What to Eat and What to Avoid in Order to Have a Healthy and Flawless White Smile

Although professional whitening can certainly make your teeth look brighter and stronger, the way to avoid stains in the first place is prevention and therefore flossing, brushing and eating right. The food you eat has a huge impact on your teeth.

Fortunately, there is a way, moderation and keeping balance is the key but avoiding and eating certain food for healthy teeth is crucial when it comes to keeping your teeth white and flawless.

What to avoid?

• Citrus fruit- although rich in vitamin C, the lemon juice, for example, is highly acidic and can erode the tooth enamel over a longer period of time.
• Chewy candy-it will stick to your teeth allowing bacteria to burn sugar and make acid that dissolves the tooth enamel.
• Hard candy-dissolves slowly giving bacteria more and more time to produce acid.
• Pickles-the process of making pickles and their sour taste is connected to the use of vinegar, making them directly harmful to your enamel.
• Soda-besides being “packed” with sugar it can harm teeth hence of the acids found in it and all of the similar carbonated soft drinks; meaning even sugar-free soft drinks can “endanger” your whiteness. However, if you can`t live without it, try drinking it with the meal. This will neutralize all the harmful acids.
• Wine-the red wine has an unbeatable bad reputation for leaving terrible stains on clothes and tablecloths, so    it`s no exception when it comes to leaving stains on your teeth. It contains a substance named chromogens  that produces tooth-discoloring pigments and it works “well” with tannins-substance that dries out the mouth  and in a way making the stains worse.
• Coffee-in the same way it leaves stains on your favorite coffee mug, it leaves stains on your teeth too.
• Crackers-hence of the high level of refined carbohydrates found in them-the converting into sugar happens  quickly-providing “solid ground” for cavity-forming bacteria.
• Tea-rich in tannins like the red wine, tea tends to leave stains especially black tea.
• Sports drinks-similar to soft drinks they are acidic too and therefore damaging to the teeth.

How to reverse the damage?

As equally important as knowing which foods can stain, damage or weaken your teeth is knowing how you can prevent this damage by eating a healthy and balanced diet. This includes a list of food for healthy teeth and creating healthy habits.

1. 1.  Drinking plenty of water

      Water helps with washing the unhealthy and eroding acids off the teeth. It also contains minerals that   protect your teeth from tooth erosion, also some of them are added in toothpaste and mouthwashes.

   2.  Eating dairy food

      Milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products contain a great amount of calcium, essential for   maintaining our bones and our teeth healthy. Besides containing calcium, recent studies confirmed the   presence of casein which is a type of protein held in charge of repairing the tooth enamel.

   3.  High-fiber foods

      The benefits of eating leafy vegetables and other high-fiber foods are tremendous like healthy cholesterol levels and good digestion, but besides all of this, they are good for your teeth too. The benefits for your teeth come directly from the repetitive chewing which increases the production of saliva.

   4.  Eating berries-especially strawberries

      The strawberries beside being delicious they are well-known as having “super-powers” when it comes to whitening teeth. They contain malic acid which is a substance that is a natural enamel whitener. Eat them or crush them into a paste together with baking soda in order to whiten your teeth.

   5.  Eating apples

      Apples are an exception in the fruit section because although they are sweet they are also high in water and fiber which ultimately produces saliva leading to washing off bacteria and food particles from your mouth.