Fruit And Veggie Diet
Fruit and veggie diet health benefits
People choose to add fruits and vegetables to their diet for a variety of reasons including:
- to eat the recommended 5 to 9 servings daily
- as part of a vegetarian or vegan diet lifestyle
- to try a raw foods diet for health
- to reduce daily calorie intake for weight loss or anti-aging
- to increase health benefits from natural polyphenols
- to add healthy fiber, vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, and phytonutrients to their daily diet
- to make delicious meals and low calorie treats daily, and more.
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Eat a rainbow daily
Nutritionists recommend eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables daily to get a variety of nutrients including vitamins, minerals, trace phytonutrients, and polyphenols.
It's easy to get yellow-orange tropical or citrus fruits, and yellow peppers or orange carrots for the vegetables.
Red fruits include apples or strawberries, and for vegetables, peppers or tomato products are usually available.
Blue is more difficult, but fresh or frozen berries are useful in a variety of recipes.
Purple fruits include plums and berries. Purple veggies used to be limited to eggplant, but now purple potatoes and purple carrots have hit many markets.
Green fruits include green seedless grapes and apples, while there is an abundance of dark leafy greens to use in cooking and fresh salads, even if you have to grow your own in pots.
Remember, 9 servings daily is not difficult when you realize each serving is only a 1/2 cup in size.
This website supports adding the recommended 9 (1/2 cup) servings of fruits and vegetables to your healthy lifestyle, along with green tea (if appropriate).
What are the best choices?
Are you watching your calories for weight control or anti-aging?
Here are fruit and veggie diet lists arranged from low calorie to high calorie: low calorie fruit, low calorie vegetables.
Are you wondering which choices are the most nutritious?
Here is additional nutritional information to help you make selections for sugars, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and fats in your fruit and veggie diet:
- Fruits: bananas, apples, oranges, grapes, watermelon, kiwi fruit, pineapple, papaya, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries, cranberries, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, pears, Asian pears, mango, grapefruit, avocados, lemons, limes, passionfruit, pomegranate, fresh figs, persimmons, quince, tropical fruits like star fruit, guavas, kumquats, plantains, cherimoya, dried fruits like raisins, prunes, figs, apricots, apples, and many other fresh, canned, or frozen fruits, lemonade and fruit juices, fruit snacks
- Vegetables: potato (baked, french fried, mashed), corn, green beans, baked beans, vegetarian chili, tomatoes, mixed salads, lettuce, coleslaw, mushrooms, squash, cauliflower, cabbage, asparagus, broccoli, sprouts, beets, eggplant, spinach, asparagus, onions, onion rings, carrots, celery, vegetarian wraps, vegetarian pizza, soybeans, artichokes, sweet peppers, vegetable soups, vegetable juices
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