Nutrition and Your Prysm Score: Eat the Rainbow, Boost Your Defenses

When you scan with Prysm iO, you’re measuring your skin carotenoid levels—a key indicator of your antioxidant status. These antioxidants, found mainly in colorful fruits and vegetables, help protect your body from free radicals and support long-term wellness.

_Source:_{Chen et al., Biogerontology, 2024}

Here’s the exciting part: the nutritional choices you make—adding more fruits and vegetables high in carotenoids and certain supplements—can help move your Prysm Score in the right direction.

Carotenoids Matters

Think of carotenoids as natural shields inside your body. They come from plant pigments—the same ones that give carrots their orange color, corn its yellow color, and tomatoes their red color. A diet rich in carotenoids:

Helps maintain skin, eye, bone, gut, brain, and cardiovascular health

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Supports your immune defenses

_Sources_:_{Khalil et al., Prev Nutr Food Sci, 2021,}_{Chew & Park, J Nutr, 2004,}_{Tapiero et al., Biomed Pharmacother, 2004}

Contributes to overall cellular protection and healthy aging

_Sources_:_{Crupi et al., Antioxidants (Basel), 2023}_,_{Tapiero et al., Biomed Pharmacother, 2004,}_{Tanaka et al., Molecules, 2}012

Since your body can’t make carotenoids on its own, you need to get them through food or supplements. That’s why your nutrition choices show up in your Prysm Score.

Eat the Rainbow

The simplest and most delicious way to raise your antioxidant levels is to eat a wide variety of colorful fruits and vegetables. Each color provides unique benefits:

Red (tomatoes, watermelon, pink grapefruit) → rich in lycopene

Orange (carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, mangoes) → packed with beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin

Yellow/Green (spinach, kale, broccoli, corn, peas) → lutein and zeaxanthin, important for eye health

Blue/Purple (blueberries, blackberries, eggplant) → anthocyanins, a complementary group of antioxidants

Eating a mix of colors keeps your antioxidant network strong and balanced.

Your Move: Simple Actions That Can Help Boost Your Score

Add one extra color to every meal - A green side salad, a handful of berries, or roasted carrots can make a measurable difference.
Snack smarter - Swap chips or candy for bell pepper slices, cherry tomatoes, or fruit.
Smoothie power - Blend spinach, mango, and berries for a carotenoid-packed drink.
Stay consistent - Carotenoids build up in your skin over weeks, not days—steady habits matter more than quick fixes.
Bridge the gap - Can’t guarantee a perfect diet every day? You’re not alone. Prysm Certified supplements can help raise your score over time.

Track, Reflect, Improve

Your Prysm Score connects your food and supplement choices to real results. Start with a baseline scan, then check often. Notice how consistently eating colorful meals can help shift your score upward.

Imagine your plate as a paint palette—the more colors you add, the stronger your antioxidant network becomes. You’ll see that your diet is making a difference.

Next Step: Do your baseline scan today. Then, for the next 4 weeks, add at least one extra fruit or vegetable color to your meals. Keep building on this habit and rescan frequently to see the impact.

Back By Research, Designed For Results

Even short-term changes matter: in a clinical trial, children who drank a carotenoid-rich juice showed higher skin carotenoid levels within weeks.

_Source:_{Aguilar et al., J Acad Nutr Diet, 2015}

Science backs this up: in a study of more than 25,000 adults, higher carotenoid intake was associated with slower biological aging.