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Super Simple Ways To Eat More Fruit And Vegetables In 2023
Ditch Diets And Eat The Rainbow
As it’s January, I want to give some information on ways to improve your health without resorting to dieting. My tip for the day is to eat more fruit and vegetables. I love vegetables, so this is really easy for me, but what if you’re like my husband, a confirmed vegetable sceptic? Simple, find ways to hide them! Here are some simple ways to eat more fruit and vegetables.
What Counts As 1 Of Your 5 A Day?
- 80g of Fresh, Frozen or Tinned Fruit or Vegetables
- 30g of Dried Fruit
- 150ml of fruit juice or smoothie
- 80g of beans or pulses
Fruits
It is my deeply held belief that you are either a fruit person or a vegetable person. That’s not to say if you’re a vegetable person, you don’t like fruit, just that you have a marked preference. My sister and I are veg people, and my husband Mike is a fruit person.
Of course, eating fruit is a good thing. They contain a huge array of vitamins and minerals and far less sugar than a large bar of chocolate, for example. However, they do still have a lot of sugar, and whether it’s fructose or sucrose, it’s something you should try to…
