Now time to get to it, your power list of best fruits for glowing skin, these 7 clear skin diet fruits are yummy and great for you. You can have your fruit and eat it. No guilt, only happiness. Yes please.
1. GRAPEFRUIT
41 calories a low glycemic index and over 50-70% of your daily recommended vitamin C intake. 1 juicy grapefruit a day can make a huge difference on your journey to glowing skin. Rather than reaching for an orange which is medium to high in sugars, switch your go to vitamin C boost for grapefruit.
2.TOMATOES/TOMATO PASTE
Nom, nom, nom. Tomatoes are a health fruit in vegetable disguise. And eating enough of them, will help bring your skin a powerful antioxidant boost able to protect your skin against damaging UV light.
3. STRAWBERRIES
Bright red summer loving fruits for glowing skin – gotcha. Strawberries are low in glycemic index and very low in glycemic load meaning their sugar is slow
4.CHERRIES
They taste too good to be great for you but trust me my friend, cherries are a fab fruit for glowing skin. They rank with a very low 20 on the glycemic index ruler (which goes up to 100) and a 6 on the glycemic load scale which is also considered low. Cherries have natural sugar they can channel the right way. Gradual battery releases instead of the rollercoaster kind.
Cherries too are a powerful source of antioxidants. Notice something here? Fruits my friend are anti-ageing power banks sat ready and waiting for you to borrow from.
5.DRIED APRICOTS
Most of the time dried fruits are a glowing skin no-no. When fruits get dried their sugar concentration rises to skyscraper levels – dates and rasins we’re looking at you. However dried apricots bend this rule being low in glycemic index and glycemic load.
And eating them in their dried form is actually a great choice, as to avoid bruising in transport apricots have to be picked so young important skin loving antioxidants and minerals haven’t yet had a chance to develop.
Apricots are an important source of copper and 1 serving will have you a fourth of your daily needs. Copper is a metal – which sounds weird for your skin to need ‘eh. There are many metals your body must have in small, trace amounts. Copper is one for glowing skin.
Your skin needs copper to stay healthy, heal, make collagen and stop and reverse inflammation. Or in human speak, your skin needs copper to glow. Dried apricots are a definite yes on our best fruits for glowing skin list.
6. BLACKBERRIES
Blackberries are also a great fruit for glowing skin as they’re an important source of vitamin C, vitamin K and manganese. Vitamin C’s fabulous for collagen building, vitamin K’s great for helping skin heal plus evening skin tone and manganese (yup, another trace metal) is needed by your body to make the super important antioxidant manganese superoxide dismutase enzymes– read anti-ageing.
Blackberry fruits for glowing skin are a very definite yes please.
7. AVOCADO
I know, I know, you probably don’t think about these green gods like a fruit – but they have a seed, so avocado also makes our best fruits for glowing skin list. Avocados also make a great add-in for breakfast fruit smoothies. Fats are very important food for healthy skin. Adding them to your AM wake-me-up brekkie’s like making medicine for your complexion.
Avocados are a great source of anti-inflammatory fats, vitamin B3, B5, B6 and folate.
You’ll even find vitamin b5 as pro-vitamin B5 (aka it needs to be broken down to make vitamin B5) in skincare as panthenol where it can help speed up your skin metabolism and help keep your skin hydrated and glowy.
Vitamin B6 helps balance sebum production. Fellow oily/combination skin types – avocados are a great fruit for glowing skin.