Have you been overlooking the daily intake of essential nutrients? Pack your plate with colorful foods, generally vegetables and fruits with necessary antioxidants, vitamins, and fewer calories. The nutrients present in these colorful fruits and vegetables play an important role in maintaining good health. Take a positive step toward improving your health by increasing the number of colorful fruits and vegetables in your diet (1).

This article has listed different colors of vegetables and their nutrients that give them their color in detail. Read on!

Color of Fruits and Vegetables and Benefits:

The colors of fruits and vegetables are not just for decorative purposes but also indicate different nutrients. So, let us analyze the colors of vegetables, fruits and what their nutrients mean.

1. Purple/Blue Color Fruits and Vegetables :

The blue to the purple hue of these fruits and vegetables comes from anthocyanins, a phytonutrient. This flavonoid helps protect the vegetables from UV rays.

Benefits of eating Purple/Blue colored fruits and vegetables:

• Vegetables and fruits of blue/ purple color help prevent chronic health conditions like cancer, stroke, and heart disease.
• The purple/blue vegetables regulate healthy digestion by protecting urinary tract health.
• These fruits and vegetables promote healthy aging and are advantageous for your memory.
• The fruits and vegetables that are blue/purple in color help control obesity and help promote a healthy body (2).

Nutrients:

• Phytonutrients called Anthocyanins (3).
• Carotenoids.
• Vitamin C.
• Fiber.
• Ellagic Acid (4).

Purple/Blue Colored Fruits: Blueberries, Blackberries, Figs, Raisins, Plums, Purple grapes.

Purple/Blue Colored Vegetables: Purple cabbage, Purple potatoes, Eggplant.

2. Red Color Fruits and Vegetables :

Red-colored fruits and vegetables are nature’s gift to us that offers several health benefits with their nutrition.