In the summer, I always feel like eating salad more regularly which is great for my diet as it’s is a fantastic way of fulfilling our five fruit and vegetables a week quota which studies still show could significantly impact our long term health [1], they are also a good way of increasing the variety of fruit and veg included in your diet which studies have shown can help improve the diversity and health of your gut microbiome and consequently improve many aspects of your health [2].
One way to make your salad more appetizing is to use a good salad dressing, this is a delicious vinaigrette recipe I make up in a jam jar, store in the fridge and use over a week:
1 pinch of salt & pepper
½ tsp Dijon mustard
½ tsp honey
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Below I’ve included a few of my favourite salad recipes which I sourced from an old copy of Guardian Food Magazine that I dig out every year, they have never let me down! go ahead and try them and let me know what you think.
https://www.theguardian.com/food
References
1. Wang, D.D., et al., Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality: Results From 2 Prospective Cohort Studies of US Men and Women and a Meta-Analysis of 26 Cohort Studies. Circulation, 2021. 143(17): p. 1642-1654.
2. McDonald, D., et al., American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research. mSystems, 2018. 3(3).
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