6 Common Foods for Healthy Skin
Maintaining healthy skin shouldn’t depend on expensive skincare routines or special creams. Along with daily sunscreen use, a healthy diet is shown to be a great way to ensure your skin looks and feels fabulous.
Here’s the best part. These six foods can be found at just about any grocer—and they’re easy to incorporate into your diet. And there’s more: these foods are delicious, which means you can eat healthy without sacrificing flavor.
Avocado
Vitamins E and C are crucial for healthy skin. Guess what? Avocados are loaded with them. What’s great about this pair of vitamins is they tend to work even better together. Plus, vitamin C helps protect your skin from the sun. One more thing: avocados contain healthy fats that are shown to support supple, healthy skin.
Sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes contain a nutrient called beta carotene. A lot of it, in fact. Once incorporated into our skin, beta carotene acts as a natural sunblock that also helps prevent dry, wrinkled skin.
Broccoli
When it comes to broccoli, what can’t this superfood do? Here’s what it can do for your skin: thanks to the compound sulforaphane, broccoli can help protect against sun damage and is even found to contain cancer-preventing properties.
Fatty fish, like salmon, mackerel and herring
Fatty fish is loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that are shown to reduce inflammation and help your skin stay moisturized. Some bonus perks of fatty fish is that they are an excellent source of protein, vitamin E and zinc—all good things.
Tomatoes
Packed with vitamin C and carotenoids, tomatoes go a long way to protect your skin from sun damage and wrinkles. To maximize your body’s absorption of carotenoids, pair them with a fat like olive oil or cheese.
Dark chocolate
Indulge in the benefits of dark chocolate. It's high in antioxidants, which can help protect your skin against sunburn. These antioxidants may also improve wrinkles, skin thickness, hydration, blood flow and skin texture.
Good stuff, right? Chances are, if you eat a balanced, healthy diet then you’re already familiar with these foods—and that’s a great thing. Keep going! And remember to drink plenty of water throughout the day. It can help your skin glow and prevent dry skin.
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Sources:
healthline.com/nutrition/12-foods-for-healthy-skin
webmd.com/beauty/ss/slideshow-skin-foods
