Interesting facts about Vegetables

• Eating plenty of fruits and veggies may help reduce the risk of many diseases, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and some cancers. Vitamins & Minerals. Fruits and veggies are rich in vitamins and minerals that help you feel healthy and energized. Quick, Natural Snack.
• Enjoy 5 a day—eat at least 2 servings of fruit and at least 3 servings of vegetables each day (see box 8 for serving sizes). Choose fresh, frozen, dried, or canned forms and a variety of colors and kinds. Choose dark-green leafy vegetables, orange fruits and vegetables, and cooked dry beans and peas often

• Benefits of Vegetables:

                                  Potassium may help to maintain healthy blood pressure. Dietary fiber from vegetables helps reduce blood cholesterol levels and may lower risk of heart disease. Folate (folic acid) helps the body form healthy red blood cells.

1. The most interesting fact about vegetables is that they have fiber in high amount and these can be consume in many way like we can eat it raw (in the salad form) and cooked.
2. Vegetables have nutritious facts they are full of vitamins, nutrients,  minerals and antioxidant properties.
3. The presence of minerals and vitamins helps to boost the immune system of human and antioxidants which help in reducing the ageing problems.
4. Examples of some vegetables which is consume by humans in day to day life having vital resources that act as medicinal value for that vegetable. 
5. Potato is consisted for 20% solids and 80% of water.
6. 100 grams of potato has 75 grams of water, 19 g of carbohydrates (15 grams of Starch and 2.2 grams of dietary fiber), 2 grams of protein, 0.1 gram of fat, and trace amounts of many vitamins (C, E, K, B6) and minerals and metals (magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and more).
7. Onions are filled with complex sugars that keep our metabolism healthy, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, beta carotene, folate (one of the B vitamins), and they have no fat.
8. Tomato has powerful medicinal properties. It can lower the risk of cancer, prevents cardiovascular diseases, purifies cigarette smoke carcinogens, full of minerals and vitamins, lowers hypertension, regulates blood levels, dissolves gallstones, reduces severity of blood clots, treats inflammation, and more. 94.5% of tomato’s weight is water.
9. Beta-carotene that is found in carrots is a famous antioxidant that can repair cell damage that is caused trough regular metabolism cycles. Because of this, you cells and you will live longer and healthier.Carrot’s vitamin A protects our skin from sun damage, prevents it to become dry and cracked, removes premature wrinkles, acne, pigmentation, blemishes and uneven skin tones.
10. Cucumbers contain many vitamins, minerals, Carbohydrates, and trace metal elements that are integral to our metabolism. It has Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Folic Acid, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Zin