Eating more fruits and vegetables is one of the easiest ways to improve your health and reduce the risk of many leading causes of death. Despite powerful reasons to pack your plate with produce, 9 out of 10 adults fall short of the daily recommended number of servings a day (3 ½ to 4 ½ cups for women and 5 to 6 ½ cups for men).
If you’re going to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, you may be wondering how to pick produce so it’s ripe enough to taste good but not so ripe that you’ll quickly have to throw it in the trash. After all, you don’t want to waste your hard-earned money on food you can’t eat before it goes bad.
Here are tips to help you pick produce with confidence at your local farm stand or supermarket:
Avocados
Tomatoes
Eggplants
Berries
Mangos
Pineapples
Watermelons
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