Which Are The Top 20 Foods Highest In Antioxidants?

If you're interested in antiaging, then you would have heard about antioxidants, and how important they are in slowing skin aging.

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So how do antioxidants help you get younger looking skin?

See, in almost every chemical process in your body that involves oxygen, free radicals are formed. And these free radicals, which if unchecked, will damage cells, including your skin cells, and cause premature aging.

If you're in the sun, stressed, exercise excessively, or are exposed to toxins (including cigarette smoke), then you'll make a lot more free radicals everyday.

This is where antioxidants come in.Your body uses antioxidants to reduce this free radical damage and slow your rate of skin aging.

The Okinawans for example, have gorgeous youthful looking skin, and have been mistaken to look 20-30 years younger than their age! They are also the most healthy population in the world. And the antioxidant levels in their blood streams were found to be 5 times higher than that of Americans.

So how do we get these antioxidants?

Well there are 2 ways.

The best ways are to combine a breakthrough wrinkle cream that works which contains antioxidants, plus to get them in your diet.

Which foods contain the highest antioxidants?

There was a study by the USDA which looked at over 100 different foods to see their antioxidant levels.

The study also included nuts and spices for the first time.

The best sources are, as you may have guessed, fruits and vegetables. But which ones? Well, let's have a look.

The top fruits

Blueberries (wild and cultivated) (these came up as number 2 and 5 overall)

Cranberries

Blackberries

Prunes

Rapsberries

Strawberries

Granny Smith apples

Red Gala apples

The top vegetables and legumes

Red beans (this came up as number 1overall)

Kidney beans

Pinto beans

Cooked artichokes

Russet potatoes

Black beans

The top nuts

Pecans

Hazelnuts

Walnuts

The top spices

Ground cloves

Ground cinammon

Oregano

So there you have it.

Of course, there are more foods high in antioxidants, but these are just the top 20 listed.

Just remember that nuts are dense in calories, so just have small amounts when you have them.

On the other hand, vegetables and fruit are much lower in calories per serve, so these are a great way to get your antioxidants every single day.

A great snack to have if you're hungry?

Try yoghurt (especially high quality yoghurt) with fresh or frozen blueberries, cranberries and blackberries.

The berries are loaded with antioxidants (the cream of the crop!) and the yoghurt (being a protein) makes the snack lower GI, as well as having lots of other health benefits.

There are 2 other high antioxidant foods that were not in the top 20, but are also well documented.

Firslty is extra virgin olive oil (not processed olive oil), so use this in your cooking or salads, but again, have small amounts as oil is dense in calories.

And the other, if you drink alcohol, is red wine. Again, in moderation!

So go for it and have a diet that's rich in antioxidants, as well as using a breakthrough wrinkle cream that works.

When you combine both, the results are much better than one alone.

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