Best Food for the Common Cold

Even a minimal understanding of nutritional health reveals that an imbalanced diet, one that doesn’t offer the basic minerals and vitamins our body needs, can cause health problems. Beyond simply feeling run down and without energy, such nutritional deficiencies can make you more likely to contract illness, and less able to fight off infection.

For this reason, people who struggle to keep their diets well rounded will often turn to supplements of some form or another. Even the popular “juice bar” solution is a form of dietary supplement; attempting to pack things that aren’t being consumed across other meals into a single easily downed glass of goodness.

Kiwifruit is an especially good addition to that juice, but it’s even better when consumed whole. New Zealand researchers have investigated the health benefits of the kiwifruit, and turned up encouraging results. People who regularly consume whole kiwifruit suffer from reduced intensity and duration of respiratory infections. Some studies conducted into the kiwifruit revealed even the chances of contracting such breathing ailments at all could be substantially reduced by making kiwifruit part of the regular diet. Children, for example, showed a nearly fifty percent lower incidence of such infections when they were given kiwifruits on a daily basis. A simple and delicious way to better avoid the common cold.