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You Ask, I Answer: Colorful Fruits and Vegetables

Posted Mar 25 2010 10:00pm

WintersquashApart from bananas , what other fruits and vegetables contain the cool-sounding phytonutrient delphinidin?  I don’t want to assume white just because it is bananas.

– Brandon (last name unknown)
(Location Unknown

In light of your post about specific vegetable servings , what are examples of orange vegetables, besides carrots? Do sweet potatoes or winter squash count?

– Purnima Anand
New York, NY

Brandon: Delphinidin, which has been studied extensively and shown to be a powerful chemopreventive phytonutrient (meaning it is quite powerful at squashing tumor cells), is also prevalent in blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, elderberries, raspberries, and strawberries.

Start your day off with a blueberry-banana-strawberry shake and you’ll get your delphinidin on!

Purnima: The following vegetables are categorized as “orange vegetables”.  The classification is, of course, based on color, but also on the specific phytonutrients, antioxidants, and carotenoids these foods offer:

  • Acorn squash
  • Butternut squash
  • Carrots
  • Hubbard squash
  • Pumpkin
  • Rutabaga
  • Sweet potatoes
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