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10 foods you should eat every day

Stock your kitchen with these super foods to ensure your diet is packed with antioxidants, fibre and other healthy properties

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Adapted from Food Cures (Reader's Digest); available in the Best Health shop now.

Blueberries

Blueberries have more antioxidants—those magical molecules that can help prevent a host of maladies—than 40 other common fruits and vegetables tested.

The antioxidant plant pigments that make blueberries blue guard against heart disease, cancer and age-related blindness and memory loss. They’re also tops when it comes to preventing urinary tract infections, thanks to antioxidant epicatechins, which keep bacteria from sticking to bladder walls.

How much? 1/2 cup (125 mL) of blueberries equals one fruit and vegetable serving per day.

Tip: Sprinkle blueberries on your pancakes at the last minute—cooking the berries destroys valuable vitamin C.

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4 Comments

@Wynn
The best way to drink your tea to get all the health benefits from it is without milk. The proteins in milk kill some of the healthy properties of tea and prevent your body from absorbing them.

Submitted by amanda on Thu, 2011-06-30 11:36am.

I drink my tea with milk (English style). Is this still beneficial?

Submitted by wynn on Wed, 2011-06-29 12:38pm.

Too bad blueberries that you purchase at the grocery store (along with many other foods) contain over 40 pesticides including 24 hormone disruptors! Unless you buy organic of course.

Submitted by pookie on Wed, 2011-06-29 9:06am.

Blueberries are good for you if they're organic or wild from uncontaminated land. The product showing up in grocery stores now probably comes from commercial plantations that started up to take advantage of high demand. Those blueberries will be heavily saturated with herbicides, pesticides and chemical fertilizers which negate the healthful benefits of the fruit. Why eat low grade food to save a couple of dollars?

Submitted by James on Tue, 2011-06-28 11:19pm.