Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.
Eating an apple is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee. The natural sugar in an apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee.
Before you get out the peeler for your potatoes, you might want to reconsider since most of the nutrients in a potato reside just below the skin layer.
The cabbage contains almost as much water as watermelon. Watermelon is 92% water, cabbage is 90%.
A stalk of celery is a great diet food, since the human body uses more calories digesting celery than the 10 calories it contains.
Carrots were originally red, purple, yellow or white... in fact almost any colour than orange. Orange carrots were not produced until the 16th century, when the Dutch cross bred yellow and red carrots to create the orange carrot in honour of the the Dutch Royal Family, also known as the House of Orange.
Never store onions and potatoes together. They both produce gases that when in close proximity to each other, cause both of them to spoil much faster.
When storing potatoes, placing an apple with them will help prevent the potatoes from sprouting. The apple helps to extract the moisture from the air which directly affects sprouting. A sliced apple placed in a bag of potatoes will work better than a whole apple, but will spoil faster and will need to be replaced more often.
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