The Best Summer Foods To Keep You Hydrated

Water content: 96.7%

Cucumbers are one of the vegetables with the highest content of water and are great to keep yourself hydrated. This veggie is perfect for a salad and can also be sliced up and enjoyed with some hummus!

Do you want to further increase the hydrating power of cucumbers? Mix and blend them up with some low or no-fat yogurt to make cucumber soup! Garnish with some mint and add ice cubes and you’re all set. Soups are a great hydrating agent, however, no one really wants to have hot soup on a summer day. That’s why the cucumber soup is a great, refreshing, delicious and hydrating pick throughout the year!

Water content: 95.6%

Not usually considered a great pick nutrition-wise, iceberg lettuce is a great hydrating vegetable, especially during summertime.

For when those temperatures rise, this leafy vegetable has the highest content of water among any other type of lettuce. Add iceberg lettuce to your sandwich, use it as the base for your healthy chicken salad, or even better, use it to wrap your tacos and burgers instead of tortillas or hamburger buns!

Water content: 95.4%

All those recent rumors about celery helping you shed calories aren’t quite true but are very close. Like other food rich in water content, celery has just as few as 6 calories per stalk. It is also loaded with fiber which fills you up quickly, helping you curb your appetite.

This vegetable also contains folate, vitamin A, C, and K. Its high water content is great to neutralize your stomach acids and is often recommended as a natural cure to heartburn and acid reflux.

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Water content: 90.7%

This vegetable has an impressive amount of fiber, potassium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, as compared to its sister veggie, cauliflower. Broccoli adds a perfect crunch to salads and also has several health benefits. It is the only cruciferous vegetable that has a significant level of sulforaphane, a compound that boost’s body’s protective enzymes and helps to flush out chemicals that cause cancer.

Water content: 91.4% water

With the long debate over spinach and iceberg lettuce, spinach always wins the overall deal. Add raw leaves of spinach to your sandwich or salad to add a great deal of hydration and nutritional punch, along with great flavor to your meal.

Spinach is high in lutein, potassium, fiber, and brain-boosting folate contents. Just one cup of spinach covers about 15 percent of your required daily intake of Vitamin E, which is an important antioxidant that helps fight the damage caused by molecules called radicles.