by Jennifer Kirkman

Created on: November 02, 2009

Mangoes are a great fruit with more nutrients than you might have never known about. My article here will explore what is in a mango that makes it a health food.

Eating one mango without the peeling is 135 calories, and 1.06 grams of protein. This fruit also contains 3.7 grams of fiber. Fiber is needed for roughage, and the maintaining of your colon health. Fiber also has ways of helping to lower cholesterol.

Some potassium is in a mango at 323 milligrams a serving. Potassium is vital in order to make the body function at all since it has role in controlling the heartbeats, provides muscle energy, and regulating balances of fluids in the body.

Copper in mango fruit is 0.228 milligrams in a serving. Copper is a great blood hemoglobin builder, helps thyroid functions, and it also helps to make our bone supportive collagen.

Mangoes contain another micro nutrient known as selenium. Selenium is essential to not only helping inflammation in arthritis, but it also helps us to process those disease-fighting antioxidants. Selenium in a mango is 1.2 micrograms, which is pretty good.

Mangoes are also a great source of your vitamin A. Vitamin A is helpful for immune system building, amd also has something to do with prohibiting cancer cells from building in the body as well. Mangoes will provide you with 1584 IU of this very essential body vitamin.

Folate in a mango is 29 micrograms in your one piece of this fruit. Fol ate is the essential water-soluble B vitamins that helps in processing of homocystine, an essential amino acid. Fol ate also helps cellular production in the blood, and plays a role therefore, in helping anemia.

The immune system building vitamin C is contained in mangos. You'll get 57.3 milligrams of this vitamin through eating mangos as well as collagen production too.

There is 8.7 micrograms of vitamin K in a mango. Vitamin K plays a role in the processing of your calcium, and the biggest role of K, is that it helps blood clotting formation to be normalized.

This fruit also contains magnesium, 13 milligrams, calcium 21 milligrams, and phosphorus in the amount of 23 milligrams. These are all good nutrients for the bones too. Magnesium is not only good for bones, but it helps regulate blood pressure and blood sugars, along with helping nerve functions. Phosphorus is what helps us to process the calcium in our bones, and there you have it.

Making mangoes a part of your diet is a good choice for sure, so why not add this nutritionally sweet food soon?

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