Paint Your Plate : Red
At-A-Glance
- Foods
- Mixed vegetable juice, pink grapefruit, tomatoes, tomato salsa, watermelon
- Antioxidants
- Lycopene (more readily available from cooked tomato products and juice than from whole raw tomatoes)
- Health Benefits
- May help prevent heart disease and prostate, colon, and rectal cancers
In-Depth
It is essential that you include red in any healthy eating plan everyday to help maintain a healthy heart, your memory functions and your urinary tract health and also help to lower the risk of cancer. In order to get reds into your diet every day include fruits and vegetables such as red apples, blood oranges, cherries, red grapes, cranberries, beets, red peppers, radishes, red onions and tomatoes.
Foods in this group contain the caretenoid lycopene, which helps the body to rid itself of free radicals which damage genes. Lycopene seems to protect against breast and prostate cancers as well as heart and lung disease. We need to eat foods such as tomatoes, watermelon and pink grapefruit to get these benefits. One glass of tomato juice will provide half of the recommended amount of lycopene.
Recipes
- Drop Red Gorgeous Tiramisu
- Florida Strawberry Shortcakes with Vanilla-Orange Syrup
- Cucumber, Tomato, and Radish Salad with Citrus Dressing
- Orzo with Feta, Green Beans, and Tomatoes
- Tropical Pan-Asian Calamari Salad
- Florida Peanut Noodles With Wild Shrimp
- Florida Sweet Bell Pepper Soup
- Florida Three Pepper Salad
- Florida Sweet Corn and Tomato Bisque
- Florida Strawberry Panini
- Fresh Strawberry-Mango Milkshake
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