vitamin C deficiency). If your gums bleed when you brush your teeth, you probably need more vitamin C.
4. Eating fruit is a great way to get a range of antioxidant vitamins and minerals as well as phytochemicals.
5. Fruit helps create alkaline, anti-inflammatory conditions in the body. It also helps reverse acidic, pro-inflammatory conditions in the body. Those conditions—which are common in modern societies—cause chronic disease such as cancer and heart disease.
6. Fruit is a good source of potassium, a critical electrolyte that helps keep blood pressure down and maintains the water balance in cells.
7. Eating a piece of fruit can satisfy a sweet craving without any detrimental effects.
8. Fruit can help combat stress. How? It contains potassium, magnesium and vitamin C, which the adrenal glands need to respond to stress.
9. Fruit contains soluble and insoluble fiber, which helps keep your colon free of the toxins that can lead to bowel cancer.
10. Some fruit, such as berries, can actually make you brainier. Why? They contain proanthocyanidins which enhance neuronal pathways and help regenerate nerve cells.

Tip: Cornell researchers found that the plant compounds in fruit have an enormously powerful synergistic effect. For you, that means incredible health benefits. For instance, tests showed that eating 100g of apple (about one small apple) is the equivalent in antioxidant of having 1,500mg of vitamin C.