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so recently someone brought up a

question they wanted to get the benefit

of all these phytonutrients but they

don’t like to consume cruciferous

vegetables so I wanted to do a quick

video just to explain that because you

don’t have to consume cruciferous

vegetables now the benefit of

cruciferous is the amount of

phytonutrients but those photo nutrients

are in all vegetables and fruits and

berries so I’m going to talk about plant

pigments in general the the things that

give different plants their color so you

have all these different vegetables that

are yellow red orange green purple and

the plants purpose of these pigments is

to protect them against viruses bacteria

microorganisms as well as UV radiation

all these plants are involved in

photosynthesis so you have the sunlight

that combines with the plant to create

all these different chemical reactions

and of course you’re doing with

radiation so part of the function of

these pigments is to protect the plant

against the harmful part of that

radiation but the cool thing is you can

get protection against the UV radiation

from the Sun as well if you consume some

of these vegetables so let’s talk about

a few of them okay so yellow squash for

example so I went to the farmers market

this weekend and I bought some squash

and we sauteed it with some butter sea

salt

it was delicious but these yellow

pigments have the ability to stimulate T

cells and B cells within the immune

system and decrease the risk of certain

types of cancer so I’m not going to get

into the chemical names of these

phytonutrients the carotenoids like

lutein things like that all you need to

know is that the different colors have

different chemical phytonutrients that

give different effects

so like the red pigment and tomatoes for

example can decrease risk of certain

types of cancer to the lung heart and

prostate then you have the orange

pigment which is like the pre vitamin A

which can then turn into the active form

of vitamin A retinol but in like egg

yolks for example you have the active

form which happens to be orange and

yellow then we have the green pigment

which is in all the leafy greens the

wheatgrass which has an ability to

repair two

in a and decrease the risk of certain

types of cancer then we have the purple

pigment which is an eggplant cabbage

it’s antibacterial antiviral have the

ability to detoxify the liver and will

decrease your risk for cancer

so the basic purpose of these colorful

pigments are to help the plant survive

but when we consume them we can also

survive better thanks for watching we

have purple pigments which would be an

eggplant it would be in which has

properties of anti cabbage cabbage okay

so now I got to wait till I stop the

hiccups

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