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Salads and nutrients

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Salad nutrients

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Salads can be a good way to get your daily nutrients. However, not all salads are healthy or nutritious. It depends on what is in the salad:

If you have plenty of vegetables in the salad (the darker colored vegetables are generally healthier), then you are getting healthy, disease-fighting nutrients.
Beware of dressings, oils, or mayonnaise in your salads. These may add unhealthy levels of fat to your salad.

See heart disease and diet.

Update Date: 7/21/2003

Updated by: A.D.A.M. editorial. Previously reviewed by Monica Zangwill, M.D., M.P.H., Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network (2/1/2001).

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