Eating clementines every day is excellent for your health! This citrus fruit has many benefits, quite useful for fighting winter viruses.
Clementine is a citrus fruit rich in vitamin C ! An ideal fruit to boost our immune system during the winter. But clementine has many other benefits. First of all, this fruit is a low in calories. No risk of gaining weight by snacking on clementines during the day. And thanks to its high intake of vitamin C (around 50 mg), our body is boosted both physically and mentally. Our immune defenses are strengthened, very useful during winter when many viruses circulate.
In addition to protecting against cellular aging, clementines contain carotenoids, transformed into vitamin A by our body. Vitamin A helps fight against cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, clementine is rich in soft fibers, favorable for good intestinal transit. Experts therefore recommend eat two clementines a day, in order to obtain the 100 mg of vitamin C essential for the proper functioning of our body.
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Foods rich in vitamin C
And for good reason, our body does not have the capacity to synthesize vitamin C itself, yet essential for its proper functioning. Hence the importance of obtaining this active ingredient in food. Vitamin C is found in other citrus fruits like lemons and oranges. But other foods contain a lot of it like guava, black currant, fresh parsley, fresh thyme, chili pepper, kale, bell pepper, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kiwi, collard greens, papaya , strawberry, or even pineapple.
Vitamin C is lost very quickly during cooking, especially when boiling. To ingest as much as possible, you should therefore eat these foods raw if possible, or cook them for as little time as possible. For information, clementine comes from the clementine tree, a hybrid tree resulting from the cross between the mandarin tree and the orange tree. It was discovered in 1902 by Father Clément in Oran, Algeria. And what is the difference between clementine and tangerine? The tangerine is larger and contains seeds. However, the tangerine is more fragrant than the clementine but also more difficult to peel.
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