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    Vegetable types

    Apologies if this or something similar has been posted before but I found it interesting and it may help someone with choosing which veg to plant or sow. I am trying to increase the variety of veg I eat, so found this as a good guide.

    https://www.choosemyplate.gov/vegetables

    On the weekly vegetable subgroup table, if you click the + and expand it you can see what the US govt advises for weekly consumption of vegetable types. It just surprised me that red & orange veg was 5 cups for an adult woman but only 1.5 cups of dark leafy veg.
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    I just try to eat as much veg/salad (but fewer potatoes) as I can without worrying which ones I'm eating - they're all good for you.
    Makes life a whole lot easier haha

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    • #3
      I love the way Americans use cups of things but never define what constitutes a "cup". At the bottom of that page there is a table of what constitutes a cup of veg - for spinach for example, 1 cup = 1 cup cooked or 2 cups raw.

      Great, but how much is a "cup"?
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      • #4
        US cup is 240 ml aka 16 tbsp. Got some metal cups off Amazon (1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4) and they're very useful when cooking US recipes.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Penellype View Post
          I love the way Americans use cups of things but never define what constitutes a "cup". At the bottom of that page there is a table of what constitutes a cup of veg - for spinach for example, 1 cup = 1 cup cooked or 2 cups raw.

          Great, but how much is a "cup"?
          Could just as argue against recipes that ask for tablespoons or fluid ounces. A cup is a measure of volume and is 240ml

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          • #6
            Can' t say I ever measured veg by the cup.
            In our house we have all sizes of cups.
            Just use the scales.

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            • #7
              It's always nice when you're wondering roughly how much you ought to plant when all the yields are in obvious straightforward units like 'bushels per hundred-foot row'.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                I just try to eat as much veg/salad (but fewer potatoes) as I can without worrying which ones I'm eating - they're all good for you.
                Makes life a whole lot easier haha
                I am a creature of habit and can ignore quite a lot by sticking to what I know and have grown before. Trying to eat a variety of veg on the basis that different veg have different nutrients.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                  Could just as argue against recipes that ask for tablespoons or fluid ounces. A cup is a measure of volume and is 240ml
                  Does that apply to bra sizes?!!
                  I work very hard so please don't expect me to think as well!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                    Could just as argue against recipes that ask for tablespoons or fluid ounces. A cup is a measure of volume and is 240ml
                    If we're talking say, a cup of carrots, is that whole, wedged in point first and leveled across the top of the cup, or sliced crossways into discs and packed in, lengthways into batons, or grated?

                    Or do we just juice them, then the 240ml is easy...
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by mothhawk View Post
                      If we're talking say, a cup of carrots, is that whole, wedged in point first and leveled across the top of the cup, or sliced crossways into discs and packed in, lengthways into batons, or grated?

                      Or do we just juice them, then the 240ml is easy...
                      just use a one hundred and forty ninth of a bushel

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                        Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                        just use a one hundred and forty ninth of a bushel
                        Why didn't you say? 1.7 gills then. Simples.
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                          Originally posted by mothhawk View Post
                          Why didn't you say? 1.7 gills then. Simples.
                          Yeah, thats right 3.4 Jacks.
                          A tad more than an fifth of a chopin
                          A quarter quart.
                          About a eigth of a pottle.
                          Or a 16th of a gallon
                          or 64 drams
                          5.67605e-14 cubic miles
                          2.366e+14 femtroliters


                          Hope that's cleared up the ambiguity

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Jay-ell View Post
                            Yeah, thats right 3.4 Jacks.
                            A tad more than an fifth of a chopin
                            A quarter quart.
                            About a eigth of a pottle.
                            Or a 16th of a gallon
                            or 64 drams
                            5.67605e-14 cubic miles
                            2.366e+14 femtroliters


                            Hope that's cleared up the ambiguity
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