Orange foods, such as carrots, salmon, pumpkin, red pepper, tomato, as well as certain fruits such as apricots, melons and peaches, have a high content of beta carotene, whose antioxidant action minimizes the cellular oxidation, a process that generates the formation of free radicals, responsible for our aging.
However, beta carotene belongs to the family of carotenes, which also includes alpha carotene, which appears in the same foods as beta carotene but in a smaller proportion; lycopene, which also reduces the chances of cancer of the prostate, lung, stomach, bladder, lung, stomach and cervix (it also has the properties of lowering cholesterol in the blood and preventing inflammation of the prostate, cryptoxanthin, xanthophylls, zeaxanthin, capsanthin and capsorubin, which protect from