Healthy Food Guide

Featured Healthy Food Guides

Cabbage

If the only time you eat cabbage is when it’s drenched with mayonnaise in coleslaw or boiled with corned beef for St. Patrick’s Day, it’s time to broaden your horizons. This surprisingly versatile vegetable just begs to be used more creatively—so we’ve come up with some other options for you. Like...

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Green Beans

While one of the most iconic uses for the ever-popular green bean is in a creamy casserole at the holidays, fresh, local beans purchased in season at your local market can’t be beat. Also called snap beans or string beans, green beans actually come in a range of colors, from green to yellow to...

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Broccoli

Broccoli is one of America's favorite everyday vegetables: affordable, always available and densely packed with the plant nutrients essential to healthful, Mediterranean-style eating.Known as calabrese to the Italian immigrants who brought it to the New World, broccoli delivers bright flavors and...

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Sweet Potatoes

A veritable powerhouse of nutritional goodness, the sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato. And don’t call it a yam—it’s not even the same species! The sweet potato is a flowering perennial vine in the same family as morning glories, with delicious, starchy, tuberous roots. A 4-ounce...

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Pomegranates

Beneath the tough, leathery skin of a pomegranate, you will find hundreds of edible seeds encased in sweet, juicy pulp. Native to the region from Iran to northern India, pomegrantes have been appreciated from Biblical times, when Moses promised his followers that they would find the fruit in the...

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Potatoes

Potatoes have been revered for centuries. The Spanish Conquistadors must have seen value in this humble tuber when they first carried the potato to Europe from its home in South America in the sixteenth century. From there, the potato traveled across the globe and became a staple crop in many...

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Pears

There is something so sensuous about biting into a pear in its prime: first, the sweet juiciness; then the mild, but distinctive, sensation of texture. Enjoying the perfect pear requires patience; pears are one of the few fruits that don’t benefit from ripening on the tree. In fact, pears left...

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