Posted on 11/13/2024 11:12:37 AM PST by Red Badger
When it comes to healthy eating, veggies are always a good choice — but one takes the cake for being the healthiest.
Watercress is the most nutrient-dense vegetable, receiving a perfect score of 100 in the CDC’s long-standing ranking of “powerhouse” fruits and vegetables (PFVs).
Chinese cabbage is a close second with a score of 91.99, followed by chard (89.27), beet greens (87.08) and spinach (86.43).
These foods, among a total of 41 that qualified as PFVs, were found to contain 17 nutrients, including potassium, fiber, protein, calcium, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, zinc, and vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E and K.
Cruciferous items, including watercress, Chinese cabbage, collard greens, kale and arugula — as well as leafy greens, like chard, beet greens, spinach, chicory and leaf lettuce — took the top spots on the list.
Yellow and orange foods, like carrots, tomatoes, winter squash and sweet potatoes — along with allium, citrus and berry croups — landed in the bottom half.
When it comes to the top veggie, watercress, nutritionists agree that it has a multitude of health benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It’s like eating water..
I always remember watercress sandwiches being mentioned in one of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, but I never knew what it was.
As long as we are moving from individual words to phrases, I don’t EVER want to hear “out of an abundance of caution” ever again. It’s like nails on the blackboard for me. I saw it in an article yesterday and I gagged.
Veggie is also used sometimes to refer to a person who’s a vegetarian.
The Brave AI indicates that the first recorded use of ‘veggie’ to mean ‘vegetable’ goes back to 1955; I’m still trying to find the source; but I remember seeing it in a book on vegetarianism in the 1960s.
What do you do with a watercress? All I know to do with plants like that is boil them, sprinkle them with Texas Pete green pepper vinegar on the plate. And if I worry about vitamins, sip the pot liquor from a coffee cup with a little salt.
"Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things—like Roo’s vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger’s feeder; so she had sent them out with a packet of watercress sandwiches for Roo and a packet of extract-of-malt sandwiches for Tigger, to have a nice long morning in the Forest not getting into mischief."
"extract-of-malt sandwiches" -- I use a bit of extract-of-malt in my bread, but a SANDWICH made with that? Yikes and ugh!
I think the English sometimes made tea sandwiches out of it, as they do with cucumber.
I’ve also made a cream of greens soup that included it.
I think you eat it raw like a salad..............
As they did with the fake vaxxes, they only tell one (supposed) side.
At $12 to $14 per pound at my local markets, watercress is a useless boutique vegetable. I’d much rather buy broccoli at 99 cents a pound on sale, and I eat a lot of it.
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Good grief...
“Watercress is the most nutrient-dense vegetable, receiving a perfect score of 100 in the CDC’s long-standing ranking of “powerhouse” fruits and vegetables (PFVs).”
Better stay away from that one then.
Where is Broccoli Rabe (Rapini)? It has to be top 5.
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