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Carotenoids

Bake, Roast, Mash, Top, or Drink

by laurel on September 12, 2007

Men’s Fitness magazine featured sweet potatoes as their “fit food” for October 2007.  The following list gives you six reasons why you should add sweet potatoes to your diet. Carotenoids – plant compounds help fight cell damage that happens in everyday life and during physical activities like a work out Vitamin E – prevents free [...]

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Keep Your Eyes Healthy

by laurel on March 31, 2007

Cooking Light Magazine reports that a cup of cooked frozen spinach has 29,811 micrograms of lutein and zeaxanthin (carotenoids that keep your eyes healthy by lowering the risk of AMD and cataracts).  The amount of carotenoids found in spinach is the highest found in any food. Ref: Cooking Light magazine, April 2007, p. 106

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