Green leafy vegetables vs. green vegetables: What's healthier and how much we need? - The Rike

How green leafy vegetables and green vegetables good for health is? Which one should eat more than others? And how much we should eat within a day?

Green vegetables are filled with fiber, vitamins, and minerals that will help us keeping healthies. Eating an adequate amount of greens to protect us from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and might be help us live longer. 

And is it green vegetables better than green leafy vegetables? To realize whether leafy greens that healthier than normal greens, let look into some advices from the interviews with experts. 

Carb content

Green leafy vegetables included less carbs than normal green vegetables. For example, one cup of 8.6 grams of carbs is equal of one cup spinach included 4 grams of carbs. 

Nutrition

Green leafy vegetables is richer nutrition rather than normal green vegetables as researchers from experts. This means 1 portion of green leafy vegetables = 2 portions of normal green vegetable as an expert noticed. 

Buying fresh vegetables

In current busy period, we don't have much time to go and pick up vegetables for ourselves and end up ordering online. Un-freshed green leafy vegetables will not provide to you adequate nutrients. And this un-fresh vegetables will not provide enough nutrients. So, it's best to go and pick up your own vegetables from the right vendor. 

Do not overcook the vegetables

Overcooking vegetables will eliminate the iron, folate, vitamins, and phosphorus that included in vegetables. Just Boil it enough for time and temperatures for get best nutrients in vegetables. 

How much green do we need daily?

This is an important question because it's good for your health. As researcher from experts, adults should consume 2.5 cups of leafy greens and 2.5 cups of normal green vegetables in a day. So, 5 cups of vegetables will help much heathier for yourselves. 

Other foods you should consume

Besides green vegetables, you should provide more fruits, min leaves, tea which included much nutrients as well extremely. 

Source referred from ETimes - Entertainment times 

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