What is the normal serving size for fresh fruits and vegetables?!
What is the normal serving size for fresh fruits and vegetables?
Answers:
Actually, working with a nutritionist and was told a serving of fruits or vegetables is around 1/2 cup. We should technically be eating 9 -13 servings a day for optimum health.
So think at least three servings per meal. Example: 1 regular sized banana would be 2 servings so if you added that to a bowl of cereal and drank some orange juice you have your three servings.
At lunch have a dinner sized salad, which is probably at least a cup of veggies and 1/2 c. of a hot veggie with your meal.
Dinner could be similar. If you add 1/2 sliced orange to your salad that would be additional serving.
Eat some yogurt with cut up small apple for another serving as a snack. Or make a dip from unflavored yogurt and eat some raw veggies as a snack.
Really isn't that difficult to get in your needed fruits and veggies this way.
Hope this helped you.
Source(s):
The Book of Diana
the "recommended" serving size of fruits and vegetables is about 1 cup
Go to mypyramid.gov and enter the required information. It will tell you the serving size for each group for you personally.
the size of your fist.
About the size of a woman`s fist .
You can have up to four serving of fruits per day
One cup of vegetables three times daily
4 ounces of fruit and vegetables equals 1 serving.
Vegetables it's 1/2 cup cooked, 1 cup raw as a general rule. Fruits are typically one medium for apples, oranges, peaches, etc.. For things like berries and melon cubes it's 1 cup.