What are some immunity-boosting fruits

Currently, there is no special fruit that can directly "significantly improve immunity." Most of the categories that are helpful for immune regulation are rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, flavonoids, and beta carotene that are closely related to the operation of immune function. The fresh dates, prickly pears, kiwis, blueberries, mangoes, and strawberries that we often eat fall into this category.

Speaking of which, in the first two years when I was working in the new media industry, I always stayed up late to catch up on plans. I would always catch colds and fevers when the seasons changed. During that time, I listened to the advice of my nutritionist friend and did not follow the trend and buy the "immunity-specific fruits" that were so popular online. I just ate two kinds of seasonal fruits every day. I took two pounds of crispy and sweet winter dates with me on the way to get off work in autumn. When I'm hungry in the afternoon, I eat two as a snack. In the summer, I freeze a box of blueberries and grab a handful while watching TV shows. In the winter, I peel a juicy mandarin orange after lunch. I stick to it for about half a year, and the frequency of colds has indeed dropped a lot. Of course, I have also changed my bad habit of staying up late at the same time. It is definitely not all due to the fruit.

I have read a lot of popular science before that lemon is the "King of Vitamin C". To be honest, it is really a misunderstanding. I checked the Chinese food ingredient list and found that the vitamin C content per 100 grams of fresh dates is almost 10 times that of lemons. Even ordinary green kiwis have more than three times the vitamin C content than lemons. If you really want to supplement vitamin C, chewing two fresh dates is much more useful than making a large glass of lemonade without even touching the pulp.

Speaking of this, some people will definitely mention the prickly pear, which has become very popular recently. Many merchants say that drinking prickly pear juice can prevent colds and quickly improve immunity. I have also bought a few bottles and tasted them. I frowned because of the sourness. Objectively speaking, its vitamin C content is indeed the highest among existing common fruits. It’s sharp, but if you usually eat one pound of vegetables and half a pound of fruits every day, the effect of drinking it is actually not that obvious. On the contrary, for people who usually eat takeout and rarely come across fresh fruits and vegetables, drinking it appropriately to supplement vitamin C is really helpful for stabilizing immunity.

Many people think that the more expensive imported fruits are more effective in improving immunity. I have followed the trend and bought imported raspberries and blackberries worth hundreds of yuan per pound. Later, I compared the nutrition tables and found that the flavonoid content of local seasonal strawberries and hawthorns is no lower than that of imported products. Moreover, freshly picked fruits are high in freshness and have less nutrient loss. Calculated, they are much more cost-effective.

By the way, don’t take fruit as medicine. I once saw a netizen eating 3 pounds of kiwi fruit a day in order to improve his immunity. In the end, he ended up in the hospital with acid reflux and stomach pain. It is completely unnecessary. Our immunity is like a guard in the body. The nutrients in these fruits are only daily supplies for the guard. If you stay up late every day and eat high-fat and high-sugar meals, even if you soak in fruits every day, the guard will not be able to handle it by "staying up late and working overtime" every day, right?