What are "phytonutrients"?

What are "phytonutrients"?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: What are "antioxidants"? and more...

Phytonutrients are plant chemicals, Plant phytochemicals, phytonutrients, they're plant chemicals and there is so many families of them. In 1991we only knew of 12,455 phytochemicals, plant chemicals or plant nutrients. And we didn't know anything else about them. Basically, they have, each group, each family has individual prosperities that have individual responsibilities for protecting us in various ways whether it's to protect against cancer or heart disease, against MS or fibromyology, against Alzheimer's. My thought is that we gonna find that you need all of the different nutrients over the course of a week in order to provide the foundation for health and protection against all those illnesses. It's not one family of nutrients or one family of phytochemicals. It's all of the different families of phytochemicals are necessary for our health.