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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist
what's a serving anyway? How many can you eat in a day I'm thinking....so here's some info, and servings are smaller than I thought...
The National Cancer Institute defines a serving as:
One medium-sized fruit (such as apples, oranges, bananas, pears)
1/2 cup of raw, cooked, canned or frozen fruits or vegetables
3/4 cup (6 oz.) of 100% fruit or vegetable juice
1/2 cup cut-up fruit
1/2 cup cooked or canned legumes (such as beans and peas)
1 cup of raw, leafy vegetables (such as lettuce and spinach)
1/4 cup dried fruit (such as raisins, apricots, mango)
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I guess an organization such as NCI can make a serving whatever they want it to be. But the article I referred to stated a 1/2 cup for everything.
I finally measured, for the first time, how many 1/2 cup servings are in my big lunchtime salad. I'll list it in case anyone wants to try it:
Artisan lettuce......................3 servings
Celery.................................1.5
Cooked carrots.......................1
Cooked broccoli.......................1
Chopped raw onion..................1/2 serving
Mushrooms.............................1
Cucumber...............................1
Cut up tomato..........................1
Mixture of beans & amaranth.....1 cup
That's a total of ten servings of vegetables whereas I had estimated 8 in my opening post.