Drink Your Vegetables

According to the latest American food guide pyramid, you should consume at least 7-9 servings of vegetables per day. Holy macaroni, I don’t think I eat 7-9 servings of anything, much less vegetables!

Don’t like to eat veggies, either? Well, perhaps you can drink it instead. Researchers say it’s a great way to get those healthy goodies into your diet without breaking too much sweat.

“What we found in this study is that drinking vegetable juice seemed to address some of the key barriers to vegetable consumption such as convenience, portability and taste, so individuals were more likely to meet their daily recommendations,” said Carl Keen, PhD, study author and distinguished Professor of Nutrition & Internal Medicine at University of California, Davis. “Furthermore, vegetable juice drinkers reported that they actually enjoyed drinking their vegetables, which is critical to adopting dietary practices for the long-term.”

In fact, after six weeks of the study, vegetable drinkers reported they felt “more satisfied” with the ease of getting vegetables into their diet, and that V8 100% vegetable juice provided an important additional source of vitamins and minerals.

Well, on second thoughts, maybe I do get consume more veggies that I realize. I just forgot to count the carrot-orange juice! That’s a veggies that goes down quite well with me, and I don’t even realize it!

Obviously, the important thing is to get those veggies into your body. Solid, cooked, fresh, salads, mashed, juiced– it doesn’t matter, just get those 7-9 servings in!