Wrinkle Fighting Recipes: Dessert Dishes (2/2)

Treat your taste buds to these wonderful desserts, and you'll be doing your skin a favor, too! Unlike many other desserts, the dishes featured below contain valuable nutrients that can contribute to healthy skin.

Note that this is the second recipe page focused on wrinkle-fighting desserts. You can view the first page here.

Chocolate Cake

This wrinkle fighting chocolate cake has a surprising ingredient: black beans! Black beans have a very low glycemic rating, making them an excellent anti-wrinkle food. Beans are also an important plant-based source of protein which the body needs for producing collagen and elastin. Also the dark cocoa powder in this cake contributes to its anti-wrinkle properties: the cacao plant contains significant amounts of flavonoids which have been shown to have strong antioxidant activity.
See the Recipe

Whole Wheat Brownies

Scientists have found the seeds of the cacao plant to contain significant amounts of flavonoids, mainly catechins and procyanidins. These flavonoids have shown strong anti-oxidant activity. What's particularly exciting about this recipe is that it calls for dark, unsweetened cocoa powder—the type of cocoa that typically boasts the highest levels of flavonoids.
See the Recipe

Rice Pudding with Blueberry Sauce

This rice pudding is dairy-free, which ensures that you benefit from the maximum antioxidant capacity of the accompanying blueberry sauce. Blueberries are among the best dietary sources of antioxidants, but consuming milk together with these pleasantly tart berries has been shown to decrease their antioxidant capacity.
See the Recipe

Cantaloupe Smoothie with Probiotics

The delicious combination of cantaloupe and natural yoghurt packs a powerful punch of skin protecting nutrients including beta-carotene, vitamin C, and zinc.
See the Recipe

Buckwheat Crepes with Bananas

Buckwheat is an excellent source of rutin, a bioflavonoid that helps the body utilize vitamin C and that helps maintain collagen levels in the skin, keeping the skin elastic and firm. What's more buckwheat is rich in protein, and the protein it boasts includes all eight essential amino acids, all of which are needed for skin repair.
See the Recipe

Millet Pancakes with Prune Compote

A study, which assessed the antioxidant capacity of a wide range of fresh and dried fruit and vegetables using the so-called Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) methodology, ranked prunes, or dried plums, the #1 food in terms of antioxidant potential. Prunes had more than twice the antioxidant capacity of other high ranking foods such as blueberries and raisins.
See the Recipe

Quinoa Crepes with Applesauce

Not only is quinoa high in protein, but the protein it contains includes all nine essential amino acids, all of which are needed for skin repair. Applesauce is rich in quercetin, a bioflavonoid that is particularly well suited for scavenging free radicals.
See the Recipe

Nettle Crêpes with Raspberries

There's no need to worry about this fascinating dessert stinging your tongue; the nettle in these crepes will only do you good. Young, cooked stinging nettle shoots are wonderfully edible, and they are packed with chlorophyll, a green plant pigment that is thought to rejuvenate skin by encouraging new cell growth. Raspberries served on top of these delicious crepes can further boost the wrinkle fighting properties of this meal.
See the Recipe

For more food recipes that can help you combat wrinkles, visit the Main Recipe Directory of HealWithFood.org's Guide to Fighting Wrinkles Naturally.

If you are interested in the nutritional approach to preventing and stopping the formation of premature wrinkles and fine lines on the skin, you might want to check out the section Diet Tips for Fighting Wrinkles and the section Best Foods to Eat for Wrinkle-Free Skin. Be also sure to visit the home page of this Guide to Fighting Wrinkles Naturally on a regular basis — all the latest anti-aging news and tips are first posted on the home page.