Sentences with phrase «leafy plants»

I opt for green, leafy plants like ferns or ivy, avoiding cacti whose spikes can create the opposite of a relaxed feeling, or flowers with a strong scent, which can be distracting or irritating.

They make an nice contrast with leafy plants and are super hardy.

The plants living on green roofs, especially leafy plants and flowers, can capture air pollution and filter toxic gases from the air.

«We have to learn as much as we can from photosynthesis, in other words what goes on in leafy plants, because that's where most of our energy has otherwise come from in terms of fossil fuels or current kinds of carbon materials that we use either as food or fuel,» MacFarlane said.

The king - sized bed faces palm trees and leafy plants, while the room also boasts a flatscreen TV and DVD player.

Cats are unusual in that they can not convert the carotenes found in leafy plants into vitamin A as humans can.

While experts do not expect succulents to go away completely, they do anticipate their popularity to decline in 2018 as more homeowners consider incorporating other colorful or leafy plants into their homes.»

Marmont Hill's Succulent Simple IX Wall Art showcases lively leafy plants against pale pink and bright blush for striking color contrasts.

Green leafy plants are the veggies to stick with for your every day diet.

Parsley is the world's most popular herb and it has one of the highest in nutritional profiles of all the green leafy plants.

In all its simpleness, this salad ticks all the boxes of a wholesome meal - there are good fats from avocado and purslane, vitamin E from sunflower seeds, protein and magnesium from tempeh and tons of vitamins from the green leafy plants.

Some people like a few big, bold leafy plants here and there, Freeman says, while others prefer smaller, more delicate ones, but more of them.

Surely you could set aside some of the clippings to put on top of a salad: It's a green, leafy plant, after all.

Quinoa — Although quinoa looks like a grain, it's actually the seed of a green leafy plant.

Fenugreek (Trigonella Foenum - Graecum) is a leafy plant that is cultivated all over the world.

A cow's stomach is not designed to digest grain, only grass and leafy plant materials.

Interestingly enough... this leafy plant has had a more profound effect in another related aren.

We appreciate this leafy plant today because it provides a whole - food source of B vitamins, a rare find in terrestrial plants!

Outdoor cats can often be seen grazing on grass, which seems to be preferred to leafier plants.

Inside, beneath a glass top, dark leafy plant forms seem to fill the hollow cube, like sickly plants growing in a dark, dank world.

Can you imagine a pretty leafy plant like that being able to go through concrete.

You can also choose an arrangement of branches and stems (even though you won't get the benefits of a full leafy plant).

Not exact matches

And he says client requests have begun to hint that the next big thing may be large leafy, tropical plants that were trendy back in the 1970s and»80s.

Vegans should pretty much always take a B12 and Vit D supplement and will most likely get calcium from nut milks / enriched plant milks and leafy greens, sesame, tofu (soya) and seaweed.

I also really like the concept of Buddha bowls — plant protein, leafy greens, root veggies and a creamy, plant - based sauce.

The truth is that you can get oodles of both of those nutrients (in addition to a plethora of phytonutrients) from numerous plant sources like leafy green veggies, lentils, legumes, and dried fruit.

Get dairy free calcium from leafy greens (kale, collard greens, turnip greens) and calcium - fortified plant milks.

Each serving provides 20 grams of plant - based protein from organic pea, chia and quinoa protein, and the equivalent of 1 cup of leafy greens from kale, wheat grass, barley grass & alfalfa — organically grown and harvested on our family farm.

That's what I tell everyone I know because I'm so passionate about what green foods like veggies and leafy greens and other plant foods can do for all of us.

Consuming alkaline plant - based fats and plenty of dark leafy greens is an essential part of my whole body skin health.

«We had an opportunity when we put our state - of - the - art process plant together to meet all our food safety measures and all the new metrics that we were given by the California leafy greens marketing agreement,» Rossi points out.

Comprised of healthy, (usually) plant - based ingredients like grains, roasted vegetables, nuts, sometimes fruits, a handful of leafy greens, and a flourish of sweet, savory, or tangy sauce, Buddha Bowls offer infinite combinations of flavor and texture.

Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants (which he clarifies to mean leafy vegetables).

You may be surprised to find out that there are many different plant - based sources for protein, including many nuts, seeds, legumes, and dark leafy greens.

The great thing about eating a Whole Food Plant Based Diet is that I get plenty of protein when I eat my cooked beans (1 cup cooked beans = 15 grams protein) and my nuts and seeds (15 grams = 1 cup walnuts or 1/2 cup sunflower seeds), and my dark leafy greens (11 grams per 100 calories).

Plant options for omega - 3 include flaxseeds, hemp seeds, walnuts, and their oils, as well as chia seeds and green leafy vegetables.

I love combining some sort of starchy vegetable — squash, sweet potato, etc. — a green vegetable, dark leafy greens, quinoa and a plant - protein.

In February 2008, the plant underwent renovation of 20,000 ft2 to add production lines for leafy vegetables.

Spinach is a leafy green, meaning the produce derives from a plant, and is edible from the stem to the leaf.

That said, some plant foods have a higher bioavailability of protein compared to other plant foods so if you want to increase your plant protein, here are 10 rich sources: lentils, beans, peanuts, tree nuts (such as cashews and almonds), seeds (such as hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sesame seeds), quinoa, leafy greens, nutritional yeast, tofu and tempeh, wild rice, and green vegetables like broccoli.

Vitamin A can be obtained from food, either as preformed vitamin A in animal products (eg, eggs and dairy products) or as provitamin A carotenoids, mainly β - carotene in plant products (eg, dark - green leafy vegetables and fruit).

When we refer to herbs, we almost always mean fresh leafy green parts of selected plants like oregano, basil or coriander.

Conversion factors for provitamin A carotenoids from various plants have been reported as 12 to 1 for fruit (14, 28), 13 to 1 for sweet potato (15), 15 to 1 for carrots (16), and 10 to 1 (15), 21 to 1 (16), 26 to 1 (14), 27 to 1 (13), and 28 to 1 (28) for green leafy vegetables.

A nutritionally balanced whole food plant - based dish, that offers protein - packed lentils, vitamin / mineral - rich vegetables (including leafy greens!)

Women farmers in Bengal use more than 100 plants for green leafy vegetables.

If planted in the garden and allowed to flourish into a leafy green it can be eaten to relieve lung infections, colds and coughs.

Last autumn I broke all the branches off the plant leaving a rough stem (we get frosts and I figured that getting rid of all the leafy bits would protect it, which it did).

Containing a plethora of vitamins, minerals, plant based protein and phyto - nutrients, leafy greens assist the body in maintaining healthy organ function, detoxification and immunity.

If you're a fair weather gardener or simply don't have the time to be caring for plants as if they were your leafy offspring, here are the best ones to choose:

Stinging nettle is a nutritious, dark, leafy green plant.