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So I've done quite a few videos on different spices but I have not done one on paprika.

So we're going to talk about the health benefits of paprika.

So paprika is made from dried red peppers the mild versions and it became very popular

in Hungary in the late 19th century.

So when we're talking about the health benefits of spices we're talking about the various

phytonutrients in spices and they're usually connected to color pigments.

And so in paprika we have various colors ranging from yellow to orange to red.

So let's start with the yellow and orange pigment phytonutrients.

You have alpha carotene and beta carotene.

These are precursors to vitamin A but the benefits from paprika are not actually vitamin

A. It's in the actual precursors to vitamin A both alpha carotene and beta carotene.

Then we have another one called zazanthen and paprika is loaded with zazanthen and then

we have lutein.

So both zazanthen and lutein are great for the eye in preventing age-related macular

degeneration as well as cataracts.

Then we have another one called beta-crypto-zanthen and those are all the yellow orange pigments and

then we get into the red pigments which include cap-santhen and cap-sorubin.

So collectively all these phytonutrient chemicals create some really cool effects in the eye

in protecting the eye against degenerative problems.

You have anti-inflammatory properties, you have anti-cancer risk, they have potential

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