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Put Indigenous vegetables and fruits on dinner plate Forget about eating oranges for a dose of vitamin C, plant scientist Dr Dyno Keatinge believes rosellas should be a part of your everyday diet. Dr Keatinge heads up the World Vegetable Center and says people around the world have to rethink their attitude towards vegetables and fruits. Tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, ordinary cabbage - the truth of the matter is that theyre not very nutritious at all. Things like cucumber and cabbage are essentially just water standing up, he said. Dr Keatinge is a passionate advocate for consuming indigenous vegetables and argues that greater understanding of wild-grown species could be the key to addressing malnutrition, particularly in developing countries. We at the World Vegetable Center are particularly interested in people who live on less than $2 per day. He explains lesser-known vegetables and fruits of high nutritional value, such as the vitamin C-rich rosella, should be widely promoted to increase diet diversity. Dr Keating, as reported in ABC Rural News, will highlight the case for extra investment into the research and development of indigenous vegetables at this weeks International Horticulture Congress, being held in Brisbane. Its not an issue of whether you should be eating Australian indigenous vegetables. Read the full story here: goo.gl/oJVLOe
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:16:31 +0000

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