The Vegetable Group

Every typical family goes through the scenario of the kids not wanting to eat their vegetables. Why is that? is it just because they look funny? I mean who wants to eat something that grows out of the ground and is green anyway? Greens taste healthy. Not likes fruits, who just have natural sugars. No, vegetables benefit the body on a much larger scale.

First off they are packed with anti-oxidants. What are anti-oxidants? Well, not many average people really know, they just hear how good they are for you. Anti-oxidants basically help defend your immune system people. They do just about everything good for your body. From reducing signs of aging to preventing disease. Any way steering back to topic vegetable.

We all know they're good for you, it's just something our moms would tell us at the dinner table and we really wouldn't question it. The trick is to eat the darker vegetables, they're the ones that have the most nutrients in them. Take lettuce for example. There's the really light stuff and the really dark stuff, and the colored stuff in between, but that's besides the point. Many already notice that the dark and light lettuce taste differently. This is because the water content of the light stuff is over 90%, which makes it taste like almost nothing. The dark stuff is about 60%, which is still a lot, but its more minerals and less water.

So, this is my conclusion. The darker vegetables are healthier for you because they benefit your body greater because they have more nutrients because they have less water content which leads to the fact that they taste different which is why kids don't like them. Duh. The lighter vegetables are more water content, which makes them taste like nothing which makes it easier for kids to consume them. Like cauliflower.

My tip to you. Give your kids lighter vegetables. They aren't as beneficial, true. But they might eat more of them. If you give them the straight dark stuff they may not eat any of it. A little is better then none at all, don't you think?