Office Fruit

‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’. If your employees are perennially on sick leave and suffer from weak immune systems, you must make sure that apples feature quite prominently in your office fruit boxes. Fruit platters must not be restricted to apples alone. Kiwis, pineapples, bananas, and oranges are also important fruits with a lot of health benefits. However, when it comes to employee health, apples immediately occupy the top spot in most fruit box preferences. You should follow suit too.

Apple Nutrient Snapshot: (per 100 g)

• Calories: 52 g
• Water content: 85.6 g
• Vitamin A: 54 IU
• Vitamin C: 4.5 mg (accounts for 14% RDA)
• Vitamin K: 2.24 mg
• Dietary fiber: 2.4 mg (accounts for 15% RDA)
• Antioxidant count: 5900 TE (ORAC estimate value)
• Glucose: 2.2 g

Why must you consider apples to be your office fruit?

Apples are inexpensive, delicious, can be eaten raw, appeal to a lot of people, and are available all year round. Furthermore, one look at the snapshot would confirm that apples are indeed, the most nutrient rich office fruits available today. A few major health benefits that apples provide are enlisted below.

Apples benefit your brain

Apples are known to significantly reduce the probability of your employees contracting Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s syndromes. Apples are loaded with antioxidants, some of which are wonderful neuro-transmitters (dopamine and acetylcholine, in particular), which delay cell damage and degeneration in the brain. Thus, if apples are made your office fruit, your employees would be creative, stimulated, and highly energetic with superlative brain synergy.

Apples are superb for optimum bowel functioning

Since apples contain a huge dose of soluble and insoluble fiber (roughage that aids proper bowel activity), they are the best tools for bowel cleansing. Apples contain folic acids and antioxidants that cleanse colons, reduce gallstones, and decrease the chance of contracting pancreatic cancer by at least 23%. More importantly, apple is an important detoxification aid and a worthwhile office fruit choice.

Apples help you lose weight, control diabetes, and enhance your metabolism

Since most people in the world are more bothered about losing fat over losing an extra year of their lives, chances are galore that your employees would be too. Ensuring that your staffs get their daily dose of apples would help women in your work place reduce their risk of getting diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and help everyone lose weight naturally. Since apples are huge fiber sources, they would help you cleanse your anal excretory path and get rid of hemorrhoids in the process too. Can you think of a better office fruit?

Red apples must particularly be your office fruit

Green apples are great too. But, red apples are slightly more nutritious and antioxidant rich when compared to green apples. Not only do red apples decrease your chance of developing cataract and eye disorders up to approximately 15% (recent medical research), they also ensure you have a sound immune system courtesy the quercetin they contain.

Conclusion

With apples as your principal office fruit, in tandem with other fruits, your employees would certainly benefit from long lasting health and prosperity.