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Five a day it's easy ! All the answers to take advantage of vegetables benefits.
Prepare and enjoy vegetables that have character!
Main courses
Use your ingenuity in combining them: match the plumpness of the artichoke or aubergine with the sleekness of carrots...
Vegetables for top physical performance
Healthy eating
Vegetables have a high water content: green ones, red ones, white ones... Water is distributed naturally to cells...
Not a moment to lose!
Quick cuisine
Any vegetable served "plain" is marvelously suited for all your recipes: a mix of frozen vegetables can be...
Preparing light and even extra-light menus
Low-calorie cooking
Eat as many vegetables as you like at the start of your meal. They're very low in calories, they'll curb your hunger,...
Teach very small children to enjoy vegetables from the time they're five or six months old
Children
Vegetables are salt-free and easy to handle, so have small children try the taste of cauliflower, green beans and...
How do we preserve the beautiful colours of vegetables?
Tip
A tip from the chef: to preserve the naturally beautiful colour of your vegetables, it's important to blanch them...
Cooking vegetables in the microwave
Quick cuisine
Microwave cooking has several nutritional advantages: A short cooking time, better for preserving vitamins that are...
How can students prepare vegetables in their tiny quarters?
Quick cuisine
Do you have nothing more than a small hotplate, and your workspace has to do double duty as a desk, bedside table,...
Five a day is easy!
Tip
Five a day is easy: every form of fruit or vegetable counts. A portion of shredded carrots or a bowl of soul, a...
Eating vegetables when you're on the go
Tip
With a little organization, it's easy to have vegetables on hand ready to be savoured at any time : sliced carrots or...
Random tip
Tinned red kidney beans do not cause flatulence, because of their long cooking time. It can be a problem with beans you have cooked yourself unless you take the precaution of changing the water at the start of cooking and make sure you cook them for long enough.
Tip
Vegetables contain a range of complementary antioxidants: anthocyans, lycopene, polyphenols, lutein, etc. These slow down the ageing process and give us advance protection from degenerative illnesses.