Reduce toxins in your life:3 ways to get &amp; ENJOY antioxidants

Reduce toxins in your life:
3 ways to get & ENJOY antioxidants

by Diana

natural-antioxidants

Time to read: 1.5 Minutes. Do you know what the most essential food for your health is and where you can get it? We’ve all heard of antioxidants. What are the most antioxidant rich foods? How many antioxidants do we need? How can I be SURE to get them every day? Let’s simplify it and discover a surprising way to get them into your body each day — and take pleasure in it.

Antioxidant benefits

First, antioxidants help us to battle with free radicals. Free who? Radicals. These thingies are the teeny-tiny little tidbits of stuff (uhh… crap) that make us age faster. Get old. Look like… well you know. And they contribute to cancer, diseases of all kinds. These little nasties are in everything. They’re mostly byproducts of things we do or eat — good and bad.

Here’s the good news. Anti-oxidants are measured in something called an ORAC unit (Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity). Most of us consume an average of 1250 Orac units (of antioxidants per day). The minimum is requirement is 5,000 units and the optimum is 10,000 units. So most of us aren’t gettin’ enough.

Eating antioxidant rich foods is critical to good health — mental and physical. Eating high ORAC foods helps you:

Create more anti-oxidant power in your blood
Improve memory
Prevent most diseases — including heart disease and cancer
Improve energy

So… there are a few natural ways to get your 10,000 daily units (or more) of antioxidants in one serving.

The KING of anti-oxidants: Chocolate

Raw cacao nibs to be precise. This is the most consumable form that are fun to nibble on. This is one natural way of getting your antioxidants — using Superfoods. Specifically raw cacao nibs. Put down that Hershey’s bar. No, no. That won’t work because it’s been so heavily processed. But nibs are not the only way to get the job done. How about some Acai-Chocolate ice cream? Yum. The combination of cacao and acai berry antioxidant.

Raw nibs contain 15,280 ORACS in one teaspoon. WOAH!

Spices and antioxidants: Cloves

Another natural way to get your antioxidants is by using the power of spices. One teaspoon of ground cloves contains 10,ooo units. Clove is a spice used mostly in the Mediterranean diet. Recent research from the Miguel Hernández University has identified cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) as the best antioxidant spice. They contain high levels of phenolic compounds, as well as having other properties.

The same team of researchers also evaluated the antioxidant effect of essential oils from other spices used in the Mediterranean diet – oregano (Origanum vulgare), thyme (Thymus vulgaris), rosemary, (Rosmarinus funcionarios cinalis) and sage (Salvia funcionarios cinalis).

So these two ways are the best and least expensive to get your daily antioxidants. But if you are not up for a spice or chocolate here’s an alternative way to get your minimum 5,000 units.