leafy vegetable

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The following criteria were evaluated through the method Qualitative Evaluation of Menu Components (QEMC) developed by Veiros, (15): the presence of fresh fruits such as dessert, leaf vegetables, color monotony, foods rich in sulfur, fatty meat, fried foods, sweets, sweets and fries on the same day and preserves.
Furthermore, a wide variety of plants, such as fruit vegetables and grains, can now be cultivated, in addition to conventional leaf vegetables. As a result, LED-based light sources have been adopted by universities, research institutes, and commercial plant growth facilities.
Kan asks Fukushima residents not to eat leaf vegetables over radiation
Yuhei Sato to ask people, including the prefecture's own residents, to refrain from eating vegetables such as cabbage, the ''komatsuna'' leaf vegetable, broccoli and cauliflower.
THEY can be eaten as a leaf vegetable and are high in Vitamins A and C, plus iron.
Kale is a wonderful and plentiful leaf vegetable which is very flavoursome and worth using.
Goldman says that during the time of the Romans, people selected the progenitor of the modern beet from a wild plant in the Mediterranean region to use as a leaf vegetable. The plant probably resembled the Swiss chard of today, which may be a bridge crop between the original leafy beet cultivated from the wild and today's modern table beets.
If iceberg lettuce is the only leaf vegetable you eat, you're selecting the one weakling in a family of nutritional champions.
To investigate food consumption, part of the questionnaire used in Brazilian Ministry of Health's Surveillance of Risk Factors and Protection for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Inquiry (VIGITEL, in the Portuguese abbreviation) was adapted, including questions such as: "How many days a week do you usually eat beans?", "How many days a week do you usually eat at least one type of leaf vegetable or vegetable?", "How many days days a week do you usually eat red meat?", "How many days a week do you usually eat chicken?", among others.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry called on consumers not to eat the 11 vegetables, also including spinach and the ''komatsuna'' leaf vegetable, produced in the prefecture, where a troubled nuclear power plant is located, for the time being.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry have urged consumers not to eat theese 11 types of vegetables, also including spinach and the "komatsuna" leaf vegetable produced in the already troubled prefecture, the Kyodo news agency reports.
While the guests planted leeks in the leaf vegetable quadrant, I got on with my own work, digging cooked food scraps into a trench just outside the circular area so that they would compost underground without smelling and attracting rats.
Tatsoi, an oriental leaf vegetable, is very hardy and has become a particular favorite in the United States because its shiny, dark-green leaves are as delicious as they are beautiful.
A typical leaf vegetable processing line could comprise:
The government ordered Fukushima and three other prefectures Monday to stop shipping spinach and another leaf vegetable following the detection of radioactive substances in the produce at levels beyond legal limits, while trace amounts of radioactive substances were detected in tap water samples collected Sunday and Monday in nine prefectures.