Fruit and Seed Bars - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds (also known as pepitas)
- 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
- 2 tablespoons flax seeds
- 1 cup dried fruit (blueberries, raisins, currants, cranberries and/or cherries)
- 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/2 cup sunflower butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- In a food processor, pulse the first 6 ingredients until finely chopped (it's ok if there are few coarsely chopped pieces).
- Add the honey and sunflower and pulse until starting to combine.
- Pour the mixture into a 9 x 9 inch pan, greased then line with parchment and press down into the pan until completely even.
- Bake for 25 minutes.
- Let the bars completely cool before cutting with a serrated knife into bars.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Sunflower Seeds, Cranberries, Honey.
Sunflower seeds are an excellent food for PCOS as they are packed with vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Just one cup of sunflower seeds provides 30% of the recommended daily intake for vitamin B6. Sunflower seeds are also loaded with two other important of PCOS busting minerals: zinc and magnesium. Researchers believe that cranberries contain substances that prevent infection-causing bacteria from sticking to the urinary tract walls. However, store-bought cranberry juice is t...
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