One intention for the Garden Club is to foster an environment of health & well being through gardening. Our Chairman Indy is a huge advocate of healthy eating & nutrition, growing lots of unusual fruit & veg specifically for it's unique nutritional benefits, particularly purple potatoes & carrots.
The purple potatoes & carrots are extremely nutritious because they are very rich in antioxidants, particularly anthocyanins (which gives it the purple colour) and therefore has a huge list of reported health benefits, including:
- Improved cardiovascular health, reduces heart disease.
- Dementia prevention (the Japanese Okinawans eat purple sweet potato every day and have some of the lowest levels of alzheimer’s and dementia).
- Increased longevity & anti-ageing (as they help to prevent the breakdown of skin collagen and slow the wasting of muscles).
- Reduced blood pressure
- Preventing cancers such as colon cancer
- Reduces Inflammation
- Decreased risk of stroke.
- Reduce blood clots
- Reduce cholesterol
- Plus many more
- More importantly they taste great....
The pictures above show some our purple & red potatoes, purple sweet potato & rainbow carrots. Below are some links to reports showing the health benefits of these veg, including a BBC report.
https://robertsberrie.com/en/more-about-berrie/health-effects-of-berries/100-years-old-and-full-of-vitality/
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/19/the-health-benefits-of-growing-purple-potatoes
https://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/blog/health-benefits-of-growing-purple-potatoes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJm9VNdfJz8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03q0lnd
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/19/the-health-benefits-of-growing-purple-potatoes
https://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/blog/health-benefits-of-growing-purple-potatoes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJm9VNdfJz8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03q0lnd
