02-04-2014, 03:05 PM
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Re: 5 to 7 portions of fruit and veg
I have half a banana with breakfast, a small salad at lunch or a veg soup followed by a small handful of blueberries topped with a small amount of fromage frais. Always have veg or salad included in my evening meal and another small handful of blueberries. Not to keen on most apples or oranges but love most other fruits and eat a good variety. I love veg too apart from courgettes and aubergines. Not sure if I eat the recommend amounts but I don't really care.
02-04-2014, 03:23 PM
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Re: 5 to 7 portions of fruit and veg
Originally Posted by Stella H
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The latest advice now is that 5-7 portions of fruit and veg could help prevent cancer. First, what is actually meant by 'a portion'? With the price of fruit and veg nowadays, there will be many folk who just cannot afford to heed that advice. What do you all think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-26829333
02-04-2014, 05:05 PM
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Re: 5 to 7 portions of fruit and veg
Originally Posted by orangutan
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Just did some googling and 1) a portion is a half cup of chopped fruit or veg or a cup of leafy veg and 2) nutritional values of fresh vs frozen not huge but frozen likely to have lower water soluble vitamin content.
Seems rather a lot of veg to me!
We tend to eat more vegetables anyway and I'm not one for fruit although I'll eat in Spain if I'm there on holiday if I get the chance.
Supermarket fruit is as hard as wood and seems tasteless to me, well, last time I tried any it was.
If we had an independent green grocer I'd be tempted to try again - but we don't have one locally.
We had bubble & squeak on Monday - potato, cabbage & onion left overs from Sunday lunch!
Nuffin wrong with that - I grew up on it - and drippin' toast!! stevmk2
02-04-2014, 06:18 PM
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Re: 5 to 7 portions of fruit and veg
Portion size for 5 a day...
NHS
http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/5aday/doc...tion_guide.pdf
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