There are so many types of vegetables, right? Let’s try and separate them into two categories:
– vegetables containing starch : potatoes, peas, beans, soy beans which contain a high amount of calories, almost like cereals
– vegetables without starch, which you can consume raw: green salad, cabbage, pepper, squash, tomatoes etc, which you can consume FORGETTING THE QUANTITIES!!!
Advantages:
-100 g boiled beetroot contains ½ of the daily recommended doses of folic acid
-3 raw carrots per day improve your digestion due to their fibre content
– 100 g red beans offer you 15% of the an adult’s protein daily necessary and 33 % of the daily recommended fibre doses
-120 g soy beans assures 15% of the daily recommended Calcium doses
-5 mushrooms daily offer 50% of Copper ratio
-100g broccoli contain 2 mg Iron, which means 25 % of the daily recommended doses and Calcium as in a glass of milk
-100g of spinach or endives assure half of the daily recommended vitamin B doses
-1 green pepper contains 3 times more vitamin C than an adult needs daily
-1 glass (200 ml) of tomato juice contains 16 ml lycopen, which means exactly the recommended daily doses
-Brussels sprout contain 2 times more vitamin B that cauliflower or cabbage