Some interesting facts about fruits and vegetables

We all savor delicious fruits and vegetables on daily basis. These veggies and fruits have essential nutrients and provide vitamins like Vitamin C and Vitamin A. When it comes to usages of fruits, it is endless! Fruits are consumed as nourishment by millions of people in salads, juices, jams and pickles. We know that fruits and vegetables are highly suggested as part of a fit diet, but time and again, we munch these foods without really knowing much about them.

We share with you some interesting facts about fruits and vegetables:

• Apple a day keeps the sleep away - Eating an apple is a more dependable way of remaining awake than consuming a cup of coffee. The natural sugar in an apple is stronger than the caffeine in coffee.

• Keep your vitamins high - Darker green vegetables hold more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.

• Save the skin - Before you get out the potato peeler for your potatoes, you might want to think again. Most of the nutrients in a potato exist just underneath the skin layer.

• Did you know - 35 % of a grown-up's day-to-day necessity of vitamin C can be found in a medium-sized potato.

• They’re berry important for you - One cup of blackberries is a brilliant source of vitamin C and vitamin K.  Strawberries and raspberries are also good containers of vitamin C.

Hope you had as much fun reading them as we had collecting them!

And Last I share with you a perfect quote from Sir Henry Longfellow –

“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds “ - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow