Vegetable nutrition facts

Why should we get diet rich in vegetable nutrition?

What are the health benefits of vegetables?

...Well!

• Vegetables, like fruits, are low in calories and fats but contain good amounts of vitamins and minerals. All the Green-Yellow-Orange vegetables are rich sources of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, beta-carotene, vitamin B-complex, vitamin-C, vitamin-A, and vitamin K.
• As in fruits, vegetables too are home for many antioxidants. These health benefiting phyto-chemical compounds firstly; help protect the human body from oxidant stress, diseases, and cancers, and secondly; help the body develop the capacity to fight against these by boosting immunity.
• Additionally, vegetables are packed with soluble as well as insoluble dietary fiber known asnon-starch polysaccharides (NSP) such as cellulose, mucilage, hemi-cellulose, gums, pectin...etc. These substances absorb excess water in the colon, retain a good amount of moisture in the fecal matter, and help its smooth passage out of the body. Thus, sufficient fiber offers protection from conditions like chronic constipation, hemorrhoids, colon cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, and rectal fissures.

...Go for greens today to help you stay fit and healthy!

Artichoke	Arugula	Asparagus
Bamboo shoots	Basella	Beets
Bell pepper	Bitter gourd	Bok choy
Broccoli	Brussel sprouts	Butternut squash
Cabbage	Carrots	Cassava
Cauliflower	Collard greens	Cucumber
Eggplant	Endive	Fennel
Kale	Kohlrabi	Leeks
Lettuce	Lotus root	Moringa pods
Mustard greens	Okra	Onion
Parsnips	Peas	Potato
Pumpkin	Purslane	Radicchio
Radish	Rhubarb	Shallots
Spinach	Sweet corn	Sweet potato
Swiss chard	Tomato	Turnips
Watercress	Winged Bean	Yams
Zucchini

Recently, vegetable nutrition has widely drawn the attention of fitness conscious as well as food scientists alike for their proven health benefits. Majority of day-to-day used vegetables are very low in calories, and saturated fats. Just for example Celery holds just 16 calories per 100 g. There is a long list of vegetables whose calorie is less than 20 per 100 g such as bottle gourd, bitter melon, cabbage, chinese cabbage, bok-choy, eggplant, endive, spinach, summer squash, swiss chard, etc. Scientific studies have shown that these low-calorie but nutrient-rich foods help human body stay fit, and free from diseases.

Furthermore, human body spends a considerable amount of energy for the metabolism of foods, which is known as BMR or Basal metabolism rate. So just imagine…when you add lots of vegetable nutrition in your everyday diet, in fact, you set to lose more weight than you would gain…Right!..This is the concept behind the "negative calorie foods."