Carotenoids Count! Cliff Sheats
Don’t risk your health by shortchanging yourself on orange, red, and yel-low fruits and vegetables. They’re brimming with carotenoids, a kind of super-antioxidant making news. Carotenoids are responsible for the colorful hues of plants and even some animal foods, includ-ing salmon and shrimp. But they do more than serve as natural pig-ments. Carotenoids have “provitamin A activity,” meaning that your body produces vitamin A from them, especially beta-caro-tene (the most well known of the carotenoids)
