Get All Your vitamin A &C! Eat This!

HoosierMom2017

I love raw bell peppers. Using MFP I see that one raw orange, yellow, or red pepper delivers a days worth of vitamin a and C. I weigh all my food in grams, (yes I am in US) and once the center is cut out, a large bell pepper comes in at between 185 g and 215 g. Find a value for 100 g, then when you enter the day's value, you can put in 1.85 servings for 185 g, for example. That is what I do with all my food. Makes it so easy. The calories are minimal and the sweet taste is wonderful. I eat one a day at lunch. Also has a very satisfying crunch, like potato chips. If you are a fan, stock up and start eating one a day, and prepare to watch your fingernails grow like crazy!

Old_Cat_Lady

I wash the outside carefully since they are in the dirty dozen list. I cannot afford organic. I hope a scrub helps.
http://www.organic.org/articles/showarticle/article-214

bluets2011

I'll try! My nails never grow!

MichelleSilverleaf

TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »

I wash the outside carefully since they are in the dirty dozen list. I cannot afford organic. I hope a scrub helps.
http://www.organic.org/articles/showarticle/article-214

The "dirty dozen" list is ridiculously bunk.

Old_Cat_Lady

Michelle, I hope so. It is SOO expensive to buy organic spinach, etc. I wish I could read a site that would comfort me. Financially, I cannot pay double for these things.

Cherimoose

HoosierMom2017 wrote: »

. If you are a fan, stock up and start eating one a day, and prepare to watch your fingernails grow like crazy!

Aw jeez, more work. I want them to grow slower, not faster.

MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »

The "dirty dozen" list is ridiculously bunk.

So which fruits & veggies have the lowest health risk from pesticides? Surely some are better than others.

inertiastrength

I get about 8x the RDA of both of those usually. I don't usually have trouble with A or C, I'd expect most people even remotely having a portion of their foods from fruits or vegetables wouldn't either. Where I struggle is potassium haha

inertiastrength

also lol @dirty dozen

lemurcat12

mrsnattybulking wrote: »

I get about 8x the RDA of both of those usually. I don't usually have trouble with A or C, I'd expect most people even remotely having a portion of their foods from fruits or vegetables wouldn't either. Where I struggle is potassium haha

Yeah, I'm always way over A and C.

You may well be good on potassium too. When I bother tracking carefully enough on Cronometer (using only whole foods so I can use the USDA entries), I am good there, and that's without counting some weird things (like coffee) that also have it. Most entries just lack it if you use packaged food entries.

inertiastrength

lemurcat12 wrote: »

mrsnattybulking wrote: »

I get about 8x the RDA of both of those usually. I don't usually have trouble with A or C, I'd expect most people even remotely having a portion of their foods from fruits or vegetables wouldn't either. Where I struggle is potassium haha

Yeah, I'm always way over A and C.

You may well be good on potassium too. When I bother tracking carefully enough on Cronometer (using only whole foods so I can use the USDA entries), I am good there, and that's without counting some weird things (like coffee) that also have it. Most entries just lack it if you use packaged food entries.

I made some custom entries in MFP to track it x-ref USDA data and I still suck at getting RDA of 4700... Now I struggle even more since I am experimenting with higher fat macros. I literally have to drink tomato juice and eat a cantaloupe and sweet potato every day to get RDA lol