What constitutes your ‘five a day’?
A few options for your daily portions of fruit and veg
We all know that we should eat at least five portions of fruit and veg a day, but sometimes this seems to be a difficult task. Well, the truth is it’s really not! Eating five a day is a realistic and achievable goal for everyone.
To prove it to you, here are 10 great examples of what ‘one portion of fruit or veg’ actually consists of:
One pear = one portion
One banana = one portion
One apple = one portion
One orange = one portion
22 grapes = one portion
One standard tomato = one portion
10 mushrooms = one portion
16 raspberries = one portion
6cm (2.4in) slice of cucumber = one portion
One carrot = one portion
Hopefully, most of us already follow the ‘five-a-day’ rule on a day-to-day basis — but for those who don’t, we’ve shown how simple it really is — so now there’s no excuse!
By eating the ‘fab five’ each day, you’ll be on your way to a much happier and healthier lifestyle!
Comments (6)
Lady_K 'Five a day seems hard a first but it is easy after a while!'
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PaulRitchie2 'I do try to stick to the five a day thing but it doesn't always prove that easy. Definitley just having some fruit handy when you are in work and have a fruit juice is a real good way to get you at least half the way there.'
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HAN75 'Five a day is quite easy to manage if you just keep a good stash of fruit at work. Every now and gain I just stock up at lunch time so that there's always fruit of some description at hand throughout the day. Keeps me off those chocolate bars too - well most of the time.'
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adam_s 'I've probably been kidding myself thinking that eating five small satsumas is giving me my five a day!'
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groaky 'Don't the Americans have 10 portions a day? Or is it 12? Either way I find the discrepancy slightly worrying if this is true...'
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SMWilcock 'Remember that five-a-day is the BARE MINIMUM you should be eating and that we should be aiming for at least seven or eight portions a day. In response to Luke Miller's comment though, do we really want to take nutritional advice from the nation that gave us McDonalds, KFC and Burger King??!!'
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