Green and yellow vegetables are too low in calories to serve as the centerpiece of your meals, but can be added without restriction. Fruits – because they are high in simple sugars – should generally be limited to 3 servings a day as they’re tasty and easy to over-consume. The sugar in fruit is fructose which, for some, causes triglycerides and cholesterol to rise. People with these concerns should limit fruits even more.
Familiar Fruits and Vegetables are too numerous to list. Try adding some of these unfamiliar ones for variety.
Fruits:
- carambola
- papaya
- cherimoya
- persimmon
- guava
- pomegranate
- kiwifruit
- passion fruit
- kumquat
- pumelo
- loquat
- quince
- lychee
- soursop
- mango
Vegetables:
- aduki beans
- jicama
- arugula
- kale
- bok choy
- kohlrabi
- broccoli de rabe
- radicchio
- burdock
- salsify
- celeriac (celery root)
- sprouts (alfalfa, lentil, mung bean, wheat)
- chicory (curly endive)
- Swiss chard
- cocozelle
- taro root
- collard greens
- turban squash
- daikon
- water chestnuts
- endive
- watercress
- garbanzo beans (chick-peas)
- Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke)
