Are Fruits and Vegetables the Biggest Part of Your Diet?

The opinion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the World Health Organization, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is that you should eat up to 10 total servings of fruits and vegetables a day. That's a lot of food!

In addition to eating all that food, maybe you don't have time to shop 2-3 times a week to buy fresh fruits, vegetables and greens or you don't like the taste of fruits, vegetables or greens. Not to mention the preparation of the food (washing, peeling, dicing, chopping, mincing, broiling, grilling, steaming, baking and microwaving) can be a real inconvenience.

Listen to Mother Nature!

Whole foods from the earth, not isolates from the science lab, give your body the best concentrated nutrients in a simple and effective form. So why try and fool the body with synthetic vitamin pills and mess with Mother Nature?

Your body will absorb only a small percentage of synthetic alternatives, which are known as isolates, in the form of vitamins and minerals. Your body can easily do what it needs to with natural substances, like vitamins and minerals from whole foods, so why take anything else?

That's why we created VGF 25+. Whole foods are more easily absorbed and used by your body than a synthetic blend. The nutrient rich concentrates of 25 Vegetables, Greens and Fruits found in VGF 25+ are derived from Nature's own whole foods.

All seven essential nutrient classes are contained in it! Read more about that later.

The list below explains what you can get from 25 different foods that are found in simple and effective VGF 25+ caplets:

Broccoli - Folate, vitamin C, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin and glucosinolates

Cabbage - Vitamin C, folate and glucosinolates

Carrot - Several carotenoids including beta-carotene, along with vitamin E

Kale - Vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and several carotenoids including beta carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin

Parsley - Vitamin C, folate, several carotenoids and flavonols

Spinach - Folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, several carotenoids, iron and calcium

Papaya - Vitamin C, potassium, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin

Tomato - Vitamin C, polyphenols, and several carotenoids including lycopene

Barley Grass - Vitamin B1, B12, calcium, vitamin C

Wheat Grass - Vitamin A, vitamin E, magnesium, calcium, fiber

Hyrdrilla Verticillata - Calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, zinc, copper, vitamins B1, B2, B5, B6, B12, vitamin C and vitamin E

Alfalfa - Calcium, carotene, chlorophyll, and vitamin K

Artichoke - Magnesium, chromium, manganese, potassium, phosphorus, iron and calcium

Brussels Sprouts - Vitamin K, vitamin C, folate, manganese, fiber, potassium, omega 3 fatty acids, vitamin E, calcium

Cauliflower - Vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, fiber

Onion - Chromium, vitamin C, and numerous flavonoids, fiber

Collard Greens - Vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, managanese, calcium

Apricot - Vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber

Avocado - Vitamin K, folate, potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C

Green Bell Pepper - Vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B6

Grapefruit - Vitamin C, fiber, vitamin A, potassium, folate

Kiwi - Vitamin C, fiber, copper, potassium, magnesium

Prune - Fiber, copper, vitamin A, potassium

Strawberry - Vitamin C, manganese, fiber, potassium, folate

Read on to see just a few of the benefits from some of these natural food sources.

Barley Grass: Has a very high level of the superoxide dismutase enzyme (known as SOD). SOD is a powerful antioxidant that protects the cells against toxic free radicals. Barley grass contains nearly 5 times the iron content in spinach, 6.5 times as much carotene and 30 times more Vitamin B1 and 11 times the amount of calcium than there is in cow's milk as well as close to 7 times the vitamin C that is in oranges.

Wheat Grass: Magnesium may be more important than you know because it helps with muscle contraction and bowel health. Wheat Grass contains all the magnesium that is in broccoli, beets and carrots. It is high in fiber and contains over eighty different minerals.

Brussels Sprouts: One of the glucosinolate phytonutrients found in Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables is Sulforphane which boosts the body's detoxification enzymes, thus helping to clear potentially carcinogenic substances more quickly. Brussels sprouts also contain other plant phytonutrients which protect against disease, including cancer, and enhance the activity of the body's natural defense systems.

Other benefits from these 25+ whole foods include brain health and immune system support, better cholesterol levels, and an improved urinary tract system.

Plenty of these wonderful fruits and vegetables should be included in your diet every day. Realistically it is extremely hard and nearly impossible to consume such a wide variety of these wonderful fruits and vegetables to benefit from their individual properties each and every day.

To make sure you are not missing out on any of these powerful nutrients and benefits, you should consume them the best you can and more importantly consume a whole food based multi-vitamin.

The base of your nutritional foundation is being built so your body can fight anything that comes against you. It is what is called completing your nutritional foundation.