Healthy Foods For Summer Season, Foods To Eat During Summer

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Healthy Foods For Summer Season

The food you consume matters a lot to maintain your body. But, during the summer season, you should be aware that the body requires a huge amount of water to keep body hydrated.

The reason for consuming the food in the summer season is basically dependent on the water content in the food, the property of balancing the body's hydration, preventing constipation, etc.

Healthy Fruits For Summer Diet:

Fruits play an important role in keeping the body in a hydrated state. Fruits are rich in water content, nutrients, vitamins electrolytes, and other minerals. Some of the fruits are as followed below:

• Water Melons: Watermelon is one among the fruit containing higher levels of water in it. It consists of 92% water. It is loaded with rich electrolytes that help the body to remain hydrated. Since it has low calories, you can consume it without affecting your body weight.

• Berries: Berries like cranberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc. are rich in contents like antioxidants, vitamin C, fiber, potassium, copper, etc. that helps in the normal metabolism of the body and helps in maintaining the body to be hydrated.

• Avocados: Avocados are rich in vitamins and high levels of monosaturated fatty acids that are responsible for reducing heat in the body. It helps in boosting digesting process with less requirement of heat energy.

• Over-Ripened Bananas: The main advantage of consuming over-ripened bananas during the summer season is due to the high fiber content in them. Consuming high fiber content food during the summer season enhances the easy passage of bowels (stools) and helps to prevent constipation.

• Apple: Apple benefits in boosting the body's metabolism. It is rich in antioxidants too. It promotes digestion due to fiber content in it. Promotion in digestion reduces heat liberation in the body.

• Figs: Figs contain higher fiber content than the apple has. Due to increased fiber content, the digestion and excretion processes are enhanced. This leads to less utilization of energy and reduces body heat.

• Cantaloupes: Cantaloupes is also one of the fruits containing high water levels. It contains about 95% of water. This fruit is the best source of food you need to consume during the summer season as it helps you to cool down your body temperature.

• Key Lime: Key Lime is rich in citrus that aids in the easy breaking of fatty acids in the body and make the digestion process easy. Easy digestion requires less energy consumption and thus heat production is reduced.

• Coconut: Coconut is a type that provides fruit, oil, and water. The coconut is rich in electrolytes that are very important to our body for maintaining hydration and coolness.

• Pears: Pears help in promoting digestion due to their fiber content. It also benefits in boosting immunity and reducing blood sugar levels. It prevents acne and oily skin.

• Ripened Papaya: Papaya is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, and E, antioxidants, nutrients, improves digestion, etc. It keeps the body hydrated.

• Tomatoes: Tomatoes are rich in vitamins and antioxidants. It contains high water levels that maintain the body hydrated.

• Mango: Mangoes are the seasonal fruits that arrive during summer. It is the fruit loved by most people around the world. It is rich in nutrients fiber that promotes digestion and prevents eye, heart, and stomach-related issues.

• Oranges: Oranges are also rich in citric acid, Vitamin C, it prevents skin damage during summer. It boosts immunity and helps to maintain body water levels and prevents dehydration.

• Nuts: Nuts like cashew and almond have many health benefits. When these are soaked are consumed provides energy to the body. It also prevents heart, diabetes, and other conditions.      

• Guava: Guava fruit is another fruit having various benefits like promotes skin glow, maintaining blood glucose levels, boosting heart health, enhances digestion, etc. It helps the body to keep cool. Consuming a lot of guava during winter or rainy seasons leads to cough.

Healthy Herbs For Summer Diet:

Herb serves various benefits on the health not only during summer but other seasons too. Herbs from ancient times provide many benefits to human life.

• Basil: Holy Basil is a typical herb that has several benefits in the medicinal field. It enhances digestion. It provides relief to the mind and reduces stress.

• Mint: Mint is also another type of medicinal herb which has benefits in many ways including medicinal, food, chewing gums, etc. due to its property of providing coolness and refreshment when consumed.

Beneficial Vegetables For Summer Diet:

• Dark Green Leafy Vegetables: These vegetables are rich in vitamin C and K, rich in antioxidants, fiber, folic acid, etc. These having a rich source of fiber promotes digestion and easy passage of stools during excretion resulting in reduced consumption of body energy and thus reduce heat production.

• Cucumber: Cucumber due to its high water content helps in promoting digestion and provides coolness to your body. 

• Shelling Beans: These are rich in folate, iron, potassium, thiamin, magnesium, and other minerals. It enhances bowel moments due to the presence of fibers in it.

• Summer Squashes: It is rich in fiber, vitamin A, C, and vitamin B6, folate, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, etc. Thus, having rich in nutrients has many health benefits. These nutrients help the body in hydrated conditions.

• Celery And Fennel: These are rich in nutrients, folic acid, potassium, vitamins, etc. that helps in maintaining blood pressure, promoting digestion, boosts metabolism and heart health.

• Radish: Consuming radish has various health benefits like it promotes immunity, maintains blood pressure, increases functioning in blood vessels, high fiber content promotes digestion. Easy digestion aids in the conservation of body energy and reduced heat liberation.

• Cabbages: It contains vitamin C, rich in nutrients, maintains cholesterol levels and blood pressure, improves heart health, the fiber content in cabbages promotes digestion which prevents constipation during summer.

Some Healthy Cold Foods For Summer Season:

• Cold Butter Milk: Cold buttermilk is the best to drink during the summer season. It mainly provides coolness to the body and aid in digestion. It is mostly consumed after having meals. Its ingredients prevent constipation.

• Ice Cream: Ice cream is the common option people find during the summer season to eat. Due to its icy and cool property, most people are attracted to it during this season. It not only provides cold to the mouth but also to the stomach, nose, etc during the course of eating it. Do you feel attracted to the ice creams after reading the above paragraph?

• Lemon Juice: Lemon juice is a rich source of vitamin C, antioxidants, citric acid, and also water that helps to prevent dehydration. It also helps to promote coolness to the body.

• Cold Salads: Cold salads are a mixture of vegetables and rice or fruits and ice creams. The combination of either two provides energy as well as coolness to the body. The salad is rich in nutrients, vitamins, and fiber that promotes digestion.

• Yogurt: Yogurt contains low calories. It helps in reducing body weight. It provides coolness to the body more than ice creams do because of its high water content.

• Iced Tea: Iced tea is a type of cold tea that provides cold and refreshment to the body.

• Curd: Curd being a by-product of milk provides a cooling effect to the body. It is recommended to have when you are suffering from indigestion. 

• Cold Coffee: Cold coffee keeps the body cool and helps to promote the efficiency of the brain. This is among the top drink consumed by people across the globe.

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