With winter coming to an end it's a good time to spring clean your diet, and how better to do it than with new spring vegetables?
Vegetables
Broccoli, cauliflower, celeriac, leeks, chicory, purple sprouting broccoli, radishes, spring onions.
Fruit
Bananas, blood oranges, kiwi fruit, lemons, oranges, passion fruit, pineapple, pomegranate, rhubarb.
Fish/Seafood
Cockles, cod, hake, John Dory, lemon sole, mussels, oysters, salmon and sea trout.
Others
Parsley.
Facts
- Broccoli - A good source of folate, particularly when eaten raw or lightly steamed. Folate helps your body make healthy red blood cells and is especially important for women in early pregnancy. Two spears of broccoli count as one of your 5-a-day.
- Radishes - Radishes contain vitamin C which helps make strong bones and healthy skin. It also helps you to absorb iron from the food you eat, which helps your immune system fight illnesses and helps your blood to carry oxygen around your body. 10 radishes count as one of your 5-a-day.
