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Celebrate #Pride and Eat the Rainbow

Recipes

Celebrate #Pride and Eat the Rainbow

In honor of Pride— a month that celebrates freedom of being one's true self, the healing power of love and honoring those who've fought for LGBTQIA+ visibility and rights — we advise you to honor your body with this technicolor recipe. Consider this the on-theme fuel before heading out to the Pride March (on Sunday if you're in NYC!), or serving to friends + family all summer long.

We love this recipe because ~Eating the Rainbow~ is both a visual feast and a pillar of nutrition, as the more colors are in your food (naturally!), the more phytonutrients are bioavailable. Reds mean lycopene, quercetin, anthocyadins; blue and purple include flavanoids, resveratrol and phenolics; yellows and orange note beta-carotene, lutein, beta cryptoxanthin; and white means glucosinolates.

These vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc. are bursts of color on your plate that you need. Celebrate yourself, diversity, summer's bounty— with this goodness:

  

Eat The Rainbow Skewers:

Ingredients:

skewer

  • Red- organic Watermelon
  • Red/Purple- Dark cherries
  • Orange- organic Cantaloupe
  • Yellow- organic Pineapple
  • Green- organic Grapes

lemon-ginger drizzle 

  • 3 pink lemons
  • tablespoon fresh mint, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon of fresh ginger, grated

 

Directions:

 -slice fruit into small, edible pieces

- place on the skewer in rainbow order 

- in a bowl, whisk the juice of pink lemons, tablespoon chopped mint and a teaspoon of grated ginger (play around with proportions for your flavor preference) 

- drizzle over fruit skewers

- enjoy! 

Happy #Pride!

 

By S LIFE MAG • June 21, 2018

Filed Under: Body love, Eat the rainbow, Recipes, Summer produce

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