Green Leaves, Abundant Source of Vitamin C and Essential Fatty Acids
Most People do Not Eat Enough Fresh Foods
By Viola Woolcott
Raw, freshly picked green leaves are an extremely good abundant source of Vitamin C.
Depending on how it is done, cooking, drying, wilting as well as storing the picked leaves in a warm place destroys much or even all of the Vitamin C.
For the function of the immune system and tissue repair Vitamin C is very important. Vitamin C also acts as an antioxidant and is present in all living and actively metabolising plants and that not just in the leaves. It is made in large quantities when the seeds germinate and will not be present in dormant seeds.
Because most people do not eat enough fresh raw foods, they tend to be most certainly short of Vitamin C.
The leaves are very low in fats, but the small amount they contain tends to be made of the essential fatty acids linoleum and alpha-linoleum acid which are vital in making cell membranes and for the health of the immune system.
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Filed under: Health and Diet on December 9th, 2007
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