The reasons are plentiful why consuming mostly plant-based foods are better for you than eating animal-based. Lower cost, healthier nutrition, sustainability are just a few. Even so, the majority of the world’s population consume a primarily meat-based diet.
There are so many health benefits that come from eating a variety of vegetables, seeds, nuts, lentils, etc. Focusing on one single feature of plant-based choices that is truly worth noting is the presence of nitrates. These simple compounds that also occur naturally in the human body are made up of nitrogen and oxygen.
Nitrates were associated with alarm because they are added to cured and processed meats to keep them red and prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. However, these added nitrates to meats can convert into carcinogenic compounds.
The nitrates naturally present in vegetables such as leafy greens and beets do not turn into harmful compounds due to the presence of plant antioxidants and phytonutrients. Instead, plant nitrates are converted to beneficial nitric oxide that supports circulation and cardiovascular health. That’s the important plant-based difference of nitrates.
When you eat a mostly plant-based diet, you give your body a wealth of beneficial nutrition that includes plant nitrates. And supplementing your wholesome food intake with the concentrated juice powders of barley leaves, beets and carrots in the Garden Trio or the chocolaty leafy green powders in CoCoa LeafGreens increases that wealth. Making your body rich with nutrition is healthy wealth!
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