Summer foods
Watermelon:
Watermelon is summer’s most popular vegetable. It is part of the cucumber, pumpkin, and squash family.
Mango:
Mangoes are high in vitamins A and C. Eat one cup of sliced mangoes, and you've covered about 25 percent of your daily recommended intake of vitamin A (which is good for your eyesight)
Tomato:
Slicing 1 cup of raw tomato (about one medium-sized fruit) for your lunchtime salad gives you as much as 40 percent of your recommended daily intake of vitamin C and 20 percent of your daily vitamin A -- all for just about 35 calories and zero fat
Water:
Water helps keep your body hydrated, which is important for keeping all of your bodily systems working properly. It keeps tissues moist and cells healthy, and it helps remove toxins and waste. It helps the body regulate temperature and helps prevent dehydration
Bell Peppers/ Capsicum :
Bell peppers make a colorful addition to a snack, salad or meal, but there's more to this crunchy fruit (yes, bell pepper is technically a fruit, rather than a vegetable) than meets the eye. Sweet bell peppers are low in calories and high in vitamins. One-half of a cup of green, red or yellow bell peppers contains more than 230 percent of your recommended daily vitamin C intake, and only 20 calories
Beans and Legumes:
Beans and legumes such as black beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils and soybeans are good sources of antioxidants for cell health, as well as B vitamins, folate, calcium, iron, potassium and protein. They're also full of fiber.
Leafy Greens:
Greens are full of the cell-protecting and repairing antioxidants vitamins C and A, and contain protein and iron, as well as B vitamins and fiber. They also contain a lot of water, which will help keep you hydrated during hot summer days.
Green Tea:
Green tea is packed full of healthy antioxidants, similar to those found in blueberries, grapes and pomegranates, and it's those antioxidants that help keep us healthy.Green tea may help reduce your risk of all sorts of health problems, including obesity, diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Cucumber:
Cucumbers. You can put them on your eyes to help reduce redness and puffiness. You can put them in your water to add a punch of flavor to a cold beverage. And they make a tasty high-fiber, low-calorie snack.
Avocado:
Avocados find their way onto salads, into dressings and on top of burgers with regularity, so it's a good thing that they're full of all sorts of healthy things, including fiber, vitamins B5, B6, C, K, folate and potassium, as well as cell-protecting antioxidants.
Blueberry:
Blueberries may reduce the risk of developing harmful plaques in your arteries, which in turn reduces your risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke.
...Divya