Team White
September 08, 2006 by Renee @ 12:08 PMCategory: Featured Food Friday, Food & Nutrition, Summer Edition
, I'm such a smarty pants, making every fruit/veggie text (Red, Blue & Green), the color it is. Don't think I'm going to let the fact that no one will see white on white, stop me. Today it's time for Team White.
Why White is Good
Garlic, onions, and leeks may be lacking in color, but they're bursting with powerful phytochemicals, substances found only in plants that help your body fight disease and promote good health.
Vegetables from the onion family, which include garlic, chives, scallions, leeks, and any variety of onion, share a group of phytochemicals that are very important to good health. The most common member of this phytochemical group is allicin. Research is being conducted to show how allicin in garlic and onions may help lower cholesterol and blood pressure and increase the body's ability to fight infections.
Top Sources of Allicin
Garlic 
Leeks
Onions
Chives
How to get your White on
- For breakfast try an omelet loaded with onions and other veggies.
- Add onions on your salad, in your sandwich.
- Putting chives on your baked potato for lunch.
- Make salsa with garlic and onions.
- When cooking or stir-frying include onion, leeks and garlic with you vegetables.
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You'd think of all the colors, I'd have a hard time w/this. Actually no. Lately I've been grilling onions w/my nightly burger. Most times when I have a sandwich, I make them add onions, especially if it's tuna. And I'm quicker to say hold the pickles, extra onions, on a fast food burger.
I even have a head of garlic sitting in my crisper, to make garlic tea. I heard fantastic things about it. And I'm itching to make fresh garlic spread to slather over toasted bread.
Comments: 3
09.12.06 | Marla commented: You cracked me up, with your invisible White text. I want to put in a good word on mushrooms, too, which are frequently white. I got this from nutritiondata.com:
This food is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Protein, Vitamin C, Folate, Iron, Zinc and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin D, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Potassium, Copper and Selenium.
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