Healthy Nutrition-Smarter Salad Greens
My Yoga Online has posted a great new nutrition article by Karla Heintz, BSc Nutrition, Smarter Salad Greens. Learn about the better choices for making your salad more interesting, nutritious and packed full of healthy dietary benefits.
With summer soon approaching it is a perfect time to become green leaf savvy for any patio meal. But often we get stuck in a rut of buying the same old salad greens–and our body gets bored.
A good rule of thumb when out shopping is to find ones richer in color as this means it is packed with more nutrition punch. In my ten years of being in the nutrition field, it still surprises me how often families continue to buy iceberg lettuce, or the salads in a bag with the main component being iceberg lettuce. There are better options out there.
Dark green leafy vegetables hold valuable fat-soluble vitamins like Vitamin A, D, E and K. Being fat soluble means they need fat to be present to obtain ideal absorption so be sure to accompany your salad with a healthy fat such as nuts or olive oil. This greenery is also packed with folate, iron, potassium, fiber and the greatly needed calcium – which is lacking in both young and old.
Read more about the BETTER SALAD PICKINGS offering more nutritional bang!
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