Nutritious Food Recipe

Nutritious food means consuming a wide variety of whole foods, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, limiting fat and sodium intake, trying to exceed the minimum Daily Value (DV) vitamin and mineral recommendations set by the USDA. The most important factor to consider in a nutritious food recipe is the Daily Value (DV) percentage of nutrients in the foods, remember that if a food contains 20% or more of any nutrient, that food is considered high in that nutrient. Therefore always select recipes with dense nutrients.

There are several books, articles, newspapers, internet to locate the best nutritious recipes. Here are some of the sites to find recipes that both taste good and are good for you and your family.

Many of these sites offer added features of letting you specify certain ingredients, preparation time, and nutritional content. They also provide cooking tips, definitions of food terms and much more.

• Intelihealth
• Cooking Light Magazine
• Delicious Decisions
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Allrecipes.com (Healthy Living section)
• Meals For You
• www.foodandhealth.com/recipes.php
• www.quickandhealthy.net/recipes_to_try/index.html
• http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnparecipe/recipesearch.aspx
• www.mealtime.org

There are many other Internet sites you may find helpful.