Fresh Fruit, Nuts And Vegetables Salad – best food for the heart

The heart is meant to beat with love into everybody’s life. It is always the best to keep your heart healthy and strong, especially in today’s lifestyle which is more sedentary than active. During childhood there is enough and more activity which keeps waning as one grows older. Less activity gives rise to growing weight which in turn puts a tremendous burden on an otherwise healthy heart. How do weight and inactivity damage a healthy heart? Over weight is caused by unhealthy food which becomes plaque and thickens the arteries. Affected arteries are unable to circulate oxygen carrying blood to the heart thus damaging it, sometimes irrepairably. It is always the best option to consume food which is heart healthy. What are heart healthyfoods? Basically, foods cooked in healthy heart oils, low in calories and high in nutrition

Best food for heart. Fresh fruits, vegetables and salads are food good for heart. This can also be considered as a cardiac diet

INGREDIENTS

• 2-3 Chopped walnuts
• 2-3 almond slivers
• 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds
• Half an apple diced
• 2-3 segments of orange or lemon
• Lettuce leaf –chopped
• ½ cucumber juliennes
• 1 tomato diced
• ½ a carrot julienned
• ¼ cup Shredded cabbage

DRESSING

• ¼ cup Hung Curd
• 3-4 clove Garlic finely crushed
• 1 inch Ginger crushed
• 1 tablespoon Coriander finely chopped
• 1 tsp Lemon Juice
• Salt to taste

Method

• Mix all the ingredient of the dressing in a bowl and keep aside
• In a deep bowl gently mix all the nuts, fruits and vegetables

Fold in the dressing before servingthe nutritious and sumptuous salad