10 Best Pregnancy Food Combos to Boost Your Prenatal Diet

5. Strawberries + Red Peppers = Preventing Preterm Delivery

Vitamin C supplementation (at least 80 milligrams per day) may help you avoid preterm labor. This is because vitamin C helps to strengthen your body’s membranes, notably the amniotic membranes, which can induce premature labor if they break.

Vitamin C-rich foods also aid iron absorption; iron is required for the synthesis of hemoglobin, which transports oxygen throughout the body. According to Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D., L.D., a Chicago-based American Dietetic Association spokesman, “eating vitamin C foods with vegetable sources of iron can help the iron get absorbed into your body.”