10 Super Foods You SHOULD Eat

#1: Sweet Potatoes - One of the most nutritious vegetables you can eat. They're loaded with carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.

#2: Whole-Grain Bread - It's higher in fiber and about a dozen vitamins and minerals than refined white or "wheat flour.

#3: Broccoli - Lots of vitamin C, carotenoids and folic acid.

#4: Watermelon - Excellent source of vitamin C and carotenoids - and it tastes great!

#5: Beans - Inexpensive, low in fat, and rich in protein, iron, folic acid and fiber. Choose garbanzo, pinto, black, Navy, kidney, or lentils.

#6: Cantaloupe - A quarter of a delicious melon supplies almost as much vitamin A and C as most people need in an entire day.

#7: Spinach and Kale - Loaded with vitamin C, carotenoids, calcium, iron, and fiber.

#8: Oranges - A great-tasting fruit that is rich in vitamin C, folic acid and fiber.

#9: Oatmeal - Plain, old-fashioned whole-grain oatmeal is inexpensive and has no added sugar or fat.

#10: Organic, fat free (skim) or 1% fat milk - Excellent source of calcium, vitamins and protein with little or no artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.

Adapted from the Nutrition Action Health Letter published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Posted August 2005 | Permanent Link

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