Vegetable Nutrition Facts

And they sure pack a lot of nutrients per calorie!

So don't be afraid to eat lots and lots of veggies :)

Speaking of calories… vegetables are very low in calories.
This makes vegetables an ideal diet food.

In fact the fat percentage of veggies is only 1%.

Vegetables make an ideal food for anyone anytime.

They don't contain any cholesterol or any saturated fat. Instead they are packed with vitamins, minerals, and many thousands of phytochemicals.

For example:
There are many thousand phytochemicals in one little tomato.

Those phytochemicals fight off cancer better than anything else you could put in your mouth!

All vegetables are healthy for you. And they are also all healthy in different ways. What one vegetable doesn't contain, another does!
So it's a good idea to eat many different kinds each day.

Veggies also work together. Together many of them are more powerful than alone. For example, eating a carrot is really good for you, and so is eating a tomato. But eating them together is even better!

This is because the phytonutrient lycophene in the tomato helps in the absorption of the beta carotene in the carrot. This makes them a perfect combination! Remember that when making your salad today :)

Another good thing to remember is, if you are looking to get more iron out of your vegetables (especially important for vegans and vegetarians), combine an iron rich veggie with a veggie high in vitamin C.

Best iron-rich veggies

1 medium artichoke 3.9 mg

100 gram parsley 3.6 mg

Also worth mentioning are beans, beet greens, spinach, kale and broccoli.

Best vitamin C-rich veggies

1 red sweet pepper 320 mg

100 gram parsley 182 mg

1 chili pepper 109 mg

Caught a cold?

Bell peppers will help!

Some vegetables are higher in vitamin C than some fruits. As I wrote above, one bell pepper has about 320 mg vitamin C, which is much higher than for example an orange (75 mg) or a kiwi (74 mg).

So next time you catch a cold, you know what to do!

Vegetable List

(Click on a veggie to read more about it)

Broccoli Nutrition Facts

Carrot Nutrition Facts

Celery Nutrition Facts

Eggplant Nutrition Facts

Lettuce Nutrition Facts

Tomato Nutrition Facts

Most Contaminated Vegetable List

Buy organic when it comes to...

• Celery (most of the time celery has been treated with more than 60 pesticides)

• Cucumbers (imported)

• Sweet Bell Peppers

• Potatoes

• Spinach

• Kale

• Collard Greens

And if you can, buy only organic vegetables and organic fruits.

Hope you find some organic market close to where you live, otherwise just try to wash your veggies really well - but most of the time it is really difficult to know how much of the chemicals and yukky stuff we have been able to wash away and how much still is left. And the problem is that farmers also put chemicals in the soil vegetables grow in...

How Much Vegetables Should I Eat?

Now when we are talking about vegetable nutrition facts, you probably also want to know how much vegetables you should eat every day.

Health expert Frederic Patenaude says that we should eat 1-2 pounds of vegetables a day, and ideally half of them should be eaten raw and the other half steamed.

Broccoli and spinach are examples of veggies that are really good to steam a little. But of course they can be eaten raw too - it is just that broccoli is hard to chew and it is easier to eat large amounts of spinach if it is steamed (because it shrinks a bit).

Learning about vegetable nutrition facts is good, because the more we learn the more likely we will remember to buy them. It is important that we eat healthy, right?

Try to continue making healthy foods a big part of your daily diet. You can experiment a bit with different vegetable recipes, because this will help you find a few dishes you love, that you can make over and over again.

Vegetables and Weight Loss

If you would be interested in reading about vegetables in connection to weight loss, read the page I have written called Vegetable Soup Diet.

Another page that might interest you:
Vegetable Juicing Recipes and Nutrition Facts

If you would want to see vegetable pictures for some reason, I have many for you here: Pictures of Vegetables

Diet and Exercise for Health
Diet and exercise plus a little education can help you become and stay healthy. Don't live your life so that medical professionals and drugs are needed to fix you once you're broken.

I hope you liked this vegetable nutrition facts page - if you want to read more vegetable information, go to the next page:
Nutrition Facts of Vegetables

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Reference for the contaminated vegetable list: http://www.foodnews.org/methodology.php

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