Cooking with the Color Orange-- Recipes with Orange Foods

Orange Food Sources

apricots, butternut squash, cantaloupe, carrots, mangos, peaches, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, sweet corn, oranges, nectarines, mandarins, tangerines.

For more information on these foods use the Food Encyclopedia pull-down menu to your right.

Health Benefits

A single carrot contains enough beta-carotene - the substance that the body converts to vitamin A - to provide enough of this important antioxidant for the day. Beta carotene reduces risk of cancer and heart disease; maintain good vision; increased infection fighting ability. Most people only think of oranges as a source of immune-boosting vitamin C, but they also provide folacin or folic acid - which plays a role in the formation of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. In addition, pumpkin seed oil, is a fabulous source of zinc.