Tuesday, September 1, 2009

September Challenge - Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day

This one seems pretty straight-forward, right? Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Well, how much is a serving? I just had a salad at lunch that included two large cherry tomatos, two cucumber slices, and a pile of lettuce. Is that one serving? Two? I checked the following website to find out. Basically, one serving is about a half-cup.

http://nutrition.about.com/od/fruitsandvegetables/f/servingfruit.htm

Here are some examples:

Fruits
  • one banana
  • six strawberries
  • two plums
  • fifteen grapes
  • one apple
  • one peach
  • one half cup of orange or other fruit juice
Vegetables

  • five broccoli florets
  • ten baby carrots
  • one roma tomato
  • 3/4 cup tomato juice
  • half of a baked sweet potato
  • one ear of corn
  • four slices of an onion

Good luck!

Jason