Health Benefits of Apricots

Health Benefits of Apricots

Being yellow or orange fruit apricot belongs to the family which is known as Rosacea prunus. Though the fruit is small in size, it is covered with velvet like skin which smooth and soft to touch. This fruit can be consumed either in fresh or in dried condition. The nutritional value remains unchanged in the both conditions. This fruit is most popularly used as a food substance in the following countries: North America, South America and New Zealand etc. It is recently reported that the fruit has enough capability to provide many health benefits to us. 

Some of the most common health which we can avail by adding this fruit in our diet chart is described in brief in the following:

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•      Good for eye: It is recently reported by the research workers that apricot is highly beneficial for the proper maintenance of the ophthalmic growth of the human. It plays an important role in the prevention of the macular degradation which is a well-known dis-order of the human eye arose usually in the older age. Thus the apricot not only prevents anyone from the loss of the sight in their older age but also it has enough capability to strengthen the optic nerves. Being a reservoir of Vitamin A and Beta Carotene it has enough capability to prevent another major eye disorder which is known as Neovascular ARMD.
• ·         Rich source of antioxidants:  Being a rich source of anti-oxidants, this fruit helps us to get rid of the formation of free radicals which usually formed by occurrence of the severalbiochemical reactions. The toxin-elimination rate also gets increased by the presence of high amount of anti-oxidants.
• ·         High fibre content: Being a rich source of dietary fibre, this fruit not only helps us in the proper absorption of the nutrients but also keeps us safe from the several kinds of gastro intestinal disorders.
• ·         Reduces Cholesterol: As this fruit has rich amount of fibre that’s why this fruit helps us to reduce the amount of LDL (which is known as bad cholesterol). In this way it indirectly keeps our heart healthy as LDL cholesterol is bad for our heart.
• ·         Maintains blood pressure level: This fruit has enough capability to supply high amount potassium in the human blood. The supplied potassium interacts with sodium ions which are present in the plasma, thus maintain the blood pressure level in our body.
• ·         Lowers the risk of cancer: As apricot reduces the amount of free radicals in the blood of us that’s why the chance of getting affected by cancer reduces. As the free radicals play an important role in the replacement of the proper structure of the DNA thus results in the unnatural grow of the cell that’s why reduction of the amount of free radicals lowers the risk of getting affected by cancer also.
• ·         Skin Benefits: As high amount of vitamin A , Vitamin C and phytonutrients present in the apricot, it keeps our skin healthy if present in our diet chart.