Eat Your Vegetables Day – 17th June

Vegetables 🥬🥕🍆🌿🥒are an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.

Veggies contain a varying proportions of vitamins such as Vitamin A, Vitamin K and Vitamin B6, provitamins, dietary minerals, and carbohydrates.

Interestingly, they also contain a variety of other phytochemicals, some of which have antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and anticarcinogenic properties.

Vegetables helps
🥕keep your gut healthy, constipation free
🥬 Lower the risk of heart diseases
🍆Diabetes
🧅Decrease bone loss
🥒Protect against some cancers 🌿Are necessary for healthy hair and skin.

It is recommended to consume 3️⃣ to 5️⃣ servings of fruits andvegetables per day. One serving of vegetables is equivalent to 1 cup 🥗and can be eaten either raw or cooked.

Some creative ways can you incorporate more vegetables into your diet…

Add veggies to your breakfast🥘

Have some carrots🥕 cucumber🥒 sticks or other fresh veggies to munch on.

Try baked or stir fried veggies

Add lots of veggies to your Briyani, wraps, roti pizza🌮

So go ahead have your dose of fibre, antioxidants, vitamins….. Let us know your creative ways…