Top Super Fruits, Building Immunity with Superhealthy Fruits

Super fruits are not regular hybridized fruits, but are fruits that offer a complex array of nutrients that you can’t get from a banana or an apple. Some of these fruits contain unique components such as high amounts of antioxidants, polysaccharides and other phyto-nutrients, in addition to adaptogenic attributes.

Many superfruit varieties naturally grow in more remote arid regions or tropical rainforest locations, producing fruit with an abundance of antioxidant enzymes and metabolites to protect against oxidative cellular damage to various constituents such as lipids, proteins and actual DNA of the fruit species.

  

According to the Natural Health Research Institute, studies indicate that plants yield higher amounts of antioxidants as a protective mechanism in response to environmental conditions and challenges. This may involve competition with other plants, soil nutrient availability, droughts or weather fluctuations, mold or bug infestation, amount of accessible sunlight and other factors.

This produces a highly resilient and adaptable fruit bearing plant that is extremely high in protective nutrients when the fruit is consumed.

Today we need more from the food we eat to balance the high amounts of pollutants, from plastics to radiation exposure. These poisons are not going away overnight so it is good to do everything we can do to boost our immune system and shield ourselves against these toxins on a regular basis.

  

Antioxidants are the "building blocks of a healthy immune system" and most of the superfruits on this list have them in large quantities.

Many are not as sweet in taste, like other traditional fruit varieties but, on the upside, they are superfoods for enriching the diet with a concentrated source of energy charging ingredients. They can be easily enjoyed in smoothies and drinks blended with more common fruits, like mango, blueberry or banana.

Each possess their own particular set of health promoting qualities.  Some super fruits are great for the skin, helping to counter the effects of damaging "free radicals" and what causes aging, while others work primarily as tonic adaptogens to restore deep immune health.

Top Superfruits List

Many are not as sweet in taste, like other traditional fruit varieties but, on the upside, they are superfoods for enriching the diet with a concentrated source of energy charging ingredients. They can be easily enjoyed in smoothies and drinks blended with more common fruits, like mango, blueberry or banana.

Each possess their own particular set of health promoting qualities.  Some super fruits are great for the skin, helping to counter the effects of damaging "free radicals" and what causes aging, while others work primarily as tonic adaptogens to restore deep immune health.

Top Superfruits List

(Not in order of importance.)

1)  Maqui Berry

Maqui berries (Aristotelia chilensis) are an amazing South American fruit, like the acai berry, but are native to the Patagonian mountain range of southern Chile. 

They contain tremendously high levels of antioxidants and are often used dried in powdered form in other parts of the world.  The bright purple powder is another great super fruit ingredient to include in a smoothie or raw pie recipe.

2) Camu Camu Berry

Also included on our list of top 10 superfoods, this powerful berry is a tropical super fruit from the Amazon with an unmatched form of naturally occurring vitamin C.

In fact, camu camu IS the most concentrated supply of natural plant based Vit C in the world, surpassing even the acerola cherry. 

Camu maintains protective effects on the nervous system and heightens brain performance, shielding against "brain fog", dementia and reduces the build up of plaque on brain nerves, a condition associated with Alzheimer's. 

Consuming camu camu berry is known to benefit the skin, enhancing collagen levels that tighten and rejuvenate skin elasticity.

3) Durian

Durians are one of the rare fruits, aside from olives and avocados that contain the good fats along with a creamy sweet custard-like texture.  Although the fruit is not high in antioxidants, like the other superfruits, it is an excellent source of these raw fats that can fuel the body for extended periods of time.

Durian fruit (Durio zibethinus) contains high levels of the amino acid tryptophan, in addition to high levels of Vit E. It is excellent for nourishing the skin and has a well known reputation as a powerful aphrodisiac.

4) Goji Berries

Goji berries are another superior "tonic" fruit on our top 10 superfoods list for their anti-aging effects and trademark as one of the only foods scientifically proven to promote levels of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) in the body.

They have an outstanding amount of polysaccharides to help build the immune system as well as a full range of antioxidants.  Goji is also works as a adaptogen tonic and is often used in conjunction with tonic herbs to replenish deep immune health.

5) Noni Fruit

Noni fruit is a tropical fruit (Morinda citrifolia), known for it's incredible anti-inflammatory and immune boosting properties.  Noni has extremely high levels of polysaccharides that help to increase the ability of white blood cells to rid the body of pathogens. 

It is valued for its many unique health promoting components and is a well known treatment for skin conditions of all kinds. It is tradition to ferment noni and drink the juice, but powdered forms of noni are also available. It is helpful to consume noni as well as use it topically for skin repair and rejuvenation.

6) Schizandra Berry

Schizandra (Schizandra chinensis) is one of the most common sexual tonics known in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Several months of drinking schizandra berry tea is known to provide youthful, supple glowing skin. As a famous "beauty tonic", it is said to "hold moisture within the cells of the skin."

Schizandra also works with the liver organ as a blood purifier and is a powerful restorative for the eyesight. It is especially helpful at increasing range of vision and clearing the eyes of redness.

7) Amla Berry

Amla berry, also called Indian gooseberry or amalaki, (Phyllanthus emblica or Emblica officinalis) is a tree fruit and powerful antioxidant that rejuvenates and detoxifies the body.

It is considered an Ayurvedic herb working primarily as a digestive and bowel tonic to improve "digestive fire", aid in elimination and promote a healthy intestinal tract.

Amla is known to stimulate the production and regeneration of red blood cells and is beneficial to many of the primary organs of the body.

Amalaki fruit is a great source of vitamin C and another fruit powder supplement option to consider for recharging immune health. It is specific for soothing pain caused from inflammation of the joints and great for those with autoimmune disorders.

8) Mangosteen

Mangostein or mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) has become very popular in recent years due to it's level of Xanthones that occur in the outer rind of the fruit which are a super rich source of antioxidants.

Known to help everything from reducing nerve pain to lowering blood pressure, it is one of the great super fruits commonly eaten fresh in Indonesia, but mostly sold as a concentrated extract in other parts of the world.

9)  Red Jujube Dates

Red jujubee dates (Zizyphus jujube) are an Asian fruit known to "clear the 5 openings" which include the eyes, ears nose, throat and sinuses.  They are specific in Traditional Chinese Medicine for toning and purifying the stomach, the body's center and earth element. 

Jujubee's can be eaten fresh but are commonly used dried and brewed with other Chinese herbs.  They help to harmonize and balance tonic formulas and are also considered a major tonic herb.

10) Acai Berry

Acai berry is a traditional fruit of the Brazilian Amazon region.

It is a palm fruit species (Euterpe oleracea) that has been extensively researched and tested for it's long list of health benefits.

Claiming fame as a "top superfood" on the Oprah Winrey Show by Dr Perricone for a good reason, you can read more about the benefits of acai berry on the link above.

11)  Baobab Fruit

Baobab fruit comes from the massive African baobab trees (Adansonia Digitata L.).  The baobab fruits have a hard shelled exterior, like that of a coconut.  The fruit inside the large pods naturally dries in the heat of the sun and produces a powder that tastes like “caramel pear and vanilla with subtle tones of grapefruit." 

Baobab is an antioxidant-rich fruit with significantly high amounts of nutrients, including iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium and vitamin C.   It is also naturally high in pectin and fiber content