Can Food Really Help Grow Hair?
The short answer is yes, food can help strengthen and increase hair growth.
I wish there would be a magic pill that can instantly restore your hair to your youthful days, but I haven’t found one yet. However, there are many vitamins and nutrients found that does help aid and re-energize hair growth.
One of the major players in hair growth, and what doctors recommend to cancer survivors to grow back their hair is biotin, and we all need biotin. Biotin serves different functions and is the show’s star in the communication between gene regulations and cells. Wha? Not only does it eye, skin, hair, brain, and liver function, but it’s also essential to help with metabolic functions, you know what converts our food into boundless energy. This is a great list to bookmark if you want to strengthen your hair growth, help thicken hair and nails, and look even more beautiful than you do today. So many recipes can be made using this list. We will create items based on this list this month to create more deliciousness.
Foods that will get you to your recommended 30 micrograms of daily biotin:
Almonds [roasted]
Nuts and seeds are two staples for eating well, providing healthy unsaturated fats, protein, and fiber along with vitamins and minerals.
Roasted almonds are a good source of biotin, containing 1.5mcg (5% of AI) per quarter-cup serving.
Avocado
Avocados are filled with vitamin A, vitamin c, fiber, folate, biotin, and healthy fats. An avocado contains between 3–10 mcg biotin. So bring on the Guac*A*mole.
Bananas
Fiber, potassium, B vitamins, and biotin. A half-cup of bananas contains approximately 0.2 mcg of biotin. Start your morning with this banana oat pancake recipe.
Broccoli
Green is good, right?! Especially with biotin. So think green. Adding broccoli to meals means more fiber, Vitamin A and C, calcium and, biotin. When you have a 1/2 cup of broccoli into your life, you get around .4 mcg biotin.
Legumes [peas, beans, lentils]
Legumes are low-calorie, high-fiber, and contain biotin and high-protein foods that are low on the glycemic scale. FUN FACT: A half-cup of soybeans contains 19.3mcg [64% of your daily recommended] Edamame, anyone?
Mushrooms
I haven’t met a mushroom I didn’t adore. Mushrooms contain tons of minerals and vitamins as well as biotin. Mushrooms also help with gut health. Not only One cup of chopped fresh button mushrooms can provide you with {19% of the daily recommended] of biotin. Try our Japanese mushroom and onion soup.
Nutritional Yeast
Many vegans understand all about nutritional yeast, which is often used as a seasoning due to its savory and cheesy flavor to food. Not only does it taste good, but it is also good for you. Nutritional yeast is full of proteins, b vitamins and two tablespoons can contain [20% of the daily recommended] of biotin.
Sweet Potatoes
Not a potato but a root vegetable, sweet potatoes are a great source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and biotin up to 8% of daily recommended.
FUN FACT: Sweet potatoes contain beta-carotene, which promotes the health of your scalp and hair. Spice up dinner this week with our Sweet Potato Gnocchi.
Sunflower Seeds
A quarter-cup of roasted sunflower seeds about 2.6 mcg of biotin [9% daily recommended]. Sunflower seeds may help lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar by containing vitamin E, magnesium, protein, biotin, and more.
Originally published at https://www.mothervgan.com on January 31, 2022.
