Fruits and Vegetables

By Adam Hackbarth

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•Health Benefits of Fruit

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•List of Fruits and Vegetables

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

1990 1998 1999 20000

500

1000

1500

2000

25002261

2005 1966 1986

8951090 1063 1120 Vegetables

Fruit

grams/person/w

eek

YEAR

Proportion of adults eating different types of fruits and vegetables per day

Fresh FruitVegetables Fruit Juice Salad Dried Fruit Frozen0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

5852

37

26

6 5

66

54

41

34

106

MenWomen

PERCENT

FOOD ITEMS

Yogurt Dessert

½ Cup Apples

¾ Cup Oranges

3 Cup Yogurt

1/3 Cup Sugar

Fun Vegetable Facts•Most nutrients of the potato reside just below the skin

•A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by itself in one day

•California produces almost all of the broccoli sold in the United States

•A baked potato (with skin) has 4 grams of dietary fiber

•Carrots are 87% water

•Pressing a slice of cucumber to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds takes care of bad breath

Fun Fruit Facts•Apples keep you awake more than drinking a cup of coffee

•There are more than 100 varieties of bananas

•If left on a tree, an orange will not become overripe even though it changes back to a green color

•More than 50% of grapes grown worldwide are fermented to produce wine

•An average strawberry has 200 seeds

•Kiwis have as much Vitamin C in them as oranges