Watermelon Feta Salad
Healthy summer recipes.
Healthy summer recipes help us stay hydrated in the hot summer heat. Here is one of our favorite summer recipes.
Watermelon feta salad.
Watermelon (1 cup)
Baby Grape Tomatoes (1/2 cup)
Feta Cheese
Pistachios (Shelled)
Mint (3-4 leaves)
Raspberry Vinaigrette
Instructions –
Chop 1 cup of Watermelon into cubes and place into large salad bowl. Wash baby tomatoes and ½ cup to your bowl with watermelon. Add ½ cup of pistachios and stir all ingredients together. Next, add ¼ - ½ cup of feta cheese. Finely chop 4 mint leaves and sprinkle onto the top of you bowl of ingredients. Mix everything together in your bowl. After mixing, pour raspberry vinaigrette on top of your ingredients and mix well. All of the flavors come together & Viola! You have a fresh refreshing healthy summer snack – designed to keep you hydrated, nourished, and cool!
Recipe Benefits
Watermelon (Melon) Benefits
Some of the compounds found in watermelon are carotenoids, ellagic acid, flavanones, and phytonutrients. This components aid in the fighting of development of cancer at a cellular level. Therefore eating watermelon lowers risk of cancer (especially prostate cancer) and also aids in the following:
Lowers risk of heart disease
Keeps blood cholesterol levels steady
Aids in weight loss
Promotes a strong immune system
An anti-inflammatory food!
Tomato Benefits
Tomatoes contain a considerable amount of vitamins that promote optimal health with various functions of the body. The great benefit of this recipe is that the tomatoes are eaten raw and this is the best way to receive all of the benefits the debated vegetable/fruit has to offer.
Eye Sight – Tomatoes contain Vitamin A and this is an essential vitamin in improving your vision. This is great food to eat to prevent the development of night blindness.
Heart Health – The vitamin B and potassium in tomatoes are effective in reducing cholesterol and lowering blood pressure. This aids in the prevention of heart attacks, strokes, and other heart health issues.
Promotes cellular health – The vitamin A and vitamin C in tomatoes work together with beta-carotene as antioxidants to prevent harmful free radicals from becoming present in the blood stream. Free radicals can lead to cell damage. The compounds found in tomatoes work towards positive cellular health.
Optimal bone health – Both calcium and vitamin K are found in tomatoes. These nutrients are essential strengthening and performing minor repairs on the bones as well as the bone tissue.
Additional benefits – promotes strong and healthy hair and healthy skin, and teeth.