Recipes for Fighting Asthma (Main Dishes)

Super-Nutritious Broccoli Salad with Apples and Cranberries

This nutritious anti-asthma salad uses ingredients that are crammed with asthma fighting nutrients such as beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, magnesium, potassium, and quercetin. What's more, it contains some omega-3 fatty acids (provided by the broccoli). Note: this recipe contains dairy.
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Romaine and Smoked Salmon Salad

Romaine lettuce and carrots provide an abundance of beta-carotene and vitamin C, both of which help alleviate asthma symptoms due to their antioxidant powers. Salmon and radishes are also beneficial as they possess strong anti-inflammatory properties.
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Tomato, Cucumber and Red Onion Salad

Tomatoes possess a number of interesting properties that make them exceptional at preventing asthma and alleviating asthma symptoms. Their most interesting quality: they contain lycopene which can reduce lung inflammation in asthmatic adults. Red onions, another key ingredient in this salad, possess strong anti-inflammatory properties which may also help alleviate asthma in some people.
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Dairy-Free Spinach Soup

This delicious, vibrant green spinach soup draws on the health benefits of spinach. Research shows that people with a high intake of spinach generally have a lower risk of developing asthma. This is not surprising considering that spinach features a host of important asthma preventing nutrients, including beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, and magnesium. It also has a substantial potassium content in proportion to its calorie content: a 100 calorie serving provides about 40% of the reference daily intake for this important asthma-fighting mineral.
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Chicken and Apple Salad

This asthma-fighting salad recipe pairs chicken with juicy apples and grapes to create a culinary sensation that will tickle your taste buds. Chicken, apples, and grapes rarely cause allergic reactions, so this salad is also well suited for those who suffer from asthma. In addition, the apples in this salad possess some extraordinary properties that may be protective against asthma. One study discovered that pregnant women who ate apples protected their child from developing asthma. Another study found that by drinking apple juice daily children could reduce their chance of suffering from wheezing by 50 percent.
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Apple and Onion Soup

This soup recipe features apples and onions, two of nature's best sources of quercetin. Quercetin is a bioflavonoid that is known to possess strong antioxidant, anti-histamine, and anti-inflammatory properties which help alleviate asthma.
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Tangy Tomato Soup with Basil

Tomatoes possess a number of interesting properties that make them exceptional at preventing asthma and alleviating asthma symptoms. Their most interesting quality: they provide lycopene. In one study with 32 asthmatic adults, those who were given tomato extract rich in lycopene had a lower rate of lung inflammation than those who received a placebo. Lycopene from processed tomato products—such as the stewed tomatoes used in this soup—appears to be more bioavailable than lycopene from raw tomatoes. Also the basil this recipe calls for contributes to the asthma fighting power of this soup as it is rich in flavonoids which provide antioxidant protection.
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Simple Sweet Potato Ginger Soup

Sweet potatoes are one of the vegetables that are least likely to cause allergic reactions such as asthma attacks. What's more, sweet potatoes contain many compounds that may even help fight attacks triggered by other substances. Also the onions this recipe calls for may be helpful for people with asthma because of the high amount of quercetin onions contain. Furthermore, ginger may be helpful because it contains gingerols, strong anti-inflammatory substances that also give ginger its distinctive flavor.
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Carrot, Tomato and Lentil Soup

This carotenoid-rich soup can be of great help in alleviating asthma symptoms. The carrots in this soup are a top-notch source of beta-carotene while tomatoes offer a whopping amount of lycopene. Beta-carotene is a fat soluble antioxidant that combats free radicals which cause contraction of airway smooth muscles. Lycopene, another carotenoid with high antioxidant activity, has been shown to be particularly effective at controlling exercise-induced asthma.
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Broccoli and Barley Soup

Provided that you're not allergic or sensitive to gluten, this delicious and highly nutritious dish may help alleviate your asthma symptoms. The broccoli in this soup contains certain antioxidant compounds that help control the airway inflammation associated with bronchial asthma. The stewed tomatoes contain lycopene which has been shown to reduce lung inflammation. In addition, tomatoes are packed with the asthma-nutrients beta-carotene, vitamin C, and potassium. Also thyme and marjoram, which are used to add flavor to this soup, may be helpful for people with asthma as they contain ursolic acid which is thought to alleviate asthma by inhibiting histamine release from mast cells.
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