5-A-Day, Too Much For Most Americans to Swallow
New guidelines now recommend consuming eight or more fruits and vegetable servings a day. Botanic Choice offers 10 pain-free ways to add more fruits and veggies to diet.
Hobart, IN (Vocus) August 31, 2010
Just when consumers got used to the idea that they should be eating “5-a-Day,” new guidelines now recommend consuming eight or more fruits and vegetable servings a day. That comes out to about 4 ½ cups a day. Few Americans eat that much and that’s too bad because fruits and vegetables provide lots of vitamins, minerals and fiber for good health.
Because September is Fruits & Veggies – More Matters™ month, Botanic Choice has developed a list of 10 easy ways to add more fruits and veggies to the daily diet.
1. Add broccoli florets or sliced zucchini to pizza topping.
2. With lasagna, tuck spinach, shredded carrots or sliced eggplant between the layers.
3. For all sandwiches, add lettuce, tomato and onion.
4. At work, snack on dried fruit instead of heading to the vending machine.
5. Add grapes, apple slices and pears to chicken salad.
6. For breakfast, add broccoli, mushrooms or bell peppers to an omelet.
7. Add canned veggies like sliced green beans or fresh mushrooms to store-bought pasta sauce.
8. Add fruit slices to gelatin.
9. Make fruit popsicles with 100% juice.
10. Mix fat-free granola and fat-free yogurt. Top with berries.
While fresh is always best, canned, dried, and frozen fruits without added sugar, and vegetables without added salt or butter are also good options.
According to Tim Cleland, President Botanic Choice, “It doesn’t take much effort to add just one more fruit or vegetable to your meal or snack and the rewards are so great – increased energy, digestive support, overall health boost. You really can’t get enough of them.”
About Botanic Choice
Indiana Botanic Gardens, Inc. is a leading provider of more than 500 high-quality nutritional supplements. Their line of vitamins, aromatherapy, and homeopathic remedies are sold through their catalogs, web site http://www. BotanicChoice. com, and retail store at 3401 West 37th Ave, Hobart, Indiana (800-644-8327).
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