Vegetables & Fruit

A vegetable is an edible plant or part of a plant, such as seeds, leaves, stalks and roots. The numerous vitamins, minerals and food fibres present in vegetables are extremely important to human health and well-being.

Vegetables contain nearly ninety per-cent water, virtually no fat and, usually, few carbohydrates, which keeps their calorie count very low. To provide your body with sufficient valuable vitamins, minerals and food fibre, we recommend three portions daily of 120 grammes each.

The term fruit is a collective noun for the seeds of perennial plants. Fruit provide lots of colourful veriety and healthy pleasure. They are rich in vitamins, minerals and food fibres, and contribute to people’s health and well-being.

With the exception of olives and avocados, fruit have an extremely low fat content. They also contain lots of fruit acids and carbohydrates, mostly in the form of fructose which makes them sweet.

To provide your body with sufficient valuable vitamins, minerals and food fibre, we recommend two daily portions of 120 grammes each.