Definition of green vegetable
: a vegetable whose foliage or foliage-bearing stalks are the chief edible part
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Beating myself up — even if only for a moment — for being a quarter-cup shy of my weekly vegetable goal and eating more green vegetables than I was supposed to is a recipe for disaster.
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Try dipping the green vegetable into chocolate and passing it as a dessert.
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Try dipping the green vegetable into chocolate and passing it as a dessert.
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Some dark green vegetables like spinach, kale, mustard greens and broccoli contain calcium but in a smaller amount than dairy products.
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Moran adds sliced potato, couscous or rice plus carrot slices and green vegetables that are uniform in size.
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Another signature is West Indies Pepper Pot Soup, a common Colonial-era dish imported from the Caribbean, made with beef, green vegetables and taro root.
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Leafy green vegetables, nuts, legumes and whole grains are good sources of magnesium; fish, chicken and beef also contain magnesium.
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Staples of the keto diet are fish, meat, eggs, dairy, oils, and green vegetables.
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First Known Use of green vegetable
1826
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