Sentences with phrase «other plant foods contain»

Because the calcium content and availability is quite variable even between different cruciferous vegetables, and because many other plant foods contain smaller amounts of calcium that could contribute to the overall intake or, on the other hand, anti-nutrients that could detract from the overall intake, greater attention should be paid to this possibility if someone is attempting to meet their calcium requirement with plant foods alone.

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They contain phytochemicals, substances found only in plant foods that help fight cancer and other chronic diseases.

Flaxseed contains 75 to 80 times more lignans than other plant foods.

It contains almost no chlorophyll — the pigment that most plants use to make food — so to eat it must suck the sugary sap from other plants.

The plants that we use as food and feed contain a wide variety of plant - produced chemicals such as anthocyanins, glucosinolates, isoflavones, terpenoids, and phenolic compounds (Ames and others 1990, Baxter and Borevitz 2006, Hartmann 2007, Morant and others 2008).

They contain all eight essential amino acids, a rarity for a non-animal based food and are much higher in protein than many other plants.

Hazelnuts contain plant or phytosterols which act as antioxidants, and in the digestive tract appear to combine with cholesterol from other foods and prevent absorption of cholesterol (10).

Many plant foods that contain carbohydrates (kale, broccoli) contain vitamins, minerals and other beneficial substances.

Besides being a good source of iron, the plant foods listed in this article also happen to contain a variety of other nutrients and beneficial plant compounds.

Eggs from hens fed with fish oil contain more EPA + DHA than eggs from hens fed with flaxseed or other plant foods [4].

Along with other plant foods, fruits and vegetables contain the vitamins, minerals and other substances your body needs to function properly.

Many foods, including not only flax but cashews, almonds, some beans and other plant products, naturally contain very small amounts of cyanide compounds.

Fiber - rich foods often contain many other beneficial nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and helpful plant compounds (11, 12).

In the case of vitamin A, however, you'll need egg yolks and other animal foods such as fish since plant foods don't contain vitamin A (they contain large amounts of beta carotene which the human body can convert to vitamin A but not very efficiently as other animals).

So, the foods to emphasize in one's diet are unprocessed, unrefined, plant - derived foods, which in general lack the disease - promoting components, and, as the Dietary Guidelines Committee put it, these foods contain not only the essential vitamins and minerals, but also hundreds of naturally - occurring phytonutrients that may protect against cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and other chronic health conditions.

Examples of other foods containing smaller amounts of FOS: asparagus, ripe bananas, brown sugar, chicory roots, dahlia, endive, garlic, leeks, onions, murnong (Australian tuberous plant), yacon (Peruean tuberous plant)[5].

«Plant Lectins», Dr William Rawls argues that «anyone with any sort of digestive issue should be paying close attention to lectins since they're found in so many foods» then he lists the problematic ones to be Grains, Beans / legumes, especially soybeans, kidney beans, black beans, peanuts, Tree nuts, such as almonds, pecans, walnuts, cashews, and pistachios concluding that «Fish, eggs, and poultry don't contain lectins or other similarly damaging substances, so they're the best source of protein.»

Animal tissues exclusively synthesize MK - 4, but many anaerobic bacteria synthesize other menaquinones, which they use for energy production much in the way that plants use vitamin K1.80 We can therefore obtain vitamin K2 by absorbing that which is produced by our intestinal flora or by eating fermented foods, in addition to eating animal foods which contain vitamin K2 synthesized from vitamin K1 found in grass.

Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and kale contain kaempferol and luteolin, while blueberries and other purplish - blue plant foods are your best bet for obtaining anthocyanins, beneficial plant pigments with anti-diabetic effects.

According to Joy Bauer's Food Cures, high quality carbohydrates and protein (found primarily in plant foods) contain vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that help contribute to a good mood.

To qualify for this claim, a product must contain all portions of the grain kernel, contain at least 51 percent whole grain by weight per reference amount customarily consumed, and meet specified levels for fat, cholesterol, and sodium.18 A health claim might read, «Diets rich in whole - grain foods and other plant foods and low in total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol may help reduce risk of heart disease and certain cancers.»

I ask because one video states that plant foods contain more vitamin C than they used to but have decreased in many other nutrients.

The calcium content in calcium - rich plants in the kale family (broccoli, bok choy, cabbage, mustard, and turnip greens) is as bioavailable as that in milk; however, other plant - based foods contain components that inhibit the absorption of calcium.

What that means is that if a product states natural it means the food contains ingredients from plants, animals, and other mined sources.

Like other plant foods, asparagus contains moderate amounts of dietary fiber.