Which Foods Are High In Vitamin C?
Raise your hand if you start going hard on the OJ the second you get the sniffles. Yep, same. If oranges aren’t your jam, though, there are plenty of other foods high in vitamin C in the produce aisle.
Can they singlehandedly wipe out a cold, though? Probably not so much. (Don’t shoot the messenger!) But vitamin C is still “one of the most important nutrients in our body for overall health,” says nutritionist Liz Weinandy, RD, of The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.
Vitamin C’s benefits include a stronger immune system and lower levels of damaging free radicals in your body, which make the antioxidant important for disease prevention, says Weinandy.
In fact, vitamin C may play a vital role in reducing your risk of heart disease—and even improve quality of life for cancer patients, suggests research from the National Institutes of Health.
Excerpted from Women’s Health
