Bell Pepper Juice
Biography
Bell pepper is one of the vegetables in the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, which includes eggplant, tomatoes and potatoes. The juice of the various different colours of bell pepper vary. But they have an sweet slightly acidic taste to them.
The various nutritional profile and phytonutrients vary between the different colours such as red, green, yellow and orange. Juicing a variety is the best way as always to get a broad range of different beneficial compounds.
Nutritional Analysis
Bell peppers are a great source of the vitamins C, A, K, B1, E and a moderate amount of folate. Whilst being a good source of the minerals silicon, potassium, molybdenum, manganese and copper.
As has been said above the nutritional profile and beneficial phytonutrient compounds vary over the different colour of peppers.
Bell Peppers contain a wide range of studied "phytonutrient compounds" that have shown anti-oxident or anti-cancer properties. Those phytochemicals include chlorogenic acid, zeaxanthin, and coumeric acid. Red bell peppers contain a source of lycopene also which is the compound that gives tomatoes alot of their benefits. Whilst the green pepper is a source of chlorophyll.
Health Benefits Summary
- Arthritis
- Adrenal Fatigue
- Cardiovascular Health
- Eye Health
- Hair Loss
- Lung Health
Important Information
In terms of strength bell peppers are considered a green juice so its best if you want to avoid detox symptoms to have your juice only consisting of a quater of them.
As with all other produce buy organic, as it reduces the chances of the peppers being coated in a wax aswell as pesticides.
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