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Superfoods: Eat to Beat Winter Colds

Our bloggers The Food Fairies pick their top nutritional favourites for boosting your immunity

Hand Me a Mushroom
Sniffles and sneezes provide the soundtrack to the tube during the winter months. It is the time of year when our inner army of defence troops march forth to conquer, but are they fighting a losing battle if they are not equipped with suitable armour? When you feel like you’ve been hit by the flu fairy, do you reach for that vitamin C-stuffed carton of orange juice? Well then you may be stumbling at the first hurdle! Vitamin C is an immune savvy staple, but citrus fruits such as oranges are not great sources. You are much better off nibbling on a red pepper or some broccoli! Plus, orange juice is crammed with as much sugar as a can of cola, which is your immune system’s arch rival!

Citrus fruits have a cooling effect on the body too, so for the sake of your heating bill, stick to warming spices and fruits such as ginger, chillies, apples and pears! But lemons are such good company for your liver that you should be slicing them into drinks year-through.

Fresh made chicken soup is like swallowing a hug. Add a generous helping of shiitake and miitake mushrooms to the pot as these oriental ‘shrooms contain beta glucans and other powerful immune modulating compounds.

Add lots fresh garlic to the mix and you’ll be a force to be reckoned with!

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Rachel Henderson & Lola Renton are leading UK nutritionists, who have released their first exclusive anti-ageing and weight loss eBook, ‘Beauty & The Feast.’

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Article by

The Food Fairies

Rachel Henderson & Lola Renton are leading UK nutritionists, who have released their first exclusive anti-ageing and weight loss eBook, ‘Beauty & The Feast.’

Discover more