Paint Your Plate
Yellow - Orange
At-A-Glance
- Foods
- Acorn squash, apricots, cantaloupes, carrots, golden beets, mangos, persimmons, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, winter squash. Guavas, kumquats, nectarines, oranges, orange juice, papayas, peaches, pineapple, starfruit, tangerines, yellow grapefruit, yellow passion.
- Antioxidants
- Alpha and beta carotenes, vitamin C, folate. Beta cryptothanxin, a minor carotenoid; limonoids.
- Health Benefits
- May help prevent lung disease, heart disease, and birth defects (only folate); improves communication between cells, helping them fight the spread of cancer. Boosts the immune system and inhibits the synthesis of cholesterol, which is needed to activate cancer-cell growth.
In-Depth
Including these foods in your diet will ensure that your heart remains healthy, your vision stays sharp and your immune system is functioning optimally. These foods can lower the risk related to some forms of cancer. Yellow/orange fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of anti-oxidants such as vitamin C as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids (which are two forms of phytochemicals). You should include orange/yellow fruits and vegetables in your diet and eat yellow apples, apricots, melons (cantaloupes), yellow figs, lemons, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, carrots, yellow and orange peppers, pumpkin and sweet corn.
Foods in this group contain beta cryptothanxin, a phytochemical which enables our body's cells to communicate with each other. It may also help prevent heart disease. Eat pineapple, oranges, tangerines, peaches, papayas and nectarines to receive these benefits.
Recipes
- Florida Tropical Fruit Salad with Lemongrass Simple Syrup
- Yellow Squash and Corn Soup
- Muscadine-Orange and Wildflower Honey Glaze
- Chilled Florida Wildflower Honey and Carrot Soup
- Florida Sweet Corn and Tomato Bisque
- Curried Florida Squash Bisque
- Fresh Strawberry-Mango Milkshake
- Mucho Mango Bread Pudding
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