The Centers for Disease Control has come out with a list of 41 “powerhouse fruits and vegetables,”based on the amounts of 17 critical nutrients they contain.
To create the list researchers at William Paterson University in New Jersey calculated how dense with nutrients various fruits and vegetables are, based on the percentage of the recommended daily intake for each nutrient the foods provide. Researchers then ranked the fruits and vegetables based on their content of fiber, potassium, protein, calcium, folate, vitamin B12, vitamin A, vitamin D and other nutrients that they consider important to public health.
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