Superfood of The Week

This weeks super food of the week is the apple, let's take a closer look at this superfood under the microscope see what makes it tick, apples contain soluble fibre and insoluble fibre, which is a good thing as we know one medium apple contains roughly 3 g of fibre, so if you eat four apples within a one-day period that's 12 grams of fibre, just from four apples which is going on for half the daily requirement of fibre you should eat every day.

Apples have excellent cardio health properties as well, they keep in check LDL cholesterol which is the type of cholesterol which tends to bind to your arteries the insoluble type of fibre that apples contain, will attach itself to cholesterol in the stomach thus removing it from the body as waste matter.

Apple's contain something called pectin, which act upon the LDL cholesterol within your liver thus reducing it, also so you have a two fold effect in process research has been done around foods, that are high in fibre such as apple's and it has been proven that they can prevent heart disease due to their high fibre content.

If you really want a really good laxative, or you have problems with constipation than Apple's yet again have a double whammy affect this is because of the fibre they have in them which as we know is insoluble and soluble.

So rather than buying some diarrhoea medication or a constipation remedy it might be worth trying day a apple it will be less expensive as well. Pectin in also is a good free radical remover removing such things as unnecessary metals etc.

If you're diabetic here is some good news apples contain fructose which is a simple sugar, this sugar breaks down slowly rather than quickly which in turn will keep blood sugar levels stable, apples calorie wise contain between 79 and 80 calories per apple which is hardly anything at all.

Myself I'm not really a great apple eater perhaps, I should be the problem, I have is when eating them they make me feel all cold, or what you can do which is which is what I have done is put them in a blender with some other foods and make a smoothie, and drink it like that. So another good all-rounder the apple.