By Shreya Goswami
Upping your intake of fruits and vegetables during summer season can help keep plenty of health issues at bay. Here are some tips to get more of these seasonal produce in your system.
All you need is a good juicer, and you can relish everything from tomato juice to the much healthier and beneficial juices of gourds like bitter gourd and bottle gourd.
Try pairing a fruits and veggies together, and you will get a power smoothie so good that both dehydration and exhaustion will hit the curb!
Include plenty of fruits and veggies in your breakfast itself and you will stay motivated to eat more of these goodies throughout the day.
Snack on bite-sized fruits and veggies instead of fatty or oily foods to ensure you snack in a healthy way while increasing your intake of seasonal produce.
Include a whole variety of fruits and veggies in your daily diet and you won’t find any of it repetitive or monotonous, and keep your fruit and veggie intake high throughout summer.
Step into your local sabji mandi this year and pick out everything from java apples and fresh sugarcane to a plethora of green veggies like snake gourd and ridge gourd.
Experimenting with salads that include as many ingredients as possible is one sure-shot way of increasing your fruit and veggie intake.
Another way to increase your fruit and veggie intake is to eat more cold soups made of a whole range of vegetables.
Plan ahead and do quite a lot of the prep involved in increasing your fruit and veggie intake for the major meals of the day.
Every region of India which faces hot summers has plenty of fruit and veggie dishes that are prepared specifically to increase the intake of these seasonal products. Explore these.