Aside from making your dinner table look festive, eating a
rainbow has amazing health perks! Here are some of our favorite
foods of every color, and the health benefits they offer: Red:
Raspberries, cherries, pomegranate, strawberries Lycopene and
anthocyanins provide fruits & vegetables with their red hue, and
also may help prevent certain cancers, in addition to being rich
sources of antioxidants. Tip: Lycopene mixed with a little fat
(i.e. in a tomato-based spaghetti sauce) may actually absorb
into the body better than lycopene from raw tomatoes. Orange:
Pumpkins, apricots, carrots, mangoes, papaya Caretonoids are the
natural color source for orange fruits and vegetables, and are
converted to Vitamin A by your body. Citrus fruits, however, are
usually rich sources of Vitamin C and pholate, rather than
caretonoids. Yellow: Lemons, squash, pineapple, grapefruit Many
yellow fruits have similar properties to the orange fruits. When
picking foods to eat, consider both yellow and orange to be your
sources of car