What are Carotenoids?
What beta-carotene:
• Are vitamins from plants that when ingested with food in our bodies are changed into vitamin A.
What are carotenoids?
• Turn on the skin’s defense system, promoting their protection against ultraviolet rays.
• The beta-carotene, by itself, have antioxidant properties that are useful to help fight free radical activity and prevent the damage they can do in our body, also stimulate the immune response and protect the skin redness and damage by ultraviolet radiation.
• It also stimulates the formation of melanin and therefore help us to get dark.
Where beta-carotene:
• Especially the beta-carotene found in fruits and vegetables their yellow, orange or red, but are also abundant in such vegetables as grape leaves, kale, parsley and radishes.
How to consume beta-carotene:
• beta-carotene is found naturally in plants, are especially abundant in carrots, red peppers, vine leaves, moniatos, radishes, parsley, seaweeds, dandelion, watercress and melon.
• However, you can also take the form of pearls which is often combined with vitamin E and zinc to increase its impact.
• We recommend taking them in the spring and summer, to activate the skin’s defense system against ultraviolet radiation.