10 Nourishing Foods to Boost Your Mood During COVID-19 Isolation

Unfortunately, no lifestyle intervention will make you invincible to coronavirus but there are a number of small things you can do to boost your health, mood and immune system at this challenging time. Nutribuddy’s Educational Nutritionist, Kelly Rose explains that eating well (5 a day and fibre rich foods), 30 minutes of outdoor exercise each day and practising good sleep hygiene are your foundations. Fibre, Outdoors, Sleep and Exercise – FOSE – remember to prioritise FOSE every day.  Nutribuddy has also put together a list of 10 foods to help boost your mood during COVID-19 isolation. 

For example, nuts and seeds! Not only are nuts and seeds a perfect protein, fat, antioxidant and fibre rich source of nutrition, many are high in tryptophan, an amino acid essential in the production of serotonin (neurotransmitter/feel good hormone). These include cashews, walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower and soybeans. A few brazil nuts a day provides you with selenium which is one of the important antidepressant scale nutrients. Scroll down to see more mood-boosting foods.