Eating for Longevity – Spring & Summer Vegetables You Should Add to Your Diet

When you’re considering the best foods for longevity, look for spring and summer vegetables, delicious fresh treats that can also increase your body’s longevity, there are a variety of tasty, health-enhancing treats you can include in your diet. Bursting with flavor and offering a major nutrient enhancement, here’s a list of some of our favorites. Including them in your diet is a great way to begin your discovery of how to eat healthy. 

Asparagus

Just in time for spring come the bright green spears of asparagus. These delightfully pointed and flavorful veggies are an excellent source for vitamins such as A, C, E, and K. Asparagus also offers plenty of fiber, antioxidant glutathione, and folate. Grill, roast, puree, or bake into a focaccia or quiche!

Leeks

This sweet and mild veggie in the flavorful onion family also provides a great source of vitamin A, as well as vitamins K, C, and plenty of folate. Add in the anti-inflammatory disease fighter quercetin, which is good for your heart, and you will find plenty of reasons to add leeks to flavor any dish or toss into a salad or creamy soup.

Strawberries

How can you pass up a sweet summer berry? Naturally, strawberries are fruits, not veggies, but they’re so powerful and tasty they belong in this list, too. Along with being a great source of vitamin C and fiber, there’s potassium, folate and another powerful antioxidant, anthocyanin packed in with the sweetness. Add to your oatmeal, drop in a yogurt, or make it dessert. Strawberries are also versatile enough to add to salsa or sweeten a good-for-you Omega-3 fish like salmon, as a topping. 

Rhubarb

It’s a veggie often thought of as a fruit, sweet and tart. Pair it with strawberries or bake it alone, rhubarb is high in fiber, vitamins C and A, and magnesium. 

Fava beans

Nutty, buttery, and rich in fiber and folate, these flavorful large beans are a variety of the pea family. They’re also packed with fiber, folate, thiamine, magnesium, and phosphorus as well as manganese. Great in salad, risotto, or simply as a snack. 

Watercress

Often found in a variety of flavorful Asian dishes, this green contains plenty of calcium, vitamin A and C, and a unique, slightly peppery flavor. 

Radishes

Crisp, slightly bitter, a bit zingy, this versatile root vegetable brings plenty of vitamin C to any salad and makes a terrific garnish for fish or soups. 

Artichokes

Grilled, steamed, roasted, or served with a little garlic butter, artichokes are also excellent stuffed, or as toppings for pasta and pizza. And, this slightly sweet vegetable treat contains plenty of fiber, vitamin C, and minerals such as magnesium and folate.

Fennel

Raw in a salad or roasted to a sweet, buttery flavor, fennel can have a licorice taste, and adds extra zest to any dish. The bulb roasts easily with just a touch of olive oil; the leafy green fronds are yummy in a salad or roasted and dried. It also pairs up nicely with several of the other veggies on our healthy spring and summer list – like asparagus and leeks. 

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Along with eating healthy spring and summer vegetables for longevity, if you want to keep all your health needs covered, consider adding a healthy vitamin or supplement to your diet. At Longevity Herbs, we are happy to help you learn how to start eating healthy!

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