Vegetables

Color Benefits

100

This color protects your heart and makes is strong

What is Red

200

This color strengthens your bones and teeth

What is Green

300

This color helps your memory

What is blue or purple

400

This color helps your sight and keeps your skin healthy

What is orange

500

This color can help prevent strokes and can lower your cholesterol

What is White

Name that Vegetable

100

This vegetable is high in lycopene and can help reduce cardiovascular disease. Although technically a fruit, most people think this is a vegetable. This is great in pasta and on pizza, and some people may pronounce this vegetable differently.

What is a Tomato

200

Mark Twain called this vegetable "...a cabbage with a college education". It is white and has a sister vegetable that looks like a little tree.

What is Cauliflower

300

This vegetable is the number one vegetable crop in the U.S. It is very high in potassium and can grow "eyes". This vegetable is usually eaten in a very unhealthy form.

What is a Potato

400

This vegetable is good for your eyesight. It is grown in the ground and a favorite of rabbits.

What is a Carrot

500

This vegetable is green and prickly. You can eat its leaves, and it contains a heart. Some people use this vegetable to treat snake bites.

What is an Artichoke

Vitamin Benefits

100

Great for the eyes, skin, hair and nails. This is usually found in almost all vegetables

What is Vitamin A

200

This is good for healing and preventing illness. Some people use this to treat colds. Most vegetables and all fruits contain this.

What is Vitamin C

300

Great for bones and teeth.

What is Calcium

400

This helps transport oxygen through our bodies and is essential for physical fitness. This also helps us grow properly.

What is Iron

500

This helps red blood cells mature and helps make DNA. This is found in green leafy vegetables and fortified cereals.

What is folate