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A while ago, I embarked on the journey to find the most nutritious vegetable to eat. Web searches led to dead ends on shitty blogs, men's magazines and a whole
by neilpanchal 6y ago
A while ago, I embarked on the journey to find the most nutritious vegetable to eat. Web searches led to dead ends on shitty blogs, men's magazines and a whole bunch of anecdotal "nutritionists" claiming authoritatively this or that. Usually, something in fashion like Kale at the time. How do you cut through the BS and navigate through anti-Lettuce propagandists?
I found some interesting studies from CDC and one of them I happen to have bookmarked which ranks common veggies by their nutrition "score"* [1].
The results might surprise you!
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049200/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4049200/
* Of course this is not a definitive "scoring" strategy and depending on the scoring method, the results might vary wildly. The author delves into this.
- mrtweetyhack 6y agothanks. this is a good list
- alisonatwork 6y agoIt is really infuriating trying to search for health-related information online, especially if it's also a foodstuff, since you surface a lot of recipes as well as fad diets and "superfood" pseudoscience. I remember reading a while ago that sweet potato was an important staple used in Asia to avert famines due to bad rice harvest and that just sweet potato and bok choy can get you most of the essential nutrition you need. But now I cannot find the sources. It's good to see bok choy listed at the top of this table, since I try to eat that once a day. Personally I choose to eat fairly simply and mostly plant-based, so I am always interested to learn about cost-effective and nutritionally dense staples and greens.
- eridan2 6y agoI found this site useful: https://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000138000000000000000-1w.html https://nutritiondata.self.com/foods-000138000000000000000-1...