Are Plums The New Super Food

February 9, 2009 By Mark

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you than blueberries when people eat blueberries, they tend to eat small clumps of them.

But with eating plums you tend to eat more rather than just bits of the fruit, a leading researcher claims that just one plum, contains more antioxidants than a handful of blueberries.

Antioxidants tend to act like a small vacuum cleaner mopping up harmful chemicals and bacteria etc from damaging your cells, so the more food that you eat with antioxidants in then the better your cell health will be. The better your cell health will.

Other good news related to this is plums cost a pound a punnet, which is quite good value for money when you consider what you are getting, compared to the high price of some fruits that you can pay for.

Plums are very low in calories and contain no fat whatsoever, the key to getting the benefit out of eating plums is this to eat them with the skin on, because this is where most of the antioxidant properties of the fruit are

Some other research which was done in the United States regarding this fruit, found out that the poly-nutrients contained within the fruit, did have an effect on cancer such as breast cancer and also had an effect on cholesterol as well. However they did stress that more research was needed to be done in this particular area.

Other fruits that have similar properties to plums are nectarines, peaches and blueberries, so remember to keep some of those in your fruit basket or wherever you keep them. I for one now thing I shall eat more plums in my diet as I do quite like them. So it’s thumbs up for plums.

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