6 Ways To Always Can Eat Vegetables and Fruits

You must have often heard how important it is to implement a healthy diet and balanced. One element that should not be missed in the diet are vegetables and fruits. But unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult to insert routine to keep vegetables and fruits into your diet everyday.

Heather Mangieri, a nutrition and public relations of the American Dietetic Association (USDA), provides six simple tips to be able to eat more vegetables and fruits in the daily diet.

 1. Starting early
To get the amount of vegetables and fruits recommended that 5 times a day, start by eating earlier in the day, when the breakfast. Try to insert a banana on cereal, or vegetables are eaten at breakfast omelets, Mangieri said.
2. Do not hide the fruit
If you have a stock of fruit or vegetables, do not just keep it in the fridge or pantry. Make sure they are "invisible" to stimulate to eat. You can put fruit on the dining table or living room, and do not hesitate to make the fruit as a snack menu.
3. Frozen is good
By freezing the vegetables, you will always have a stock at home, Mangieri said. Besides frozen vegetables are also easy to be recycled and be able to be stored for a long time. Fear of reduced nutritional value? Keri Gans, a publicist from the USDA also stated that, typically frozen vegetables have the same nutritional value of fresh vegetables.
4. When eating, focus your attention on vegetables first, not protein
Try to fill half of the plate with vegetables and fruits. The rest just fill with carbohydrates and protein.
5. You can drink fruit and vegetables
Currently widely available juice drinks fortified vitamins to meet the daily needs. According to the USDA this product may be drunk, but not every day. Because the sources of vitamins and minerals the best still comes from fresh fruits and vegetables. Do not forget, fresh fruits and vegetables contain fiber that is part of a healthy diet.
6. Make fruit as dessert
Mangieri suggest adding fruit as dessert after a big meal for the ice cream. The form can be processed as an ice jam or fruit without added sugar. You also can make a fruit smoothie, plus yogurt, no sugar. "The sweet taste of the fruit is enough for our sense of taste, so no need to add sugar anymore," he said.