Is it necessary to eat leafy green vegetables if I'm getting the nutrients typical to leafy greens from elsewhere? If I have vitamin K, A, C, and iron all covered even without a multivitamin, is it still critical to eat them?
I only ask because my green veggies always seem to spoil before I can eat them all, and it just feels like a waste sometimes. I'd still buy them if it wasn't as critical with everything else I eat, I'd just buy less.
>Is it necessary to eat leafy green vegetables
No
Those are the kind of questions you should ask a professional figure.
Not a bunch of uncultured apes
They don't even have most micros in the animal form that we metabolize. They have K2 rather than K3, beta carotene rather than Vit A and these both have low conversion rates with diminishing returns as intake is increased in a meal, and these are fat soluble, so if you have no saturated fat in the meal, the conversion rates are halved. Plus they have oxalates bound to the calcium, iron and magnesium, making those minerals unavailable and as the oxalates are pissed out, it bounds to small amounts of stored minerals in the body, taking them with it. Fiber isn't good for the body either and is unnecessary.
No. Only meat is necessary.
imagine getting nutrition advice from a flat earther that stares into the sun all day
dey taste gud
Just eat liver, faggot.
>I only ask because my green veggies always seem to spoil before I can eat them all, and it just feels like a waste sometimes
How? I buy 8 pounds of broccoli and 2 pounds of spinach every week (along with my normal meats, dairy, etc) and it doesn't go bad.
>don't eat fibre
I'm not sure. I usually buy 3 lbs of baby spinach for 2 weeks, usually all wilty by day 10-11 in the fridge crisper drawer.
so buy less and buy it weekly. broccoli will be fine much longer. also check your fridge temp
Whole foods organic frozen broccoli
Consider pral values too. All them amino acids and fatty acids are acidy, eat plenty of veg to become baseboy.
I suppose I might have to do that then. I hate going shopping though, I shop at costco just so I can get everything in one go for two weeks.
Wait, can you freeze raw spinach and defrost it without any problem? I could freeze half of it and defrost it after the first half is done.
Full of oxalates that will give you renal calculi. Just eat liver. Its natures multivitamin.
Eat your vegetables you fucking slob.
stop eating vegetables and start sungazing. you'll thank me later
Broccoli tends to last long (at least a week if it's fresh, forever if frozen). Broccoli is basically in the same subgroup as spinach, kale, etc. Same with brussell sprouts and asparagus, though those don't last as long.
I usually buy the "mixed baby greens" at the grocery store and make salads with it.
>fiber isn't good for the body anyway
I'm embarrassed for having believed this post for as long as I did.
>the nutrients typical to leafy greens from elsewhere
It's unlikely you're getting the flavonoids present in green veg elsewhere or in the same combinations or for the same price. Those deplete as they get older so you probably want to buy them more regularly and eat them close to or on the day of purchase… especially since as the name suggests they make them taste better the more of them are in foods. They counteract and make beneficial some unfit things (like smoking) and without them you need to do things that are unfit (like drinking wine or eating St John's wort) to replace their benefits. You don't need to eat that much of them to get the benefits, and you should eat a wider range than just broccoli and spinach (green beans for instance are the easiest way to get miquelianin).
There's not enough science out there yet on flavonoids to be conclusive (not least because every time a study shows one of them reversed cancer risk only in smokers they have to shut it down rather than tell people to eat cucumbers with a cigarette) but most of it points towards they help us immensely more efficiently than just vitamins. The problem is more finding them fresh and in variety, rather than the amount you need to eat of them which is rather small. Buying them in bulk is not efficient because you'll just let them get old and their nutrient profile will change within a few days.
>tl:dr- vary your diet more and green things good