Better Homes and Gardens USA - June 2015

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better | health healthy eating WASH & GO Chard lasts swiss chard up to four days in the Meet your new summer staple: fridge. Place A leafy green that’s great in salads, leaves in a sandwiches, and side dishes. plastic bag with a few by sara reistad-long airholes, and don’t wash PACKED WITH PROTECTION until you’re ready to use. Like its close relative the beet, Swiss chard is chock-full of antioxidants, including betalains, MORE FOR LESS which can help shuttle toxins out of your body (one of the reasons you see chard in so With 4 g fiber, 3 g many smoothies). It’s also rich in vitamins B, protein, and only C, and K. Just 1 cup of chard (cooked or raw) 35 calories per cup, contains three times your daily needs for bone- Swiss chard is the ideal strengthening K. You also get magnesium, iron, mix-in or side dish to potassium, and even heart healthy omega-3s. help you feel full for fewer calories. FRESH SIGNS Look for bright SOURCES: VINCENT PEDRE, M.D., FOUNDER green leaves OF PEDRE INTEGRATIVE HEALTH AND AUTHOR and sturdy (not porous) stalks. OF HAPPY GUT. DANIEL YADEGAR, CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR IN MEDICINE, ATTENDING EYE DO PHYSICIAN, WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE. One cup of cooked Swiss chard offers up double your RDA of all-important vitamin A (raw has just 44 percent; cooking may impact the A content), which helps protect your peepers from infection. It also contains lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants that help shield your eyes from age-related damage. Chard it up! PHOTO: ANDY LYONS; FOOD STYLING: GREG LUNA Swiss chard’s earthy taste with just a hint of bitterness makes it a versatile addition. Try it in: SALADS & SANDWICHES PASTA Lighten up any SMOOTHIES Mild-tasting Think of it as a stand-in pasta dish by mixing and easily blended, for spinach or kale. in 1 cup chard. Sauté the leaves are a green Toss into a bed of stalks in 1 Tbsp. olive smoothie star. (Skip the greens, or try a few oil with garlic, pepper, stronger stalks.) Use leaves on a turkey or and sea salt until about ¼ cup leaves in a grilled cheese sandwich tender. Add leaves; 16- to 24-oz. recipe. Q for a hit of crunch. cook 3 minutes more. 164 better homes and gardens | june 2015 | bhg.com

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