Eggplant is a very important vegetable for our health and bodies too, because it contains these kinds of nutrients:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B1, Thiamin
- Vitamin B6, Pyridoxine
- Vitamin B3, Niacin
- Dietary Fiber
- Potassium
- Tryptophan
- Folate
- Copper
- Manganese
- Carbohydrates
- Natural Sugar
- Water
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Phosphorus
Also, the Eggplant Vegetable has very good and important benefits for our health, like it:
- Protects Brain Cells
- An Antioxidant Vegetable
- Protects from free radicals
- Protects from bacteria
- Protects from Fungi
- Protects from some cancers
- An Antimicrobial Vegetable
- Protects from bad cholesterol
- Supports Immune system
- Reduces Cholesterol
So, next time you’re in the store and looking to buy some of the eggplant vegetable, then make sure that it does have a vivid color, it could be purple, white, or green. Make sure it is nice and smooth, shiny and doesn’t have any scars or bruises. The stem part and the cap part of the eggplant should be nice, bright, and green color. And of course, when buying any vegetable or fruit, make sure that it is NOT waxed, because the wax that some bad companies put on their fruits and vegetables is extremely bad for you and you can not get it out of your system once it’s in there. Enjoy.
Pineapple is a great fruit to include in Vegetable Salads, Fruit Salads and Even Pizzas. If you want to enjoy it fresh then first you’ll need to cut of the crown with those big green leaves, then the base. Now that you have the top and the bottom flat, you can then start cutting off the poky skin. Finally, you have a clean pineapple that you can slice or cut up into any size pieces that you would like. In about one cup of a fresh and juicy pineapple you’ll find these great ingredients: