Health Benefits - vitamins and minerals in fruits

• Fruits are low in calories and fat and are a source of simple sugars, fiber and vitamins which are essential for optimizing our health.
• Fruits provide plenty of soluble dietary fiber which helps to ward of cholesterol and fats from the body and to get relief from constipation as well.
• Fruits contain many anti-oxidants like poly-phenolic flavonoids, vitamin-C, anthocyanins. These compounds, firstly, help body protect from oxidant stress, diseases and cancers, and secondly, help body develop capacity to fight against these ailments by boosting our immunity level.
• Fruit’s health benefiting properties are because of their richness in vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients, anti-oxidants which helps body prevent or at least prolong the natural changes of aging by protecting and rejuvenating cells, tissues and organs in the human body.
• You are protecting yourself from minor problems like wrinkling of skin, hair fall, memory loss to major ailments like age related macular degeneration of retina in the eyes.

Here is the list of fruits with their health benefits and nutrition facts:

Apple			Banana
BlackBerries			Grapes
Guava			Lychee
Mango	Orange	Papaya	Peach
Pears			Pineapple
Plum			Pomegrante
Strawberries			Watermelon