Menu Planning Solutions for Assisted Living

Did you use the whole onion?

You can store your onions for up to six months without freezing by wrapping your onions separately in paper towels or foil and storing in your refrigerator.

Vitamin C Power House

If you guessed that 1 cup of red pepper has the most Vitamin C, you are right. It has twice as much as an orange! After the Pepper, is Broccoli, then the delicious, juicy orange. Whether you eat a pepper, broccoli, or an orange, eating the daily recommended amount of fruits and vegetables will have you well on your way to health and wellness!

Vitamin C and the common cold

Around 1970 Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling published a book about cold prevention using mega doses of Vitamin C. While widely studied and somewhat inconclusive, we still need Vitamin C in our daily diet. Without looking it up, what contains more Vitamin C: an orange, 1 cup of red pepper, or 1 cup of broccoli? *Answer coming next week*