The Grapefruit Diet: Try Red Grapefruit
If in the Grapefruit Diet and the New Grapefruit Diet, grapefruit seemed “unattractive” for weight loss purposes – there are other reasons to have it in your diet.
A medium-size grapefruit contains 78% of recommended daily value for Vitamin C. It is also a good source of lycopene (1419 mcg). If you ever wondered why some grapefruits come in red and pinks color, it is due to lycopene content.
Lycopene is a carotenoid similar in structure to carotene, which may help prevent different kinds of cancer.
But do not just grab any grapefruit. According to a study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry (2006, vol. 54), red grapefruit could lower total cholesterol by 15%, “bad” (LDL) cholesterol by 20%, and triglycerides by 17%.
White grapefruit also lowered cholesterol and triglycerides levels, but the red variety was more than twice as effective.
Those who ate no grapefruit at all had no changes in their blood work. The researchers also noticed that white and red grapefruits managed to raise blood levels of antioxidants.
If for nothing else, for the love of your cholesterol, it seems prudent to add red grapefruits to our diet.
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