Boost Your Beauty With These Top Age-Proofing Foods

Boost your beauty from within with these top age-proofing foods

As well as improving how you feel on the inside, eating the right foods can enhance your natural beauty too. ‘For your skin to look its radiant best, it needs to be nourished by the best beauty nutrients,’ say the authors of the new book from Neal’s Yard Remedies, Eat Beautiful (DK, £16.99). Our skin thins as we age, becoming drier and less supple as levels of sebum, collagen and elastin fall. As well as moisturising it from the outside with skincare products, ensuring you eat plenty of skin-nourishing ingredients is proven to make a visible difference. ‘For glowing skin, eat foods with essential fatty acids to moisturise from within,’ say the authors. ‘Keep your skin supple and firm by eating foods rich in easily digested proteins and eat foods rich in healthy fats to boost collagen and elastin.’ Here are some of their top age-proofing choices.

COLD-WATER FISH

Wild salmon, trout, sardines and herring are rich in protein, helping repair your skin at a cellular level. They also contain omega-3 fats for supple skin. The pink colour in trout and salmon is due to astaxanthin, a powerful anti-inflammatory carotenoid that increases skin elasticity.

How to eat it: Have a 150g portion two to three times a week.

NETTLES

These greens are one of the richest sources of the beauty mineral silica, crucial for the formation of collagen, which keeps your skin tight and wrinkle-free. Silica deficiency can cause poor skin elasticity and texture. Nettles are also a good source of the hydrating molecule hyaluronic acid.