Tips to Consume more fruits and vegetables!

Utilizing these tips will help you incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your daily diet.

• Green or red pepper strips, broccoli florets, carrot slices, or cucumber add crunch to your pasta or potato salad.
• Baby carrots, shredded cabbage, or spinach leaves bring color to a green salad.
• Apple chunks, pineapples, and raisins perk up coleslaw, chicken or tuna salads.
• Oranges, grapefruit, or nectarine slices add extra flavor to any salad.
• Fruit juice, flavored vinegars, or herbs make low-fat salad dressings flavorful without adding fat or salt.
• Add sliced banana, blueberries, or raisins to cereal.

Add fresh fruit and vegetables to foods you already eat — like berries and bananas to yogurt and cereal; vegetables to pasta and pizza; and lettuce, tomato and onion to sandwiches.

Put some punch into your party by blending 100 percent fruit juices to create a refreshing new juice. Try mixing pineapple, orange, grapefruit, or other fruit juices. Add a slice of lemon or lime as a garnish.