Phytonutrients are the protective and powerful antioxidants that can provide a range of health benefits, from promoting eye, bone and heart health, to supporting immune and brain function. They're perhaps better known as the substances that often give fruits and vegetables their unique color.
Phytonutrients are central to a healthy lifestyle. However, availability, cost, cultural diets and geography make eating the recommended amount and variety of fruits and vegetables, and therefore phytonutrients, a challenge for people in nearly every part of the world.
We call this shortfall of intake the phytonutrient gap. One solution for filling nutrient shortfalls that is supported by global health authorities is dietary supplementation.
Source: Nutrilite
"Daily intake of fresh fruit and vegetables (including berries, green leafy and cruciferous vegetables and legumes), in an adequate quantity (400-500g per day), is recommended to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure."-World health Organization and Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
"Phytonutrient or Phytochemicals, chemical compounds that occur naturally in plants (phyto means "plant" in Greek). Some are responsible for color and other organoleptic properties, such as the deep purple of blueberries and the smell of garlic. The term is generally used to refer to those chemicals that may have biological significance, for example antioxidants, but are not established as essential nutrients.[1] Scientists estimate[citation needed] that there may be as many as 10,000 different phytochemicals having the potential to affect diseases such as cancer, stroke or metabolic syndrome."-wikipedia
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