Fruit Salad Recipes

Chickpea Green salad with Pears and Beets

Fruit Salad Recipe: Pear, Beets and Garbanzo bean Green salad

When it comes to healthy fruits to eat, majority think of apples right away and overlook the sweet, buttery soft fruit like pears. In fact, pears are just as much healthy and nutritional as apples. Pears are considered as hypo-allergic fruits which are less likely to produce allergic reaction. It is a safe fruit to introduce to infants. Pears are also perfect for keeping your diet and your diabetes in check because they are high in fiber and low glycemic index which makes you feel fuller for a longer time and help control appetite. Like many other fruits, pears contain an abundant of antioxidants to eliminate the free radicals that accumulate in the body following cellular metabolism. These free radicals mutate healthy cell DNA into cancerous cells, and can cause a number of other devastating conditions. Therefore, antioxidant components found in pears like vitamin C, vitamin A, flavonoid compounds like beta-carotene, lutein and zea-xanthin can seriously help rid the body of these dangerous compounds.

Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) are high in insoluble fiber so it can help you control your craving for food, which in turn keeps your weight gain in check. Chickpea is an excellent source of protein, a perfect protein choice to lower your bad cholesterol (LDL) level to prevent heart diseases.

These 2 main ingredients for this salad is like a plate of good health you can give to your body to prevent and combat diseases.