Sentences with phrase «deep orange vegetables»

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Researchers find BCX — red pigment abundant in sweet red peppers, paprika, winter and butternut squash, oranges, and tangerines, among other foods — appears to counteract nicotine's ability to accelerate the growth of lung tumors.Photo credit: IngimageXiang - Dong Wang, a cancer researcher at Tufts University, has spent a long time trying to figure out why carotenoids, the main pigments providing colors that range from yellow and pink to deep orange and red in most fruits and vegetables, seem to keep chronic diseases at bay.

«The carotenes... are the main source of vitamin A.» Basic Food Chemistry by Frank E. Lee, PhD «Yellow, deep orange / red and dark green vegetables and fruits... are high in vitamin A...

It is found concentrated in deep orange and green vegetables (the green chlorophyll covers up the orange pigment).

Eat a variety of colored vegetables and fruits like a rainbow such as yellow, orange, blue, purple and deep, dark greens.