The 8 healthiest green vegetables suitable for salad
We already know that fresh salads are good, but not all vegetables are the same. When choosing the essential ingredients for your salad, choose the darker ones, because they are usually the ones with the highest nutritional value. Here are the eight healthiest green vegetables for your salad.
1. Kale
1 cup of cooked kale provides 19% of our daily intake of vitamin A, which helps maintain good eyesight and, boosts our immune and reproductive systems. It also gives us 23% of our daily intake of vitamin C and 412% of our vitamin K intake.
2. Spinach
We may not be used to eating it raw, but it is still very tasty and nutritious. However, when cooked it is an excellent source of iron (over 1/3 of the daily intake), vitamin C (20%), and fiber. Spinach contains a lot of folic acid that helps convert food into energy.
3. Beetroot leaves
Although most of us only buy beets, their leaves are extremely nutritious. Boiled leaves contain 13% of the daily intake of vitamin A and all of the daily intake of vitamin K.
4. Turnips
Although it has the highest sodium content of all green vegetables, it also contains twice the amount of vitamin K than the rest, 12% of the daily intake of vitamins C and A.
5. Romaine
This crunchy kind of lettuce gives us 1/3 of our daily intake of folic acid, almost ½ in vitamin A, and almost all of the vitamin K we need. For best results, mix it with spinach or kale.
6.Dandelion
It provides us with 20% of our daily intake of Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Iron, and Calcium. Dandelion also contains prebiotic fibre.
7. Nasturtium
It has a higher nutritional value than lettuce and only 1 cup of nasturtium contains almost all the daily intake of vitamin K. It is also a good source of vitamin C.
8. Rocket
Rocket is quite tasty and contains large amounts of Vitamin A and C, iron, and calcium. Rocket is not usually eaten alone, but is added to other green vegetables such as spinach and lettuce.
