Eating the Rainbow: YELLOW Foods

Yellow colored fruits and vegetables might be my personal favorite because they carry many helpful compounds to help enhance digestion. Many of them are also enzyme rich – meaning they are catalysts to help promote proper digestion and the processing of the food we eat. Examples of yellow foods include bananas, yellow bell pepper, ginger, lemon, golden beets, chamomile flowers, chickpeas, yellow potatoes, pineapples, plantains, quinoa and many others!Nutritional Uses:Plant Compounds in Yellow Foods: Bromelain, Gingerol, Lutein, Rutin, ZeaxanthinTry it out: The Yellow SmoothieI like pairing banana, pineapple, and a small amount of ginger in a smoothie if you are in a smoothie mood!Try it out: Crunchy chickpeasMy all time favorite snack in the yellow category is crunchy chickpeas. You can add some yellow bell peppers on the side for an extra dose of yellow. You can check out the recipe HERE.Resources:Altınbaş A, Ekiz F, Başar Ö, Kılınçalp S, Yılmaz B, …, Yüksel O. Drinking pineapple juice for undigested food in stomach. Turk J Gastroenterol. 2014 Apr;25(2):220-1. doi: 10.5152/tjg.2014.4012.Bae J-M, Kim EH. Dietary intakes of citrus fruit and risk of gastric cancer incidence: An adaptive meta-analysis of cohort studies. Epidemiology and Health. 2016;38:e2016034. doi:10.4178/epih.e2016034.Nikkhah Bodagh M, Maleki I, Hekmatdoost A. […]