The Nutritional Key of Purple Food: Anthocyanin
What is the charm of purple food? In the past two years, there has been a wave at home and abroad. Not only the relevant dishes are eagerly awaited, but even agricultural experts have devoted themselves to research and cultivated new varieties of agricultural products such as purple sweet potatoes, purple cabbage and purple onions.
In addition to the mystery, luxury, magic and dignity in chromatics, Ni, a nutritionist at Changhua Christian Hospital, said that from the perspective of nutrition, purple food has its unique nutritional value. The color of purple food mainly comes from anthocyanins. Many studies have pointed out that anthocyanin is a natural antioxidant, which has the characteristics of antioxidation and vasodilation, and can prevent various diseases caused by excessive free radical production and increased oxidative stress in the body.
For athletes, although regular exercise habits can promote health, the current sports and fitness atmosphere is prevalent. Many people not only pursue health, but also want to challenge themselves and continue to break PB (personal best abbreviation). If you accidentally let yourself practice more, you will easily produce a lot of free radicals, which will increase the oxidative stress of your body and be harmful to your health! At this time, anthocyanin supplementation can play a good antioxidant role and help alleviate muscle inflammation, soreness and fatigue caused by exercise.
Nutrition supplement can also be fantastic ~ 2 cups of purple latte DIY
If you are tired of the choice of drinking only white drinks such as milk or soybean milk after exercise, try making a "purple dream latte" yourself! Nutritionist Ni said that among the six categories of foods, purple foods are mostly found in whole roots (such as purple sweet potato, purple yam and taro), vegetables (such as purple cabbage and eggplant) and fruits (such as purple berries and purple grapes). People who exercise and keep fit can use protein's rich milk or soybean milk as the base material, and then add these purple foods to make juice, which looks good.
In purple food, you can choose sugary whole roots and fruits, because sugar can supplement liver sugar consumed during exercise and help restore physical strength. It is listed as the two most needed nutrients after exercise with protein, and it is suggested to supplement them together. Here are two kinds of purple lattes suitable for drinking after exercise:
1. taro milk: after taro is washed, peeled, cut into pieces and steamed, 80 ~120g is taken and mixed with 290ml low-fat milk in a blender.
2. Purple taro soybean milk: Wash the purple sweet potato, peel it, steam it, take120-240g, and mix it with 260ml sugar-free soybean milk in a blender.
Health tips:
Nutritionist Ni stressed that purple food is popular, but a healthy diet should pay attention to balance and should not pay too much attention to single nutrition or single color food. Therefore, people are advised not to forget to eat purple food with other colors of ingredients, and to control the "portion" of food to keep healthy!
People who exercise and keep fit can use protein's rich milk or soybean milk as the base material, and then add purple food to make fruit juice, which is both beautiful, delicious and nutritious. Nutritionist Ni stressed that when people eat purple food, don't forget to eat it with other colors, and control the "portion" of food, so as to be healthy forever! (Photo courtesy of Ni Nutritionist)