The benefits of antioxidants

If you’re looking for information about healthy eating, you’ll quickly come across the word “antioxidants. Always wanted to know exactly what the health benefits of antioxidants are? Below you can read more about what antioxidants do for your health and how you can easily ingest them with shots and juices.

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants is a collective term for various nutrients, including vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Some examples of antioxidants include vitamins C and E, riboflavin (or vitamin B2), zinc and selenium. You can find these nutrients in various fruits, including citrus fruits, berries of all kinds and pomegranate, among others. But you also find many antioxidants in vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, beets and carrots. In addition, you can find them in spices such as cinnamon, vanilla, cloves and licorice.

Are antioxidants healthy?

In the right form and amount, antioxidants can be healthy. To understand why, it’s important to know what they do in your body. The main function of antioxidants is to trap free radicals. These are created by oxidation; a process caused by oxygen in our bodies. Through various harmful influences such as smoke, chemicals, pollution, heavy metals and unhealthy food, oxygen compounds are created. From these come molecules that can be harmful to your cells. These are called free radicals. Antioxidants help fight these free radicals and thus prevent damage.

What are the main health benefits of antioxidants?

Antioxidants are healthy because they help prevent damage to cells and tissues by fighting free radicals. In this way, among other things, they help protect against harmful external influences, such as air pollution and UV radiation. So making sure you get enough antioxidants is a good way to help your cells and tissues stay healthy.

What do antioxidants do for your skin?

Antioxidants can also protect against free radicals in the tissues of your skin. These can arise from air pollution and UV radiation, among other things. So a diet with enough antioxidants is a good way to care for and protect the healthy cells and tissues in your skin from the inside out.

What are the benefits of antioxidant juice?

At Sapje, you can buy a variety of antioxidant juices. This is because we believe that juices and shots made with vegetables, fruits and spices are a fantastic way to make sure you get enough antioxidants. Because we slow-juice the antioxidant-rich vegetables, fruits and spices, we can guarantee that many of the original antioxidants reach the juice. Quick freezing of the vegetable juice right after pressing also ensures that you get plenty of antioxidants with our juice. In fact, this is the best and most natural way to preserve nutrients. Moreover, with a bottle of vegetable juice from Sapje, you get about 400 vegetables full of antioxidants without any effort. Just think how difficult it usually is to eat a similar amount and variety of vegetables in a day! Some examples of antioxidant juice from our range include Sunny, Recover and Wild. The latter two include wild-picked berries. These are known as natural antioxidant bombs!

How do you take full advantage of antioxidants in fruit?

Several fruits are known for their high antioxidant value. These include strawberries and raspberries, grapes and citrus fruits. But especially various types of berries and also the pomegranate score high when it comes to the amount of natural antioxidants. Now it is not always easy to obtain and prepare these fruits. Therefore, at Sapje we have developed an antioxidant shot that brings together the most antioxidant-rich fruits.

Our antioxidant shot includes pomegranate and a host of wild-picked berries, such as black currants, foxberries and sea buckthorn berries. This gives you the very best of nature. No wonder, then, that this concentrated drink has an antioxidant list that is second to none! To make this antioxidant list even more impressive, we have added spices to this shot that are also packed with antioxidants, such as cloves, cinnamon, vanilla and licorice. This shot in our opinion is the best way to take full advantage of antioxidants in fruits and spices. Want to experience this for yourself? You can order this shot full of antioxidants here! If you order our juice cure, it includes several shots and several vegetable juices, full of antioxidants.