The tan comes from eating the right foods! Carrots, salads, chicory, lettuce, melons, peppers, tomatoes, apricots, strawberries and cherries: it is the top ten of "tanning foods", able to stimulate the production of melanin, and therefore the tan, but also protect the body from the summer heat.
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Fruits and vegetables allies oftanning and against the hot. The tan comes with eating the right foods! Carrots, salads, chicory, lettuce, melons, peppers, tomatoes, apricots, strawberries and cherries: top ten of "tanning foods", able di stimulate the production of melanin, and therefore the tan, but also protect the body from the summer heat.
To confirm it is the Coldiretti, which - after the sudden arrival of heat and heat - has drawn up a ranking of natural foods, which help tan and hydrate the body.
these in fact typical foods of the summer season, are able - thanks to the high content of liquids and mineral salts - to protect the body from heat stroke and from the effects caused by very high temperatures, clearly above the seasonal averages.
Good nutrition - explains Coldiretti - must be accompanied by common sense rules in sun exposure, especially at the beginning of the season. It is therefore important to know your phototype and use creams suitable for your skin, especially on children, to minimize exposure to sunlight, especially in the central hours of the day, not to expose yourself to the sun with perfumes and essences and - concludes Coldiretti - use appropriate clothing (hats, T-shirts, glasses).
Ma why are these foods particularly suitable for tanning?
For their high content of vitamin A, which stimulates the production of melanin, thus favoring a natural tan.
At the first place of the Coldiretti ranking we find once again the carrots, natural bronzer par excellence, which they contain 1200 micrograms of vitamin A (or equivalent quantities of carotenes) per 100 grams of pulp.
In second place there are i radicchio, which contain about half, while the third le apricots, immediately followed by chicory, lettuce, yellow melon and celery, peppers, tomatoes, but also yellow peaches, watermelons, strawberries and cherries, which however show high contents of vitamin A or carotenes.
THE TOP TEN OF HEALTH TINTARELLA - Vitamin A (*)
- Carrots 1200
- Radicchi 500-600
- Apricots 350-500
- Chicory and lettuce 220-260
- Yellow melons 200
- Celery 200
- Peppers 100-150
- Tomatoes 50-100
- Peaches 100
- Watermelons and cherries 20-40
(*) in micrograms of Vitamin A or in equivalent quantities of carotenes per 100 grams of edible part
Source: Coldiretti elaborations
Furthermore, the regular and abundant consumption of fruit and vegetables, rich in vitamins and minerals, helps the body to stay in shape and to fight free radicals deriving from sun exposure.
In short, the fruit and vegetables (and in particular the foods that fall into the Coldiretti top ten) are real panacea, because they nourish, quench thirst, replenish the mineral salts lost with sweat, replenish vitamins, regulate the intestine (thanks to the presence of fibers) and counteract the action of free radicals.
Go ahead and then a fruit salads, smoothies and salads, especially if based on raw vegetables!
Verdiana Amorosi
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