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5. Sunflower seeds
These are commonly sold as snacks in gas stations and convenience stores. But unlike most snack foods, sunflower seeds offer quite a lot of nutritional value, including vitamin B-6 for energy, and also vitamin E, which helps strengthen and maintain the immune system. Sunflower seeds also contain minerals such as magnesium and phosphorus.
6. Yogurt
Yogurt contains beneficial probiotics which help digest food properly, so you can reap the maximum amount of benefits from their nutritional content. It also offers a fair amount of protein and calcium, which never hurts. One other benefit of eating yogurt is that it often has vitamin D. This is usually added in during the manufacturing process rather than naturally occurring, but it is still beneficial, because vitamin D helps strengthen the immune system. Many people are deficient in vitamin D due to poor diet or lack of sun exposure, but do not realize it. This is especially important because during the winter months, the skies are often cloudy and there is less sunlight than other times of the year (sun exposure triggers natural vitamin D synthesis in the body).
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