Wellness
Your Guide to Leafy Greens
This handy guide to leafy greens will help you up your daily intake. And no, you won’t have to commit.
How to Store Your Greens
As soon as you get home from the grocery, follow this plan of action to make your leaves last longer:
STEP 1: Trim
Chop off the stems and throw away any leaves that are brown or bruised.
STEP 2: Wash
For heartier leaves like kale, collards, and chard, fill your sink with cold water. Place your greens in the cold water. Swish vigorously to loosen the dirt and then scoop out the leaves. (The dirt will sink to the bottom.) For delicate leaves, like watercress or bok choy, simply rinse the leaves carefully under lightly running water.
STEP 3: Dry
Spread a single layer of leaves on a non-bleached paper towel. Roll up the towel and place it in a plastic produce bag from the grocery or a Ziploc, keeping the leaves from touching the plastic. Alternatively, you could store them in a glass container.
STEP 4: Refrigerate
Store greens in the crisper drawer, away from fruit. Certain fruits, like apples, pears, and avocados, emit ethylene, a gas that can cause your greens to spoil. Have fun experimenting with different greens and the flavor and texture they can add to your next meal, salad, soup, juice, or smoothie.
Enjoy!
Natasha Barnes
Spinach! Popeye the sailor man is my hero when I was a kid. But never liked the green stuff back then, Now all grown up i can say it tastes good and healthy too. that cartoon really knows its greens.
MICHELLE
KALE!!! It’s the best tasting superfood green leafy I have ever tasted… and of course, the magical spinach that no matter how much you put on a dish will magically disappear!
Robin Collins
popeye really know what the good stuff is right? spinach that delicious leaf with so many nutrients. i just need the forearms to grow now please hahaha
KZ Evans
great guide, been eating most of the listed greens just cause I don’t eat most vine veggies. kale and spinach are my faves right now. really great with my post workout meal.
Emma Clark
Thank you so much for sharing information about leafy greens. Leafy greens have so many benefits for our health. Keep sharing what you know.
Tiffany Watts
Good read, nice article on the benefits of the healthy greens. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Lena Dzeko
Thanks for the post. I grow most of the above, but have never tried eating the turnip greens. Will try them as they are already growing in my garden. My sister is a big fan (we live together). She always goes on about how good they are, but for no reason at all I’ve been very prejudging about it. I know, I must try it!!
Jae Medina
Good article. Thanks for sharing. Simply love all of these. Dr Marina Gafanovich did a great job laying out the infographic, clean and easy to read. Keeping this one handy. I can honestly say that I’ve learnt a lot from this. Thank you again!
Sonja Fallow
Very informative. Thank you. Love, love turnip greens and grow them every year, as well as a wide variety of heritage romaines. I’ve been lazy with the others, so will have to try a few new recipes when I get to the farmers’ market again.
Christina Norelli
Love them all. We are growing collard greens and kale in our garden this summer. We have also been harvesting dandelion greens which are supposed to be packed with nutrients. As my Daughter remarked some years ago, “Let’s throw out the beets and eat the leaves.” 🙂
Elin Hanks
I see a lot of posts like this on other sites but without references to the scientific literature that supports these claims, it is pretty much worthless. Seeing this is from a doctor, I’ve found all the information here very comforting. Thank you.