However, many people do not like to eat vegetables and fruits, finding them tasteless. Others believe that the nutrition in meat is much higher than that in fruits and vegetables, fish, and they eat fruits and vegetables less frequently. Such a diet is not correct. The human body needs a lot of nutrients found in fruits and vegetables, such as trace elements, calcium, iron, zinc, tin, etc. These are the various nutrients we need for growth. In the short term, a lack of these fruit and vegetable nutrients can cause minor problems, such as yellowing of the skin. In the long run, this poses a significant risk to health and wellness. More young people rely on the capital of their youth, eating according to their moods, favoring meat and fish without restraint, enjoying lavish dinners with expensive delicacies like abalone and shark fins, but unwilling to take time to supplement their intake of fruits and vegetables. In the long term, this makes it easy to encounter health issues in old age. In summary, nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables provide essential nutritional supplements for health and well-being. First, let's look at the tremendous nutritional value vegetables offer.
Vegetables are rich in nutrients. Vegetables, when cooked into food, differ from other non-food plants (mostly herbal). Types include: 1) melons, 2) green leafy vegetables, 3) eggplant, 4) Chinese cabbage, 5) tubers, 6) true root class, 7) bulb, 8) kale, 9) legumes, 10) perennial vegetable species, 11) water lettuce, 12) fungi, and 13) other classes, etc., etc. We understand that each day one should consume two kilos of vegetables. Vegetables are one of the essential foods in people’s lives. However, regarding the nutritional value of vegetables, some people do not fully understand it. The nutritional value of vegetables should not be underestimated. It is well known that vegetables can provide a variety of vitamins and minerals necessary for the body; 90% of the essential vitamin C and 60% of vitamin A come from vegetables, showing the contribution of vegetables to human health. Additionally, there are a wide variety of phytochemicals in vegetables, recognized as active ingredients beneficial to health, such as carotenoids, diallyl compounds, dimethyl sulfide compounds. Nutrients in fruits and vegetables have been found to effectively prevent chronic and degenerative diseases. According to statistics, over 2 billion people are exposed to environmental pollution causing various diseases, and how to solve the problem of large amounts of oxygen free radicals due to environmental pollution has become an increasing concern worldwide. One effective way to solve this is by increasing food antioxidants to remove excessive damaging reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen. Studies have found that vegetables contain many vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and related plant chemicals and enzymes that are effective antioxidants. Vegetables, being low in sugar, salt, and fat, are healthy foods that also effectively reduce the damage of environmental pollution on the human body. Furthermore, nutritionists have analyzed the nutritional content of various vegetables, closely linking the nutritional value of vegetables to their color. The deeper the color of the vegetables, the higher their nutritional value generally is; the lighter the color, the lower the nutritional value generally is. The nutritional value of vegetables from high to low can be divided into several categories: green, yellow, and colorless. Green vegetables, such as rape, celery, shepherd’s purse, spinach, leeks, have the highest nutritional value; those yellow vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, lily, Chinese cabbage, green beans, and potatoes, have medium nutritional value; melon, bamboo shoots, wild rice, and colorless vegetables have the lowest nutritional value. Nutritionists point out that the shepherd’s purse has the highest nutritional value among vegetables. Although the shepherd’s purse is a native wild plant, its vitamin A content is higher than carrots, its vitamin B content is higher than alfalfa, its vitamin C is higher than oranges, its calcium is more than tofu, and its iron is similar to red amaranth. Moreover, it is rich in vitamin P, which has hemostatic, diuretic, and antipyretic medicinal functions. Nutritionists have also found that different colors of the same kind of vegetables have different nutritional values. For example, purple eggplant has a higher nutritional value than white eggplant. The reason is that purple eggplant is rich in Vitamin P, which enhances microvascular resistance and prevents blood vessel embrittlement. Therefore, patients suffering from hypertension, hemoptysis embolism, are usually advised to eat eggplant. Yellow carrots have a higher nutritional value than red ones, illustrating the issue. Thus, vegetables play a crucial role in today’s society in protecting our physical and mental health and cannot be overlooked.
Vegetables not only help us solve some life damages caused by environmental restoration but also contain a rich variety of nutrients and are an important way of intake of essential elements. We will discuss the influence of vegetables on vitamins and talk about it briefly. We know that one of the nutritional values of vegetables is being rich in vitamins necessary for our body, organic compounds necessary for growth and metabolism of organisms. Divided into two types: fat-soluble vitamins and water-soluble vitamins. The former includes vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, etc., while the latter includes B vitamins and vitamin C. Lack of vitamins in humans and animals leads to abnormal growth and specific lesions. So, vitamins are essential nutrients, and we must address the importance of vitamin intake. Of course, some feel that taking some vitamin tablets appropriately can replace vegetables. However, this is not true. Vitamins cannot replace vegetables in providing vitamins because the vitamins in vegetables consist of natural ingredients at a certain percentage, collecting multi-vitamins; whereas vitamin preparations are mostly synthetic, differing in nature. Vegetables, though not purely vitamins, contain natural substances similar to vitamins in their roles in the human body, such as chlorophyll, making vegetables more comprehensively beneficial for health. Of course, vegetables also contain minerals, trace elements, carbohydrates, cellulose, and non-vitamin nutrients, making their nutrition more comprehensive. Therefore, replacing vegetables with vitamin preparations is almost impossible. Thus, obtaining necessary nutrients through eating vegetables is very necessary. On the other hand, vegetables cannot completely replace vitamin preparations. For instance, vitamin C—according to statistics, about 30 percent of people in China lack vitamin C. This is because achieving the body's needs requires eating a pound of vegetables and half a catty of fruit every day, including peppers, spinach, tomatoes, cauliflower, bitter melon, and fruits like citrus, red fruits, strawberries, oranges, kiwi, and wild jujube, with dark and light fruits equally balanced, which is difficult to achieve. Vitamin C is a water-soluble ingredient, so when cooking vegetables, it is easy to lose; vitamin C fears high temperatures, and prolonged cooking or heating damages both vegetables and vitamin C significantly; vitamin C is easily oxidized by air, and the longer vegetables and fruits are stored, the greater the loss of vitamin C. Here, we introduce the benefits of organic vegetables. Organic vegetables come from organic agricultural production systems, produced according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture's production and technical standards and certified by independent organic food certification bodies to allow the use of organic food logos. Organic vegetables must comply with organic agriculture production throughout the entire production process, meaning the entire production process must strictly follow organic food production technical standards, not use pesticides, fertilizers, growth hormones, and other chemical substances, not use genetic engineering technology, and must undergo quality control and review by independent organic food certification agencies throughout the process. Organic vegetable production follows organic food production and environmental quality requirements and technical specifications to ensure features of being pollution-free, nutritious, and high-quality, allowing the human body to better intake nutrients from vegetables. Vegetables play a significant role in our body, providing essential trace elements and vitamins for normal growth and development. We should usually pay attention to some vegetable-eating habits to protect our health, nutrition, and live longer. Fruits are equally important, rich in nutrients and a variety of good nutrients for the human body. Having discussed vegetables, let's now look at the impact of fruits on our body. Fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamins and trace elements needed by our body, effectively condition the body by eating different fruits. For example, apples can improve the respiratory system and lung function. Fruits differ from vegetables. Vegetable intake can be a necessity, but fruits help supplement the body's nutritional needs, and proper use of fruits can help us with physical conditioning and improve physical fitness, benefiting health greatly. Eating appropriate and suitable fruits is very necessary and important. Additionally, different fruits have different effects. For example, apples have a natural pleasant aroma, significantly eliminating the sense of oppression, improving the respiratory system and lung function, lowering cholesterol, aiding weight loss; Baltic dissolved blocking avant-garde in the organization of protein and blood clots plays a role, improving local blood circulation, eliminating inflammation and edema, and the Baltic in sugar, salt, and enzymes have a diuretic effect; the antioxidant effect of grape seed is not only 20 times that of vitamin C and vitamin E but 50 times. Grape seeds contain a lot of OPC antioxidants, a potent flavonoid mainly present in the skin and seeds, with red grape seed OPC being an effective source key for antioxidant activity, increasing the human body's immunity to oxidative damage and slowing down the aging process. Therefore, I say that fruits serve as health supplements restoring balance to our body in daily life. Meanwhile, different fruits in different seasons have different effects. Proper consumption can help us through each season, bringing solutions to our physical problems, making us more comfortable in summer and more nourishing in winter. Truly, they are our health heroes. Fruits not only aid in physical conditioning but also alleviate and eliminate some physical problems effectively. Apples, for example, have a laxative effect, prevent and control high blood pressure, and prevent aging. Apples have a smooth surface, bright color, pleasant fragrance, sweet taste, and are available in many types, such as red bananas, Fuji apples, yellow bananas, etc. Apple is planted globally and is one of the highest-yielding fruits. Apples are both nutritious and popular fruits and also act as medicine for treating certain diseases. Modern medical research shows: Apples contain glucose, fructose, protein, fat, vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin E, phosphorus, calcium, zinc, malic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, potassium, sodium, etc. The nutrition contained in apples is both comprehensive and easy to digest, making them very suitable for infants, young children, the elderly, and patients to eat. Not only that, children can combine the potassium in apples with excess sodium in the body to excrete it, preventing excessive salt intake, which can lead to eating apples. As the saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apples also have therapeutic roles in health care, such as: (1) diarrhea treatment; (2) purgation; (3) suitable for pregnant women to eat; (4) prevention and treatment of hypertension; (5) increase appetite, benefit infant growth; (6) (7) prevention and control of blood pots; (8) weight loss; (9) prevent aging; (10) prevent diabetes; (11) enhance memory; (12) eliminate fatigue. We also introduce here one or two examples of apple diets. The first treats diarrhea, using materials: 200 grams of apple, hawthorn powder 15 g. Method: Wash the apples, peel and remove the core, mash them, mix thoroughly with hawthorn powder, and consume twice. If you're interested, you can try. Different fruits in different seasons have different nutritional values. Taking summer as an example, summer fruits are abundant, not only exuding a seductive fragrance but also having a good cosmetic effect. The nutritional content and nutritional value of fruits and vegetables are one of the important sources of human vitamins and minerals. Various fruits generally contain more carbohydrates and vitamins and also contain special biologically active substances, thus having high nutritional value and health benefits. Eating fruit is healthy, but consumption must be scientific; improper eating can affect human health. For diabetic patients, for instance: appropriately eating pineapple, red bayberry, cherry, and other fruits can improve insulin secretion and have a hypoglycemic effect. Patients with coronary heart disease should eat peaches, plums, apricots, strawberries, and fresh dates, as these fruits are rich in niacin and vitamin C, having blood fat and cholesterol-lowering effects. Patients with myocardial infarction: eat more bananas, oranges. Patients with heart failure or edema: eat more fruits with high water content. Things have two sides, both good and bad. So, we need specific analysis for any specific solutions and operations. Therefore, what we should do is make good use of the magical properties of fruits and apply them to different places according to their different roles. So, truly grasp the benefits of fruits in your hands. Really do eat more fruits, choosing those really suitable for the effectiveness of your own fruit. Also, according to personal taste, physique, and preferences, choose your own fruit, such as elderly people who, due to stomach coldness, should avoid cold fruits like pears and bananas; pregnant women should not eat fruits with high sugar content like lychees and longans, as during pregnancy, high blood sugar levels, if consumed repeatedly, may lead to diabetes; usually, those prone to colds should regularly consume fruits rich in Vitamin C, such as lemons and navel oranges. If no special circumstances, fruits can be widely selected, ideally eating different fruits every day, just as we usually bite the same day, should eat different varieties of dishes. Fruits can provide rich nutrients for the body, so eating some fruit, as much as possible, brings health benefits. Vegetables and fruits contain a variety of beneficial nutrients for our body and mind, such as different trace elements and minerals, rich in nutritional value. In their daily lives, many people pay little attention to the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables, yet fruit and vegetable nutrition is very rich, so attention should be paid to the importance of fruit and vegetable nutrition on the human body. The Chinese Nutrition Society has repeatedly emphasized the important role of fruits and vegetables in a balanced diet, while experts from home and abroad have called for adequate daily intake of fruits and vegetables to maintain a balanced diet and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases. Thus, the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables should not be underestimated. The State Council Information Office has pointed out issues such as insufficient vegetable intake and variety. The Ministry of Health has carried out measures accordingly. Experts suggest understanding the Dietary Nutrition Pyramid, ensuring adequate intake of fruits and vegetables to maintain a balanced diet, and starting from children to cultivate good dietary habits of loving to eat fruits and vegetables. The Ministry of Health has also released guidelines recommending a public intake of 200 g of fruit and 300 grams of vegetables daily to prevent cancer and disease; variable rainbow fruits and vegetables add color to health, encouraging intake of fruits and vegetables of different colors; eating fresh fruits and vegetables, nutrition becomes more accessible, as the nutrition of fresh fruits and vegetables is more easily absorbed by the body; maintaining a balanced diet for a healthy life. Since the launch of the Health Knowledge Dissemination Incentive Program in 2005, each year selects chronic diseases or risk factors threatening public health as the theme, this year mainly conducting activities to eat dynamically balanced, a balanced diet series, making full communication of chronic prevention and control knowledge and promoting a healthy lifestyle, serving as a strategic platform. Paying attention to healthcare for one's own health and longevity emphasizes the importance of fruit and vegetable nutrition on the human body, developing the good habit of eating fruits and vegetables as one's own responsibility, taking responsibility for health, self-starting. Related articles...
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