Deep Dive

Celery is the refresh button for your raw bowl: crisp, hydrating, easy to love and super useful for blood-pressure support and everyday antioxidant. It’s bringing you helpful minerals, naturally occurring nitrates and distinctive celery compounds (phthalides and flavones) that support everyday heart and whole-body wellness. Celery’s unique profile of phytochemicals, electrolytes, and water positions it as a multifunctional vegetable, supporting cardiovascular health, inflammation control, cancer prevention, and optimal hydration.

 Why You'll Love It 

• Celery contains unique antioxidants that fight inflammation throughout the body and may help protect against chronic diseases.
• Hydrating, ultra-light: with about 95% water and very few calories - great for volume without heaviness.
• The natural compounds called phthalides in celery can relax blood vessels, making this vegetable a surprising aid for lowering high blood pressure.
• Built-in flavone toolkit (apigenin, luteolin) for everyday antioxidant and anti-inflammatory support.
• Because celery is so rich in water and electrolytes, it’s great for hydration and aiding kidney and urinary tract health.
• Potassium + veggie nitrates together in this veg support healthy blood pressure.
• Antifungal and antibacterial: celery’s flavonoids and polyacetylenes offer broad-spectrum antimicrobial properties, supporting immune defence against infections.
• Mouth-friendly crunch that helps saliva flow and everyday oral freshness.

 Health Benefits 

Oral and gum-tissue support (saliva-stimulating crunch)
Crunchy, fibrous produce like celery stimulates saliva flow, which helps neutralise plaque acids and rinse food particles - part of why dental guidance encourages plenty of fruit and veg alongside core dental care.

Heart-smart addition to your bowl
Celery naturally contains phthalides (the aroma notes that make celery smell like celery) which relaxes arterial smooth muscle, improving blood flow and lowering systolic blood pressure. Celery also brings potassium, a mineral that supports healthy blood pressure as part of a balanced diet. Its nitrate load further supports nitric oxide production for vasodilation, contributing to long-term cardiovascular health.

Blood sugar friendly
With very low sugars and modest carbohydrate, celery adds bulk and texture without spiking blood glucose - useful for steadier post-meal energy when paired with higher-fibre legumes, seeds and leafy greens.

Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant defence
Celery provides flavones such as apigenin and luteolin alongside phenolic acids. These plant nutrients, along with vitamin C and phenolic compounds, provide comprehensive antioxidant defence, protecting cells from oxidative damage and reducing chronic disease risk - one useful reason to keep crunchy veg in regular rotation.

Cancer prevention
The compounds apigenin and luteolin in celery have also demonstrated anticancer effects by helping to kill cancer cells, stopping their growth, and preventing them from spreading in breast, colon, prostate, and lung cancers.

Digestive health and detoxification
High water content (95%) and 1.6g of fibre per 100g support regular bowel movements and hydration. Celery’s certain plant compounds help your liver get rid of toxins by boosting natural enzymes that flush out harmful substances and improving digestion and liver function.

Brain and cognitive support
Compounds in celery, like apigenin and luteolin, can cross the blood-brain barrier, help protect brain cells by reducing damage from harmful molecules, and calming down brain inflammation. This might help slow down memory loss and protect against neurodegenerative diseases.

Hydration and electrolyte balance
Celery provides electrolytes - especially potassium - and supports hydration, making it ideal for post-exercise recovery and maintaining fluid balance without added sugars or calories.

Gut-friendly routine
Water + fibre is a simple combo that supports regularity and contributes to your daily fibre target. Celery isn’t the highest-fibre veg, but it plays well with prebiotic-rich foods in the same bowl to support a healthy gut environment.

 Why It Works – Scientific Insight 

• Phthalides → Relaxed vessel tone: Celery’s characteristic compounds are linked (in extract trials) with easier vessel relaxation, a plausible mechanism present in the plant.

• Dietary nitrate → Nitric oxide: Vegetables (including celery) supply nitrate that the body can convert to nitric oxide, supporting healthy blood-flow signals like endothelial function and vasodilation.
• Flavones (apigenin/luteolin) → Calmer inflammatory signalling: These compounds modulate common inflammatory pathways and help counter oxidative stress.
• Potassium → Vascular tone: Adequate potassium intake supports normal heart function and blood pressure within a healthy diet.

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