The World's Healthiest Foods

            

According to several sources and surveys in western Europe and north America, the following foods are considered overall to be the most healthy.

Apples: Apples are an excellent source of anti-oxidants, which can combat free radicals. Free radicals are damaging substances generated in the body that cause undesirable changes and are involved in aging process and some diseases.

Some animal studies have shown that an ant-oxidant found in apples(Polyphenols) might extend lifespan. Polyphenols help fruits to preserve their taste.

Sweet Potatoes: They are rich in dietary fiber, beta careotene, complex carbohydrate, vitamin C, vitamin B6, as well as pink and yellow carotenes.

The center for science in the public interest, USA, compared the nutritional value of sweet potatoes to other vegetables – the sweet potatoes came number one, when vitamin A and C, Iron, calcium, protein and complex carbohydrates were considered.

Eggs: Egg yolks are home to tons of essential but hard to get nutrients, including choline, which are linked to lower rates of breast cancer. One egg yolk supplies 25 percent of your daily need and ant-oxidant that may help prevent muscular degeneration and cataracts. Though many of us have shunned whole eggs because of their link to heart disease risk, there’s actually substantial evidence that eggs are not harmful but healthy. People with heart disease should limit egg yolk to two a week, but the rest of us with no heart disease can have one whole egg daily. Research shows it will not raise your risk of heart attack or stroke. Make omelets with one whole egg and two whites, and watch cholesterol at other meals.