Pack with Nutrients and Antioxidants
Peaches include a lot of vitamins, minerals, and plant chemicals that are good for you. Peaches, like plums, apricots, cherries, and nectarines, are stone fruits. Stone fruits, as the name implies, contain a center pit that resembles a stone. Peaches come in white and yellow types and have a variety of nutritional benefits.
One medium-sized peach (5.4 ounces or 150 grams) provides approximately:
- Calories: 58
- Protein: 1 gram
- Fat: less than 1gram
- Carbs: 14 grams
- Fiber: 2 grams
- VitaminC:17% of the Daily Value (DV)
- VitaminA:10% of the DV
- Potassium: 8% of the DV
- Niacin: 6% of the DV
- VitaminE:5% of the DV
- VitaminK:5% of the DV
- Copper: 5% of the DV
- Manganese: 5% of the DV
Peaches include trace levels of magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and B vitamins. Furthermore, they are high in antioxidants, which are beneficial plant components that fight oxidative damage and help protect your body from aging and illness. The more antioxidants a fruit has, the fresher and riper it is. As long as canned peaches remain unpeeled, fresh and tinned peaches appear to provide comparable levels of vitamins and minerals. Fresh peaches, on the other hand, contain greater antioxidant levels and appear to be more efficient at guarding against oxidative damage than canned peaches.
