How Many Fruits & Vegetables You Should Eat Each Day

Try to include in your salads at least 12 different vegetables. At Safeway now they have an organic spring salad mix (comes in a box) that includes about 10 different greens. There should always be at least one thing sprouted - of course more is better. If you are buying sprouts, Safeway also has a fairly large selection of sprouts so having several different types of sprouts in your salad is good. My favorites are sunflower and pea sprouts.

Another good thing to do is make a list of all of the vegetables that are good to put in a salad so you can have a good variation from day to day. Here's my list: salad greens including spinach, chard, kale, sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, avocados, onions, peppers (red, green, orange & yellow), carrots, celery, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage (green & red), jerusalem artichokes, corn (raw, cut off the cob). I also usually throw in some type of soaked chopped nut. Another good rule of thumb is your salads should be very colorful, because every color contains a different variety of nutrients.

Your daily count of raw fruits and vegetables should be no less than 15, which is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you eating the mixed salad greens and juicing each day. Try to eat 3-4 different fruits (different colors) in the morning. This can include dried fruits but those should be kept to a minimum because even though they contain natural sugars, they still register as a sugar in your body, and dried fruits have a much higher concentration of sugars. I like to throw them in for flavor, like a handful of raisins, or my fave - mango.

Your fresh vegetable juice should contain at least 4 different vegetables with carrot always being your base (75%). An excellent detox combination is: carrot, beet, cucumber and spinach. A really good book to buy is "Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices" by N.W. Walker D. Sc., as he gives a lot of different combinations, and what is good for which ailment (example: for arthritis, a combination of carrot, beet, cucumber, spinach and celery is good).

Well, those are my tidbits for the day.

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