They also provide a more complete, nutrient - dense source of calcium, potassium, Vitamins A, C and D, and the B
vitamins than most fruits and vegetables.
Not exact matches
It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat today has very little nutrition in it — especially compared to some of the other less healthy foods you likely also eat — but it is true that
fruits and vegetables grown decades ago were much richer in
vitamins and minerals
than the varieties
most of us get today.
Though
vitamins can degrade in fresh
fruits and vegetables over time, many nutrients in foods are much hardier
than most people assume, Dr. Bouzari said.
Grapefruit: one of the
most hydrating
fruits in the world, half a grapefruit provides more
than half of your recommended daily intake of
vitamin C, plus calcium, magnesium, Vitamin A and E and many other mi
vitamin C, plus calcium, magnesium,
Vitamin A and E and many other mi
Vitamin A and E and many other minerals.
A
fruit from the Amazon Rainforest, camu camu is a small package that holds the
most vitamin C of any known source - 30 to 50 times more
than what an orange contains.
Indigenous throughout India, Amla or Indian Gooseberry, as it is also known, is a green
fruit that is incredibly high in tannin compounds and has 20 times more concentrated
Vitamin C
than an orange, making it one of the
most powerful antioxidants.
Bananas contain more potassium
than most fruit, plus fiber,
Vitamin B6 and folate.
The average American eats less
than half of the recommended amount of
fruits and vegetables — the intake of essential
vitamins and minerals is thus greatly limited as vegetables and
fruits are among the
most nutrient dense foods (they give the
most nutrients for their weight / calories).
They are grass eaters and should be given a diet of leafy greens supplemented by some
fruit and vegetables, all heavily powdered in a
vitamin / calcium mixture, as bone growth is more important to tortoises
than most other reptiles.
I appreciate the natural whole foods used along with natural
vitamins and minerals derived from
fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and other natural food ingredients rather
than the potentially toxic synthetic forms of which
most are sourced from China.
The downside to this recipe is that it contains little
fruit and veg, and
most of the
vitamins and minerals she needs are provided in supplement form rather
than as whole food sources.