Eggplant
Eggplants are for more than saucy text messages! They are great not just as a meat replacement for a parmesan dish but also to help your cardiovascular system improve circulation. Surprisingly similar to chocolate, eggplants also have flavonoids. On top of that, a charming cocktail of nasunin, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals round out this member of the nightshade veggie family and make it a formidable opponent to high cholesterol, cell membrane damage, cancer, blood clots, and heart disease.
Broccoli
The vegetable that prolongs children’s time at the dinner table can also help prolong your life. Look to broccoli for help keeping cholesterol in check and blood vessels pumping! Compared to the other superfoods on this list, what makes broccoli unique is sulforaphane, which serves both as an anti-inflammatory and a way to prevent chronic blood sugar problems. The tiny ones in stir fry dishes count for all this, right? Cause those ones are so much more palatable…