What are the most nutricious fruits?

Answer 1

# Watermelon: Loads of vitamin C and carotenoids, good amount of fiber, and low in calories. # Papaya: Loads of vitamin C and carotenoids, great source of potassium and fiber. # Orange: Great vitamin C and folate, and plenty of fiber if you eat the whole fruit and not just the juice. # Grapefruit (pink or red): Loads of vitamin C and carotenoids, good amount of fiber of the cholesterol lowering type, pectin, plus it contains phytochemicals such as flavonoids, terpenes, and limonoids. # Apricots: They are brimming with beta-carotene, have loads of potassium and fiber, and contribute some vitamin C to the diet. Dried apricots don't have the vitamin C, but are a good source of iron. Canned apricots have only half the vitamin C and beta- carotene as fresh. Dictionary:

Cartenoids: Any of a class of yellow to red pigments found especially in plants, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria.

Folate: a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction

Flavonoids: Any of a large group of water-soluble plant pigments that are beneficial to health. Flavonoids are polyphenols and have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties. They also help to maintain the health of small blood vessels and connective tissue, and some are under study as possible treatments of cancer

Terpenes: Any of various unsaturated hydrocarbons, C10H16, found in essential oils and oleoresins of plants such as conifers and used in organic syntheses.

Limonoids: Any of a group of widely occurring yellowish-brown to black iron oxide minerals, essentially FeO(OH)·nH2O, used as a minor ore of iron.