Vegetables

Vegetables are important part of healthy eating and provide a source of many nutrients, including potassium, fiber, folate (folic acid) and vitamins A, E and C. Vegetable like broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and garlic provide additional benefits, making them a superfood, potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Dietary fiber from vegetables helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease.

Folate (folic acid) helps the body form healthy red blood cells, also women of childbearing age who may become pregnant and those in the first Eating vegetables provides health benefits people who eat more vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet are likely to have a reduced risk of some chronic diseases. Vegetables provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body especially trimester of pregnancy need adequate folate to reduce the risk of neural tube defects and spina bifida during fetal development. That´s why eating vegetables provides health benefits, people who eat more vegetables and fruits as part of an overall healthy diet are likely to have a reduced risk of some chronic diseases and over that vegetables provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body. 

Tasks:

1. Now that you have read vegetables benefits, you are going to create a vegetable recipe and give reasons why you chose it and what specific benefits does that recipe has.

2. You are going to share your recipes with your classmates, and compare benefits.

3. Choose which recipe was more complete.

Process

You are going to use the following webpages of vegetable recipes:

* this website and this a other one.

After checking these two pages you are going to create your own recipe vegetable.

This is the way that the recipe is going to be taken in count:

* How difficult is your recipe.

* At least 3 benefits that the recipe has.

* Creativity.

* Team work.

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE MADE IT!!! 

I hope you had enjoyed this task, see you next class.

Credits to: Cynthia Lizbeth Vargas de la Cruz.

I used the following pages:

Page 1, Page 2 and page 3

I hope you had enjoyed it.

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