Healthy Food Choices

Make gradual changes to your diet. Eating healthfully requires making overall smart food selections throughout your life. Choosing a food that is less nutritious every once in awhile does not mean your diet is bad; just make those foods the exception in your diet, not the rule.

healthier Food Selections

5-A-Day Challenge

Some ideas to help you increase the number of fruits and vegetables you eat each day to meet the 5-A-Day challenge are:

Eat fruit or drink fruit juice at breakfast.
Snack on fruits and vegetables (especially bite-sized portions such as baby carrots or dried fruits) throughout the day.
Include one or more side servings of vegetables at lunch and dinner.
Eat at least one Vitamin A-rich fruit or vegetable - good food sources include apricot, cantaloupe, carrot, mango, papaya, pumpkin, spinach, sweet potato, romaine lettuce, mustard greens, winter squash, kale, and collards.Eat at least one Vitamin C-rich fruit and vegetable - good food sources include orange, grapefruit, kiwi, apricot, pineapple, cantaloupe, strawberry, tomato, mango, plum, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, peppers, collards.
Eat at least one Fiber-rich fruit and vegetable - good food sources include apple, banana, berries, figs, prunes, cherry, kiwi, orange, date, pear, cooked beans (kidney, lima, pinto, black, lentils), black-eyed peas, peas, carrot, potato, and corn.
Eat at least one Cruciferous vegetable (from cabbage family) - examples include broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, bok choy, red and green cabbage, kale, and turnip.

5 fruits and vegetables a day is the minimum - more is better!

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