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Simply Healthy | 10 Foods That Detox

Updated: Friday, 24 May 2013, 2:25 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 14 Mar 2013, 12:02 PM CDT

Committing yourself to a full detox program can be a huge change in your daily routine. If you aren’t ready to jump feet first into a hardcore routine, you can simply modify your diet by cutting out foods high in carbs and sugar and adding foods that will renew, revive and rejuvenate you.

If you want to know more about doing a juice cleanse, click to check out my simple 3-Day Cleanse + recipes!

10 Foods That Detox:

Apples:
• Fiber
• B-vitamins
• Vitamin C
• Antioxidants
• Beta-carotene

Avocados:
• Fiber
• Minerals
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin K
• B-vitamins

Beets:
• Fiber
• Minerals
• Vitamins ABC
• Folic acid

Cabbage:
• Fiber
• Potassium
• Vitamin E
• B-vitamins
• Folic acid

Citrus:
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin B
• Phosphorous
• Proteins

Flax:
• Fiber
• Omega-3 fatty acids
• Phytoestrogens
• DHA

Garlic:
• Antioxidants
• Helps with absorption of vitamins and minerals

More about garlic in Twinkle's Kitchen.

Ginger:
• Immune-boosters
• Anti-inflammatory
• Digestive aid

Try some of Twinkle's ginger recipes.

Tea:
• Antioxidants
• Immune-boosters
• Hydration

Water:
• Hydration:
• Helps with digestion by flushing out toxins

If you want to know more about doing a juice cleanse, click to check out my simple 3-Day Cleanse + recipes!

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Twinkle VanWinkle was born in a small town in Mississippi. A life-long lover of music, media and food, she grew up following those three things along her path. She has almost 20 years of professional cooking under her apron strings, feeding thousands of friends, family and other folks while working in restaurants and bakeries in Oxford, Miss. She baked apple pies for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and appeared on Food Network's “The Best Of...” in the same year. Along with producing dynamic lifestyle content for LIN Media, she is a mother, musician and social media fanatic.

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