Foods to Hydrate You

GetFit likes to take a scientific approach to health issues and so we’ve spent hours in the office slicing, dicing and munching our way through loads of fruits and vegetables* to discover the top five hydrating fruit and vegetables you can serve up to keep yourself fully hydrated!

The top 5 hydrating fruits are:

1. Watermelons 92% (no surprise there),
2. Strawberries 92% 
3. Grapefruits  91%
4. Cantaloupes  90%
5. Peaches  88%

And the fruit with the lowest water content? The humble banana with ‘only’ 74% (But it’s still a piece of fruit, so don’t ignore them!)

Similarly, the top 5 raw Vegetables with the highest hydrating properties (i.e. with a high water content) are:

1. Iceberg lettuce 96%
2. Cucumbers 96%
3. Radish 95%
4. Courgette (Zucchini for our friends in the US) 95%
5. Celery 95%
6. Red Tomato 94% 

(Ok well top 6 then)

And it’s the white potatoes with just 79% at the bottom of the list.

Apart from giving you all the veggie and fruity goodness that eating vegetables and fruits give you, remember that for them to count towards your 5-a-day, they don’t have to be ‘fresh’, but a portion can be canned (drained and washed if in salt water or brine), dried, frozen, or in a 150ml juice (if its 100% fruit juice, but it counts as only 1 portion, no matter how many you have)

Just a cautionary warning though… too much of anything can be toxic… so whilst water aids in the process of removing toxins from your body (the next blog topic…), too much water can alter the balance of the salt in your body and can lead to ‘water intoxication’ which can be fatal…

The next GetFit blog is all about getting a good nights sleep...

(*Actually we did a lot of online research from various agricultural experts across the world to find the top 5 of each… but we did eat a lot of fruit and veg whilst we were researching!)