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Article: Beyond soup: beans, peas and lentils serve up great nutrition. (Nutrition Comparison).
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Legumes--beans, peas and lentils--are among the world's most popular foods and among the best nutrition bargains in your supermarket. But if you eat them only in soups, it's time to think outside the can. Besides their winning nutrition profiles, legumes offer unmatched versatility in recipes and cost less than 25 cents a serving.
Nutrition Arsenal. Legumes--especially lentils--are excellent sources of protein and one of the best natural sources of the B vitamin folate. One cup of lentils or black-eyed peas provides nearly 90% of the recommended daily intake of folate, which is critical for keeping homocysteine levels low, and heading off heart disease. Beans and lentils ...
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