Simplifying Vegetables (2024)

FAQs

What are the best vegetables for weight loss? ›

But some fruits—especially berries, apples, and pears—were better than others for fostering weight loss. Among vegetables, soybeans, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and leafy greens were the winners.

Boiled — When cooking vegetables over a long period of time in water, some nutrients will be lost. However, if the water will be consumed with the vegetables — as in the case of soups, stews or curries — many of the vitamins will be retained in the final dish.

Healthy eating means consuming more dark green vegetables, such as broccoli, spinach, and other dark leafy greens. Include more red or orange vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, and legumes, in your diet (dry beans and peas).

In general, 1 cup of raw or cooked vegetables or vegetable juice, or 2 cups of raw leafy greens can be considered as 1 cup from the Vegetable Group.

Steaming veggies can preserve nutrients, color, shape, and texture, without having to add any unnecessary fats through ingredients like oils or butter. To steam, place food into a steam basket and cover over simmering water. Since food is not directly touching the water, vegetables retain more of their nutrients.

People can eat celery raw or cooked. Raw vegetables usually contain more nutrients than cooked ones. Steaming celery for 10 minutes may not affect the antioxidant contents significantly, but boiling celery may do so, according to one study.

So, boiling in heaps of water can lead to some loss of water soluble vitamins. One study looking at the effects of boiling on different veggies found boiling spinach and broccoli could reduce the vitamin C content by 50% or more, and boiling courgette / zucchini and sweet potato reduced the vitamin C by about a third.

According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 , each day you should aim to eat a variety of fruit, vegetables, dairy, grains, and foods containing protein (either plant-based or from lean meats or fish).

What vegetable has no health benefits? ›

Veggie: Celery

In fact, this vegetable doesn't contribute much to your body at all. The long, green stalks lacks many of the nutrients often found in other green vegetables, like vitamins C and A. Your body relies on vitamin C to help grow and repair cells, and vitamin A to promote eye, skin and bone health.

Technically, pickles are fruit. They are made from cucumbers which are commonly seen as vegetables; however, they are a seed containing fruit of the cucumber plant. But what's kind of a big “dill” is that the lucky pickles are classified correctly for importing and exporting purposes!

A large banana (counts as 1 cup of fruit). A small orange (counts as ½ cup of fruit).

A serving of raw vegetables is one cup, while a serving of cooked or juiced vegetables is half a cup. “Vegetables naturally have water, so they shrink when you cook them. That's why it's a little bit less,” Rosemond says. Both men and women should aim for at least two and a half servings of vegetables a day.

SO YOU'RE SAYING I CAN EAT AS MUCH AS I WANT AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT? Yes, if following F-Factor correctly, people can eat unlimited vegetables and still maintain or lose —so long as they are non-starchy vegetables that are raw, plain or steamed with no oil (as opposed to being prepared with butter, oil or sauce).