A RECENT report from the Fresh Produce Consortium has suggested that just 12 per cent of us are having at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.
As well as all the other health benefits, eating plenty of fruit and vegetables probably reduces risk of cancer. This is why World Cancer Research Fund recommends people eat at least five portions a day of a variety of fruit and vegetables.
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Pastorino, a nutritionist for WCRF, has come up with her top five tips for getting more fruit and vegetables into your diet and suggests, adding fruit to your breakfast cereal to make it taster, opting for fruit as a snack, and have beans on toast as a snack. It's also a good idea to add colourful vegetables to pasta sauce. Frozen vegetables, like peas and broad beans, count too.
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