Q. Should I buy white peaches/nectarines, or yellow? Are purple and yellow carrots a better choice than orange? How much does color matter, nutritionally, and how do I choose?
Whether today’s peach is white or yellow does not matter, as long as you are eating a rainbow of produce overall.
A. Jeffrey B. Blumberg, PhD, a professor at the Friedman School and an expert on dietary bioactive components, answers: “The color of a plant food is a clue to which health-promoting phytochemicals it contains: ➧ Blue and purple (e.g.: blueberries, plums, black beans, eggplant) indicates the presence of anthocyanins ➧ Green colors (e.g.: asparagus, broccoli, […]
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