Eat the Rainbow
Posted on July 30, 2009
“As a general rule, deeply colored fruits and vegetables contain higher levels of the beneficial pigments, but paler foods often contain different compounds (some antioxidants and phytochemicals are colorless). Eat a variety of produce in a rainbow of colors for best nutrition.”1
- Martha Schueneman, The Calorie, Carbohydrate, and Cholesterol Directory (Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2004), 121. [↩]
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