Healthy Fall Vegetables

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Beets — Eat the Roots and the Greens of These Healthy Earthy Veggies in the Fall Season

Bright red (and golden) beets boast a whole host of nutritional benefits — as do their green leaves! Beets have a loooong history — in fact, they were grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in the 1700's. The health benefits of beets are numerous.  Beet Roots (a.k.a. BEETS) have many nutrients your body needs, including vitamin C, folate, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, manganese, and iron. They’ve been shown to […]

todayOctober 7, 2021

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Sweet Potatoes are a Healthy and Versatile Veggie – Perfect for the Fall Season, and Fall Dishes

With their wonderfully warm orange and deeply hued purple colors, sweet potatoes — perhaps the healthiest type of potatoes — are a fantastic fall vegetable to add to your meals. Did you know...? The longest lived people in the world, the traditional Okinawans, get more than 50% of their daily calories from sweet potatoes. A 2009 paper published in The Journal of the American College of Nutrition attributes much of […]

todayOctober 1, 2021

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