6 Sensual Foods to Boost Your Sex Life

Being sexually intimate with someone you love is one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Sex can make people happier and healthier. Sex may improve immune function, brain health, and libido.

It also promotes longevity, healthy blood pressure, heart health, restful sleep, hormonal balance, and may lessen pain and stress. Emotionally, sex can help us have greater trust and love in our relationships, better emotional expression, and a stronger ability to handle emotional conflict.

That said, maintaining a healthy sex drive is extremely important to overall well-being.

Another of life’s sensual pleasures, eating, is closely tied to sex. Perhaps that’s why we have a name for foods that help improve the libido. They’re called aphrodisiacs, after Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love.

Here are 6 foods that are incredibly nutrient-rich, highly sensual, and loaded with the libido-boosting nutrients that support healthy levels of sex hormones, blood flow, and elevated mood – just in time for Valentine’s Day!

6 Sensual Foods to Boost Your Sex Life

Sensual Foods to Eat With Your Lover | BrainMD

Fruit

Visually stunning in shape and color, fragrant and delicious, fruit is naturally sensual. It’s also filled with a treasure trove of nutrients and flavonoids that help to promote greater blood flow to the genitals, which allows for healthy sexual function.

Pomegranate, berries, watermelon, apples, citrus, cherries, and dark-colored grapes – these luscious fruits (among others) are rich in vitamin C and flavonoids that boost the synthesis of nitric oxide, a vasodilator. The vasodilating effects of nitric oxide relaxes the inner muscles of your blood vessels, allowing vessels to widen and blood flow to increase. Healthy blood flow is essential for optimal sexual function.

Delight in fruit! Feed your lover grapes, share the sections of an orange, or savor the sweetness of fresh strawberries together.

Zinc-Rich Oysters

Oysters are a well-known aphrodisiac. That’s because this “fruit of the sea” happens to be one of nature’s most abundant sources of zinc. Research shows that zinc deficiency is associated with low testosterone. Men and women alike need healthy levels of testosterone for a robust libido.

If oysters aren’t for you, crab or lobster will do, too. Load up on these zinc-rich sensual gifts of the sea.

Nitrate-Rich Veggies

Seduce your sweetheart with a salad!

Many of the vegetables that make for a gorgeous and delectable salad – green leafy vegetables (like spinach, watercress, mustard greens, arugula, kale, beet greens, Swiss chard, and lettuce), and root veggies (beets, turnips, and carrots) – are all rich in nitrates.

Nitrates break down and become nitric oxide, which, as you’ve just read, can help expand the blood vessels and improve blood flow.

Of course, the many nutrients in vegetables support general good health, which is also key to feeling healthy, and sexy.

Dark Chocolate

Now we’re talking.

With its rich, dark color, distinct scent, decadent flavor, and melt-in-your-mouth texture, chocolate is a sensual marvel. Add to that its sex-drive boosting properties, and there’s no doubt that chocolate is truly the food of lovers.

Dark chocolate (with a 70% or greater cocoa content) contains phenethylamine and tyrosine, which are associated with increased levels of the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine, which have mood-lifting effects. Additionally, dark chocolate’s rich flavanol content boosts vasodilation, which allows for increased blood flow.

Dark chocolate, in moderate amounts, is also an incredibly healthy food, rich in minerals, antioxidants, and other health-promoting nutrients. You can feel good about savoring every last bite.

Salmon

Rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, salmon (as well as other fatty fish such as sardines, mackerel, tuna, and halibut), is a boon to both your sexual and general health.

Because omega-3s help reduce the buildup of arterial plaque, they promote healthy blood flow, which is important to healthy sexual function in men and women. Of course, keeping the circulatory system working smoothly reduces the chances of health issues that could impair sexual function, too.

As an added benefit, these same types of fish are good sources of vitamin D. Since vitamin D deficiency is associated with low testosterone, ensuring you get plenty of this important nutrient in your diet bodes well for having healthy testosterone levels, which is key for healthy libido.

Spices

Don’t forget about the sex-boosting powers of herbs. Spice it up!

Ginger, ginseng, and garlic have been considered aphrodisiacs for centuries in various countries. Like so many of these foods, spices promote greater blood flow in the body, which supports healthy sexual function. Lesser-known spices that support healthy blood flow include cayenne pepper, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and turmeric.

Combine some of these spices with the foods mentioned above to create even greater eating pleasure.

Eating Is Sensual

Remember to engage all the senses when eating. Consider the color, visual appeal, scent, and texture of foods, in addition to taste.

The sensuality expressed while preparing and enjoying these foods, coupled with the physiological effects they can have in the body to enhance your sex drive, will surely translate to more satisfying intimacy in the bedroom.

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Kim Henderson

Kim Henderson has been writing about health, beauty, wellness and the environment for more than 15 years. She’s the author of the award-winning book 50 Simple Steps to Save the World’s Rainforests and the former editor of Healthy Living magazine. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA.