Keep calm and stay cool this summer

30 Plant-based foods that you can eat to keep your cool and stay comfy in the summer heat

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Cooling foods

Whether you're feeling beach body ready yet or not, the summer like temperatures are beginning to increase for us with record high heat waves on the horizon for the coming season.  This summer, you can work to naturally keep your body temperatures as cool as humanly possibly by eating foods that are known to cool the body while hydrating it and flushing heat and toxins from it.  Some of Mother Nature's most popularly known cooling foods available are fruits and vegetables but, there are also some good legumes and whole grains that are known to cool the body down, too.

30 Cooling, Fast Foods to Eat for Summer

  1. Apples
  2. Avocados
  3. Bananas
  4. Blackberries
  5. Blueberries
  6. Broccoli 
  7. Cantaloupes
  8. Celery
  9. Cherries
  10. Coconuts
  11. Cranberries
  12. Cucumbers
  13. Grapefruit
  14. Grapes
  15. Honeydew melons
  16. Kiwi
  17. Lemon
  18. Mangoes 
  19. Oranges
  20. Peaches
  21. Pears
  22. Persimmon
  23. Pineapple
  24. Plums
  25. Pomelo
  26. Raspberries
  27. Star fruit
  28. Strawberries
  29. Tomatoes
  30. Watermelons

And, the List Goes On

Those thirty different kinds of cooling foods are some of the most popular raw, plant-based fast foods that will naturally cool your body down but, there are tons of other whole foods that you can use to keep cool in high heat temperatures.  Do you have any favorites of your own, what do you like to eat when you get hot?  

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