8 types of plums to add to your diet for amazing health benefits
A great source of antioxidants, eating plums can boost your heart health , control your blood sugar and keep your bowel movements smooth. With its incredible sweet and tangy taste and a wide variety of polyphenols and antioxidants, plum or aloo bukhara is no wonder one of the top dietary recommendations in summer and monsoon season. Be it hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand or plains of Punjab and Haryana plums are cultivated in several parts of the country. Plums can be consumed as fruits during the season , enjoyed as flavourful plum cake or turned into amazing jams and jellies. Plums come in various types and colours be it green, yellow, purple or red. Prune, one of the plums is dried at 85 to 90 degrees C and is further processed into prune products like juice or puree. Heart diseases are becoming common across the globe and are no longer the health issues affecting just the elderly. Plums can give your cardiovascular health a boost as its phytochemicals are prov...