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Love eating out?
What do you like the most, junk food or desi delicacies?
Well, whatever you like, make sure you take care of yourself, or else you will regret it later.
When it comes to taking care of yourself, if you don’t make the effort or take the time to work on your own, you will be forced to do so later. Being Pakistani, we should be thankful to Allah Almighty that we made it through the Covid-19 crisis without critical losses, and one of the best ways to thank your god for your health is taking good care of it.
But how can you do it? Well, for starters you can make some healthy changes in your daily diet.
Your Introduction to Organic Food and Immunity Booster Foods
The term organic refers to how a food item is produced. More specifically, the food being grown or farmed without the use of any Hormones, Antibiotics, Artificial Chemicals, or Genetically Modified Organisms.
Organic foods are free of all these artificial additives, which also include preservatives, sweeteners, coloring, flavoring, and monosodium glutamate (MSG).
Organically grown crops require natural fertilizers to improve plant growth, they are not given any artificial chemicals or preservatives. These foods are produced using only natural substances, and they contain more nutrients than processed ones, nutrients like antioxidants, vitamins, and immunity-boosting properties.
Immunity Booster
Any food that helps strengthen your body’s defenses against infections and ailments, or helps keep your body in overall good health is an immunity booster food.
These foods help the body fight against disease-causing pathogens as they provide your body with any nutrition it needs to defend itself. Immunity booster foods release hormones and chemicals that strengthen the immune system.
The immune system works to find an infection and it responds to help restore your body to its normal function. Moreover, your body’s ability to fight off harmful pathogens depends on what you do to keep your immune system in shape. This is where immunity booster foods come into play, they have several benefits including:
- Strengthen the Body’s Defenses
- Slows Down Aging Process
- Fulfill Your Body’s Nutritional Requirements
- Improves Your Healing Ability
- Boosts Overall Energy Levels
- Helps Fight Against Autoimmune Diseases
- Improves Your Health Management
Types of Immunity Boost Foods
Following, we will describe the common immunity-boosting foods available in Pakistan, including their definition, benefits, and instructions on how to buy them.
1. Honey
Helpful for: Eye Diseases, Throat Infection, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Constipation, Eczema, Ulcers, etc.
Honey comes rich in phytonutrients (especially unfiltered and unpasteurized), responsible for antifungal, antibacterial, and antioxidant properties. Organic honey has excellent immune-boosting capabilities, along with anti-cancer properties. Processing honey can destroy these useful properties. Following, we will describe some additional benefits of using honey:
- Help fulfill Your Nutrient Requirements
- Rich in Antioxidants
- Maintains Blood Sugar Levels
- Improves Overall Heart Health
- Improves Healing Ability of the Body
What to Look For When Buying?
- Go for Raw or Unpasteurized Honey (Free from Tampering, Heating, and Processing)
- Buy Creamed honey, derived via crystallization of honey process resulting in a thicker and richer texture
- Look for honey packed in glass jars as it improves shelf life
- Read the Label and account for the ingredients, and make sure it’s free from HFCS or other additives
2. Saffron
Helpful for: Nervous System Disorders, Sexual Issues, Depression, and Mental Issues
Extracted from Crocus Sativa, Saffron is the post-processed stigma of the Crocus flower once the extracts have been dried off. The process leaves saffron with rich color, texture, and aroma. Used as a delicacy for seasoning and its natural color, saffron has several health benefits including:
- Excellent Antioxidant Properties
- Protects against Nervous System Disorders
- Improves Mood and Libido
- Improves Weight Loss
- Fights off PMS Symptoms
What to Look For When Buying?
- Check the threads (stigmas) and assure all are red, there is no other color
- The threads must be dry and brittle
- The aroma should be strong and fresh, avoid a musty aroma
3. Salajeet (Shilajit)
Helpful for: Alzheimer’s disease, Liver Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Cardiac Issues, and Infertility Issues.
Shilajit is a sticky substance found in mountain life rocks (especially Himalayas), and it develops over centuries from the slow decomposition of plants. Shilajit is mainly used in traditional medicine and it’s an effective and safe supplement that has positive effects on your overall health, including the following:
- Helps Manage Diabetes
- Prevents Constipation, and suppresses toxic bacteria in the gut
- Reduces Stress and Anxiety Levels
- Improves Overall Cardiac Health
- Slows Down Aging Process
What to Look For When Buying?
- Check Grade and Source (Prefer Red, Gold, Black, Gray, and Brown Rock), Avoid 5th Grade
- See Where Shilajeet is sourced from! Ideally, it should be from Mountain life
- Purified Using spring water filtering technique
- Check testing information and heavy metal traces
- Value Brand Accountability
4. Fig
Helpful for: Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Fertility, and Digestive Issues
Fig is a power food (fruit) that resembles a teardrop and is about the size of a thumb. These fruits are made with several tiny seeds and have a mild sweet taste.
What’s more interesting is, despite being called a fruit, Fig is actually more of a syconium. A syconium is basically a small group of inverted flowers growing inside a pod, each pod has hundreds of flowers and produces small seeds, these very seeds are the actual fruit. Figs are known for their several health benefits like:
- Helps in Weight Management
- Improves Reproductive Health
- Promotes Bone Health
- Maintains Blood Sugar
- Keeps you safe against Constipation and Other Health Issues
What to Look For When Buying?
- Make sure the skin is smooth and unbroken
- The fruit needs to be soft and yielding to your touch
- It shouldn’t smell sour
- See if the fig hasn’t started to collapse inward and lose its round shape
5. Olive Oil
Helpful for: Cardiac Issues, Stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and Obesity-Related Issues
Olive oil is derived from the fruits of the olive tree, olives. It’s a traditional crop and olive oil is extracted from the fleshy part of ripened olives, by pressing them. These oils come in different colors, from clear yellow to golden, and sometimes with a greenish tinge.
Olive Oil and its moniker, extra virgin olive oil is one of the healthiest foods available. It’s been around for the past 6000 years and came from present Iran, Syria, and Palestine before making its way to the Mediterranean.
- It’s rich in Healthy Monounsaturated Fats
- High amounts of Antioxidants and Antibacterial Properties
- Strong Anti-Inflammatory Properties
- Excellent Anti-Cancer Properties
- Helps Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
What to Look For When Buying?
- Check the Harvest date, it should be older than 3 years. If there is no harvest date, then don’t buy
- Look for COOC seal, it’s a lab and taste analysis that determines whether its extra virgin or not
- See the country of origin, should be either Italy or somewhere nearby
- Make sure the oil has 0 trans fats
6. Cold Pressed Oil
Helpful for: Cardiac Issues, Mental Illnesses, Diabetes, Constipation, and Osteoarthritis
Cold Pressed Oils are derived from a method that first grinds the nut, seed, fruit, or vegetable into a paste, then presses the paste to extract the oil. This method is called cold pressing and is 5,000 years old. Oils derived using this method are purer, healthier, and richer in nutrients as compared to oil extracted in other ways.
Common examples of cold-pressed oils are Coconut Oil, Mustard Oil, Olive Oil, Sesame Oil, Almond Oil, Peanut Oil, and Safflower Oil. These oils offer a wide variety of health benefits, including:
- Rich in Nutrients and Healthy Fats
- High Amounts of Antioxidants and Anti-inflammatory Properties
- Beneficial for Hair, Skin, and Nails
- Controls Cholesterol Level and Improves Insulin Sensitivity
- Boats Excellent Anti-Cancer Properties
What to Look For When Buying?
- Avoid running after brands and fragrances, they don’t promise efficacy
- Consider your needs first, every cold-pressed oil has its unique benefits
- Trial and error, buy small and try for a week at least to find the best oil for yourself
- Rely on word of mouth
7. Desi Ghee
Helpful for: Digestive System, Bones, and Teeth, Cardiac Health, Cancer Development, Inflammation, and Obesity.
Desi Ghee is a type of clarified butter that originates from Southeast Asia (specifically India). It’s made with cow or buffalo milk and churned by heating the butter. Yes, it tastes a bit different than butter, a bit sweet and nutty, but not as strong as other oils.
It’s processing and use date back to ancient times, and even today Desi Ghee is used in food, traditional medicine, and religious rituals. It comes packed with health benefits like:
- Powerhouse of Energy and Good Fats
- Improves Intestinal, Skin, and Cardiac Health
- Protects Against Constipation
- Reinforces the Immune System
- Comes packed with essential vitamins, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties
What to Look For When Buying?
- Read labels and assure it’s derived from Grass-Fed Animal
- Know whether you want Buffalo Milk Ghee (Whitish or Dull Yellow) or Cow Milk Ghee (Golden Yellow)
- Opt for Metal and Plastic Cans instead of Plastic Bag or Glass containers
- Don’t worry about texture
Why You Should These Foods to Your Daily Routine?
If you want to fight off or keep yourself safe from infectious health issues, then you will need to reinforce your immune system. What we eat plays a vital role in how our immunity responds to pathogens and how well we can defend ourselves against these pathogens.
Nutrients like Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Vitamin B with Zinc and Selenium help strengthen your immune system against common to advanced health issues. However, you won’t improve your immunity by eating only one nutrient, you need to eat a bunch of them to improve your immune response. Adding the above-mentioned immunity booster foods will be excellent for starting up.
About Simple Organic Foods
Simple Organic Foods (SOF) aims to promote traditional diet and medicine to the current generation. To help you own your well-being, we cover all facets of physical and mental health.
We aim to fight the nationwide slide toward deteriorating health and help people to improve their lives by changing their views on healthy living and nutrition. To achieve this, our company introduces a wide variety of traditional foods that provides medicinal benefits aside thanks to their high nutrient value.
