{"id":17768,"date":"2021-08-02T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2021-07-12T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:08:03","slug":"speaking-of-kale-and-other-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/02\/speaking-of-kale-and-other-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Kale (and Other Vegetables)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How often do you eat kale, spinach, collard greens, and\nother dark green vegetables? Daily? A few times a week? Once a week? Monthly?\nIf you live in the United States and answered \u201cdaily,\u201d you\u2019re among the\napproximately 26% of Americans who eat dark green vegetables every day.1<\/sup>\nThe other 74% of Americans eat them less often. Maybe if you\u2019re vegan, you eat\ndark green vegetables more often. A study of Seventh-day Adventists found that\nvegans ate about 40% more leafy green vegetables daily than did nonvegetarians.2<\/sup>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Why eat dark\ngreen vegetables? They\u2019re a good way to get nutrients like calcium (true of\ngreens other than spinach), iron, vitamin C, and potassium as well as a variety\nof phytonutrients.  They can be prepared\nquickly or eaten raw or cooked long and slow, if you prefer.  Try a massaged kale salad with a lime-tahini\ndressing or collards with tomatoes and garlic, or shred greens and add to soups\nand stir-fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Red and orange\nvegetables like carrots, red peppers, and tomatoes are eaten more commonly than\ndark green vegetables. In the United States, 79% of adults on average eat red\nand orange vegetables daily.1<\/sup> How about you? Dark orange vegetables\nare especially noteworthy for their vitamin A content and tomatoes for\nsupplying lycopene and vitamin C. Vitamin A is needed for a healthy immune\nsystem; lycopene and vitamin C are antioxidants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     So, crunch a\ncarrot, steam some kale, slice some tomatoes \u2013 let\u2019s try to eat dark green and\nred or orange vegetables every day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Ansai N, Wambogo EA. Fruit and vegetable consumption\namong adults in the United States, 2015\u20132018. NCHS Data Brief, no 397.\nHyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. DOI: https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15620\/cdc:100470<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Orlich MJ, Jaceldo-Siegl K, Sabat\u00e9 J, Fan J, Singh PN,\nFraser GE. Patterns of food consumption among vegetarians and non-vegetarians. Br\nJ Nutr<\/em>. 2014;112:1644-1653.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For recipes using leafy green vegetables see vrg.org\/journal\/vj2001may\/2001_may_greens.php<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For recipes using carrots see vrg.org\/journal\/vj2003issue1\/2003_issue1_carrot.php<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on U.S. vegetable consumption see vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/21\/do-you-eat-close-to-17-pounds-of-carrots-a-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD How often do you eat kale, spinach, collard greens, and other dark green vegetables? Daily? A few times a week? Once a week? Monthly? If you live in the United States and answered \u201cdaily,\u201d you\u2019re among the approximately 26% of Americans who eat dark green vegetables every day.1 The other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17768\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}