5 Immunity-Boosting Items To Stock In Your Pantry As You Work From Home
Protect your family with Mother Nature’s hardiest bounty.
When a global health pandemic strikes, you take a risk every time you step out of your house. Thankfully, there’s a plethora of delivery services and takeout foods to choose from these days while you hunker down at home. Unfortunately, those kinds of foods aren’t always the healthiest. Ordering in all the time is also hard on your wallet in the long run. Our bodies use and absorb nutrients more efficiently when they come from whole food sources like seeds, fruits, vegetables and herbs. So if you’re looking to give your immune system a boost, choose vitamin and antioxidant-rich produce with longer shelf lives to make every trip to the supermarket count. Here’s what to add to your grocery list.
Longer-lasting fruits & veggies
When stored properly, veggies like carrots will easily keep for up to four weeks in your pantry. Apples stay fresh in the fridge for up to two months. That’ll give you a steady source of vitamin A. Vitamin A is an anti-inflammatory that arms antibodies against viruses. Other long-lasting pantry staples are oranges and cabbage. Oranges keep for two to three weeks at room temperature or up to two months in the fridge. Cabbage will stay fresh for as long as two months in the fridge if you keep it dry. These will provide you with loads of vitamin C, which increases white blood cell production and is key to fighting infection.
Dried mushrooms
Can’t get your regular dose of Vitamin D while cooped up indoors? Eat your sunshine and hoover down some dried mushrooms, especially shiitake. The best part is you can store them for up to a year in the pantry. Mushrooms naturally contain vitamin D. But certain sun-dried mushrooms boast even higher levels of it ’cos of sun exposure when it’s being laid out to dry. Vitamin D doesn’t just help keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy, it’s essential to immune function and helps regulate the body’s immune response.
Sunflower seeds
Nutrient-dense seeds contain the essential blueprint for germination, so eating one is like reaping all the benefits of the whole plant. Sunflower seeds, in particular, are rich in B complex vitamins — essential for a healthy nervous system — and are a good source of phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium, and vitamin E, an antioxidant that helps to boost the immune system. High in protein and low in carbs, sunflower seeds, which can be stored in the fridge for up to a year, are perfect for pecking on while you binge-watch your fave Korean drama.
Dried seaweed
Did you know that dried seaweed almost never rots? The salt naturally found on seaweed helps to preserve it. Seaweed is also a versatile addition that can be eaten on its own as a snack or used in dishes like sushi, soups and salads. Whether it’s the more common nori (zicai in Chinese) or kombu (a type of kelp), seaweed is highly nutritious and packed with antioxidants, iodine, vitamins and iron. But note that it is also high in sodium, so don’t overdo it.
Herbal Infusions
Drink your nutrients with a freshly brewed herbal infusion like NutriWell Herbal Tea. Brewing a variety of beneficial ingredients for long periods allows vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to be released and makes them more easily absorbed by our bodies. That’s something practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have advocated for centuries. Providing all the benefits without the hassle of brewing it yourself, NutriWell Herbal Tea is an immunity-boosting herbal infusion that is low in sugar and contains no added preservatives. The potent brew is concocted with carefully selected TCM ingredients like chrysanthemum flowers, luo han guo, prunella spike and red dates to nourish the body and rid it of excessive “internal heat”. Think of your body as a finely-tuned supercar. Everything is about balance. Lack of sleep and stress are sure-fire ways to put your immune system in a funk. When your body starts to overheat due to imbalances, the remedy is a coolant.
Every ingredient in NutriWell Herbal Tea is designed to help your body function at its optimum. Prunella spike, used in medicinal applications for more than a thousand years, is an antipyretic remedy for alleviating sore throat, reducing fever, and accelerating wound healing. Luo han guo, lauded for its medicinal properties, aids in the treatment of sore throat and the removal of phlegm. Chrysanthemum, which is rich in bioactive chemicals such as flavonoids, essential oils, chlorogenic and caffeoylquinic acids, boasts anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. As for red dates? They nourish the blood, improve quality of sleep, and regulate the digestive system. All these ingredients have been used in TCM for ages to great effect, so you’re certainly in good company.
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