Healthy Eating for Sensitive Stomachs

What are Benefits Eating Sunflower Seeds?

That’s an easy one to answer. This inexpensive seed is packed with nutrients. And that is so good for you.   The benefits eating Sunflower seeds are many and varied.  These seeds are an outstanding source of vitamin E and will easily provide your dietary vitamin E requirement.   Vitamin E functions as an antioxidant. Vitamin E helps to reduce inflammation and promotes a healthy immune system.

Sunflower seeds also provide a nice amount of folate, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin B6, zinc, protein, and fiber and essential linoleic acid. The healthy fats in these seeds can also keep your appetite more regular and like all seeds they contain a concentration of nutrients.

Heart Healthy

Sunflower seeds can keep hearts healthy and cholesterol levels low. That’s because these seeds have a high fat content that’s good for the body.

How do I add Sunflower Seeds to my diet?

You can sprinkle a tablespoon of these over yogurt or even in a bowl of hot oatmeal. They also add a delicious flavor when sprinkled on top of a green salad at lunch. It gives it an extra crunch and adds a good splash of healthy fat. It just makes salad a bit more interesting.  If you opt for premade packs of these check the salt content. I like them freshly toasted with no salt. This seed is fun to eat. I sometimes eat them by the handful. But I’ve learned writing this post that as with everything, we should be moderate since they are high in calories.

Where do you get these healthy seeds?

You can buy them from the bulk seed section at the Grocery store. If you buy the raw shelled ones, it’s easy to see and smell if they are fresh or not.

If you buy them in bulk in the shells, make sure they have clean unbroken shells. Make sure they are crisp and don’t smell old.   If you buy them already shelled, make sure to buy from a store that carries fresh often refilled seed bins.

How do I prepare these?

Place shelled sunflower seeds into a baking pan or on a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 425 on the broil setting. Put the pan half filled with these little seeds and wait 7 to 10 minutes or when you smell a wonderful toasty smell mmm wonderful to smell. Then take the pan out stir to mix, then put back in the oven,   wait just a few more minutes, remove from oven, make sure most are toasted just a bit.  (If you prefer you can also toast on the stovetop by heating on low in a saucepan and stirring occasionally for about 5 to 7 minutes.)  Careful these are so addictive and with no salt. Of course, you can lightly add salt if you like.  But Sunflower seeds taste great just toasted with nothing on them. You can snack on these if you’re craving something salty or chip like. This does away with that craving. Sunflower seeds will also keep you full.

More Sunflower Seed Tips

Try adding to muffins, breads or in cookie recipes. Do you sauté veggies on the stove top? If so then sprinkle some toasted seeds on these.

Why not try these raw or toasted? And please do let me know what you think by leaving a note below.

Benefits eating Strawberries, what are they?

Strawberries, Strawberries, who needs to be convinced of the benefits eating strawberries?  Fresh strawberries are a sweet favorite.  They smell great so the anticipation of eating them is the singular thought of oh yum Strawberries.   I like to think of them as miniature apples, not for any reason but that when I pick them up they are as beautiful as any apple, if not more.  But I like both.

Strawberries are delicious  in a particularly strawberry way.  They taste great mixed into yogurt or oatmeal.  You can also blend them into a smoothie.  They are also really great added into salads. I mix them into any type of salad, but they are most always found in spinach salads. But whatever salad you decide to drop them into will just be enhanced.

Low in Sugar

The benefits of eating strawberries starts with the fact that they are amazingly low in suger.  I eat them right out of the refrigerator.  I might grab one as I prepare  breakfast or just munch on one before dinner.

Make sure when you get them home, to rinse them in water with just a little vinegar to help make sure they are clean.  Washing them in this mix also helps to keep them fresh longer.  But do enjoy these sweet jewels anytime of the day as a great breakfast item, an afternoon snack or before dinner snack.  It’s one of the most beautiful packages of vitamin C,  I can think of.

Nutrition, benefits of eating strawberries

Strawberries are rich in these essential nutrients:

• vitamin C,
• potassium,
• folic acid, and
• fiber.

More nutritional benefits:

One cup of fresh strawberries contains 160 percent of the daily recommended quantity of vitamin C for only 50 calories.  Strawberries boosts immunity.  They promote eye health.  They also fight bad cholesterol and may help to reduce inflammation.  Strawberries regulate blood pressure because of their potassium content.

These sweet beautiful berries are just packed with nutrients and are so delicious.  They also aid in weight management, since they are naturally low in calories, fat-free and low in sodium.

This delightful fruit has so many more benefits not mentioned here.  Enjoy these in moderation.  But why not add this lovely fruit to your healthy eating routine.

Thanks for visiting my website, come back often.  Please drop me a comment below.