You grew up eating theM every summer, the juicy red fruit warm from the sun and perfectly ripe, little did you know they were so good for you! Hopefully what you are about to find out will only make you love them more.

Strawberries are considered one of the best sources of antioxidants, a key factor in improving immunity. Antioxidants also keep your eyes healthy add strawberries high Vitamin C content and you have some healthy happy corneas. Strawberries have a soft spot for you heart as well, containing essential elements of lipoprotein and flavonoids, which improve the health and over all function of your heart.

Ever hear of free radicals?  Free Radicals are a natural by-product of your body’s metabolic process. They are associated with an increased risk of many chronic diseases, like cancer. Don’t fret just yet, strawberries are a great weapon in this fight of repairing your cells from the damage caused by free radicals.

They do not stop there though, the Vitamin C found in strawberries helps promote the production of collagen, the elasticity in your skin that keep wrinkles at bay!

So enjoy your next heaping bowl of the succulent fruit knowing all the good it is doing you inside and out.