Vegetable Superfoods
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Superfoods are rich in antioxidants and are consumed to prevent modern-day life style diseases such as heart attack, diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis. Vegetable Superfoods are those vegetables which are rich in plant-based antioxidants and phytonutrients that help us stay fit and young. Major vegetable Superfoods are brassica vegetables, bulb vegetables, seaweeds, and mushrooms.
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Vegetable Superfoods: An Introduction
Superfoods are rich in antioxidants and are consumed to prevent modern-day life style diseases such as heart attack, diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis. Vegetable Superfoods are those vegetables which are rich in plant-based antioxidants and phytonutrients that help us to stay fit and young. Major vegetable Superfoods are brassica vegetables, bulb vegetables, seaweeds, and mushrooms.
What are Antioxidants? An antioxidant is a substance that inhibits oxidation, especially that of free radicals. Free radicals are chemically unstable molecular fragments or atoms that have a charge due to excess or deficient number of electrons and are directly responsible for cell degeneration and resultant ageing process in human beings. The immediate tendency of free radicals, as soon as they are formed, is to become stable by reacting with cellular components (for example: DNA) or cell membrane. The result is DNA damage, malignant tumour formation (cancer) and diabetes, cataract, heart diseases and other cell degenerative diseases. Some of the examples of free radicals are superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical, transition metals such as iron and copper, nitric acid and ozone.
Major sources of free radicals are normal oxidation process happening within the human body (i.e. released as a byproduct of cell metabolism), exposure to pollution (free radicals may be present in the air we breathe), exposure to sunlight and lifestyle factors such as alcohol consumption, wrong diet habits (free radicals may be present in the food we eat), stress, and smoking. Some of the examples of cell damage by free radicals are cataract (lens of the eyes become opaque), damage to cell's protective lipid layer (cell membrane), and heart diseases where free radicals trap LDL (low density lipoprotein) in blood artery walls and form coatings.
Antioxidants are present in the form of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and polyphenolic compounds. Major Antioxidant Vitamins are Vitamin C and Vitamin E. Major antioxidant minerals are Zinc, Manganese and Selenium. Selenium is essential to form an active site of most antioxidant enzymes. Manganese is required by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Major antioxidant enzymes present in human body are Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and Glutathione and glutathione peroxidise. All these three groups of